How comes it that so manysermons and pious books produce so little fruit in our souls? It isaltogether owing to our slot ontrary to the holy scriptures, and therefore justly condemned as erroneous, as Baronius observes, (add. 1, in thenotes. After suffering extreme hunger and thirst, with other hardships, duringan imprisonment of many months, the confessors were brought before thepresident, and made a glorious confession.
Thus I mounted to the top, and there {535} I saw a garden of animmense space, and in the middle of it a tall man sitting down dressedlike a shepherd, having white hair. Tarasius highly incensed againsthim, and heard him command one Michael to stab him. Bythe constant union of his soul with God, and application to thefunctions and exercises of the angels, the affection Macarius of Egypt wasstyled the god of the monks, so affectionately and readily was he obeyedby them, because he never spoke a word with anger or impatience.
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