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Chapter I. Of the training of those who renounce this world, and of the way in which those are taught among the monks of Tabenna and the Egyptians who are received into the monasteries.
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Chapter II. Of the way in which among them men remain in the monasteries even to extreme old age.iv.iii.iv.ii
Chapter III. Of the ordeal by which one who is to be received in the monastery is tested.iv.iii.iv.iii
Chapter IV. The reason why those who are received in the monastery are not allowed to bring anything in with them.iv.iii.iv.iv
Chapter V. The reason why those who give up the world, when they are received in the monasteries, must lay aside their own clothes and be clothed in others by the Abbot.iv.iii.iv.v
Chapter VI. The reason why the clothes of the renunciants with which they joined the monastery are preserved by the steward.iv.iii.iv.vi
Chapter VII. The reason why those who are admitted to a monastery are not permitted to mix at once with the congregation of the brethren, but are first committed to the guest house.iv.iii.iv.vii
Chapter VIII. Of the practices in which the juniors are first exercised that they may become proficient in overcoming all their desires.iv.iii.iv.viii
Chapter IX. The reason why the juniors are enjoined not to keep back any of their thoughts from the senior.iv.iii.iv.ix
Chapter X. How thorough is the obedience of the juniors even in those things which are matters of common necessity.iv.iii.iv.x
Chapter XI. The kind of food which is considered the greater delicacy by them.iv.iii.iv.xi
Chapter XII. How they leave off every kind of work at the sound of some one knocking at the door, in their eagerness to answer at once.iv.iii.iv.xii
Chapter XIII. How wrong it is considered for any one to say that anything, however trifling, is his own.iv.iii.iv.xiii
Chapter XIV. How, even if a large sum of money is amassed by the labour of each, still no one may venture to exceed the moderate limit of what is appointed as adequate.iv.iii.iv.xiv
Chapter XV. Of the excessive desire of possession among us.iv.iii.iv.xv
Chapter XVI. On the rules for various rebukes.iv.iii.iv.xvi
Chapter XVII. Of those who introduced the plan that the holy Lessons should be read in the Cœnobia while the brethren are eating, and of the strict silence which is kept among the Egyptians.iv.iii.iv.xvii
Chapter XVIII. How it is against the rule for any one to take anything to eat or drink except at the common table.iv.iii.iv.xviii
Chapter XIX. How throughout Palestine and Mesopotamia a daily service is undertaken by the brethren.iv.iii.iv.xix
Chapter XX. Of the three lentil beans which the Steward found.iv.iii.iv.xx
Chapter XXI. Of the spontaneous service of some of the brethren.iv.iii.iv.xxi
Chapter XXII. The system of the Egyptians, which is appointed for the daily service of the brethren.iv.iii.iv.xxii
Chapter XXIII. The obedience of Abbot John by which he was exalted even to the grace of prophecy.iv.iii.iv.xxiii
Chapter XXIV. Of the dry stick which, at the bidding of his senior, Abbot John kept on watering as if it would grow.iv.iii.iv.xxiv
Chapter XXV. Of the unique vase of oil thrown away by Abbot John at his senior's command.iv.iii.iv.xxv
Chapter XXVI. How Abbot John obeyed his senior by trying to roll a huge stone, which a large number of men were unable to move.iv.iii.iv.xxvi
Chapter XXVII. Of the humility and obedience of Abbot Patermucius, which he did not hesitate to make perfect by throwing his little boy into the river at the command of his senior.iv.iii.iv.xxvii
Chapter XXVIII. How it was revealed to the Abbot concerning Patermucius that he had done the deed of Abraham; and how when the same Abbot died, Patermucius succeeded to the charge of the monastery.iv.iii.iv.xxviii
Chapter XXIX. Of the obedience of a brother who at the Abbot's bidding carried about in public ten baskets and sold them by retail.iv.iii.iv.xxix
Chapter XXX. Of the humility of Abbot Pinufius, who left a very famous Cœnobium over which he presided as Presbyter, and out of the love of subjection sought a distant monastery where he could be received as a novice.iv.iii.iv.xxx
Chapter XXXI. How when Abbot Pinufius was brought back to his monastery he stayed there for a little while and then fled again into the regions of Syrian Palestine.iv.iii.iv.xxxi
Chapter XXXII. The charge which the same Abbot Pinufius gave to a brother whom he admitted into his monastery in our presence.iv.iii.iv.xxxii
Chapter XXXIII. How it is that, just as a great reward is due to the monk who labours according to the regulations of the fathers, so likewise punishment must he inflicted on an idle one; and therefore no one should be admitted into a monastery too easily.iv.iii.iv.xxxiii
Chapter XXXIV. Of the way in which our renunciation is nothing but mortification and the image of the Crucified.iv.iii.iv.xxxiv
Chapter XXXV. How the fear of the Lord is our cross.iv.iii.iv.xxxv
Chapter XXXVI. How our renunciation of the world is of no use if we are again entangled in those things which we have renounced.iv.iii.iv.xxxvi
Chapter XXXVII. How the devil always lies in wait for our end, and how we ought continually to watch his head.iv.iii.iv.xxxvii
Chapter XXXVIII. Of the renunciant's preparation against temptation, and of the few who are worthy of imitation.iv.iii.iv.xxxviii
Chapter XXXIX. Of the way in which we shall mount towards perfection, whereby we may afterwards ascend from the fear of God up to love.iv.iii.iv.xxxix
Chapter XL. That the monk should seek for examples of perfection not from many instances but from one or a very few.iv.iii.iv.xl
Chapter XLI. The appearance of what infirmities one who lives in a Cœnobium ought to exhibit.iv.iii.iv.xli
Chapter XLII. How a monk should not look for the blessing of patience in his own case as a result of the virtue of others, but rather as a consequence of his own longsuffering.iv.iii.iv.xlii
Chapter XLIII. Recapitulation of the explanation how a monk can mount up towards perfection.iv.iii.iv.xliii