{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/211/2110406.htm","path":"chr/ecf/211/2110406.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/211/2110406.htm","text":"Of the solution of a question which Abbot Theodore obtained by prayer.\nWe knew also Abbot Theodore, 869 a man gifted with the utmost holiness and with perfect knowledge not only in practical life, but also in understanding the Scriptures, which he had not acquired so much by study and reading, or worldly education, as by purity of heart alone: since he could with difficulty understand and speak but a very few words of the Greek language. This man when he was seeking an explanation of some most difficult question, continued without ceasing for seven days and nights in prayer until he discovered by a revelation from the Lord the solution of the question propounded.\nNothing further is known for certain of this Theodore. He may be the author of the VIth of the Conferences; but must be carefully distinguished from his more celebrated namesake, the friend of Pachomius, and third Abbot of Tabenna, who died before Cassian\u2019s visit to Egypt.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XI: The Works of John Cassian.: Chapter XXXIII. Of the solution of a question which Abbot Theodore obtained by prayer.","type":"page"}