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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XI: The Works of John Cassian.: 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.

John CassianNicene and Post-Nicene FathersVincent of Lerins

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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. And so, sitting in their cells and devoting their energies equally to work and to meditation, when they hear the sound of some one knocking at the door and striking on the cells of each, summoning them to prayer or some work, every one eagerly dashes out from his cell, so that one who is practising the writer’s art, although he may have just begun to form a letter, does not…

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XI: The Works of John Cassian.: 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.

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