He not only gave much away in alms, butwas seldom without some poor person at his table, and took a pleasure inserving such, or rather Jesus Christ in their persons, with his ownhands. The fourth tome contains sixty-seven homilies on Genesis, which werepreached at Antioch during Lent, some year later than 386. He was milking his sheep, surroundedwith many thousands of persons clad in white. Benoit, in 4to.
Like a true disciple ofSaint Cyprian, and a zealous lover of discipline, he exhorted those thathad fallen not to be over hasty, but fully to accomplish their penance. what she ought to say: but now it is to be feared that youngwomen never think so little as when they are entertained with flattery. This we observe in other saints, and if it be a fault, we might more justly censure on this account the elegant epistles of St. 151, 157, and Le Fevre, Calend.
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