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GERMANUS: The ground of that hurtful modesty, through which we
endeavour to hide bad thoughts, is especially owing to this reason; viz.,
that we have heard of a superior of the Elders in the region of Syria, as
it was believed, who, when one of the brethren had laid bare his thoughts
to him in a genuine confession, was afterwards extremely indignant and
severely chid him for them. Whence it results that while we press them upon
our selves and are ashamed to make them known to the Elders, we cannot
obtain the remedies that would heal them.
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