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WE knew also Abbot Theodore, 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.
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