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BUT the second person whom we mentioned as living in this desert,
although he was also a remarkable and striking man, yet, in order to punish
a single word, to which in a dispute with Abbot Macarius, he had given
utterance somewhat too sharply, as he was anticipated in some opinion, he
was instantly delivered to so dreadful a demon that he filled his mouth
with filth which he supplied, and the Lord showed by the quickness of
his cure, and the author of his healing, that He had brought this scourge
upon him to purify him, that there might not remain in him any stain from
his momentary error: for as soon as Abbot Macarius committed himself to
prayer, quicker than a word the evil spirit tied away from him and
departed.
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