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AGAIN, when some others were anxious to be edified by the example of his
obedience, the elder called him and said: "John, run and roll that stone
hither as quickly as possible;" and he forthwith, applying now his neck,
and now his whole body, tried with all his might and main to roll an
enormous stone which a great crowd of men would not be able to move, so
that not only were his clothes saturated with sweat from his limbs, but the
stone itself was wetted by his neck; in this too never weighing the
impossibility of the command and deed, out of reverence for the old man
and the unfeigned simplicity of his service, as he believed implicitly that
the old man could not command him to do anything vain or without reason.
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