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FROM the canonical system of Psalms and prayers which ought to be
observed in the daily services throughout the monasteries, we pass, in the
due course of our narrative, to the training. of one who renounces this
world endeavouring first, as well as we can, to embrace, in a short
account, the terms on which those who desire to turn to the Lord can be
received in the monasteries; adding some things from the rule of the
Egyptians, some from that of the monks of Tabenna, whose monastery in
the Thebaid is better filled as regards numbers, as it is stricter in the
rigour of its system, than all others, for there are in it more than five
thousand brethren under the rule of one Abbot; and the obedience with which
the whole number of monks is at all times subject to one Elder is what no
one among us would render to another even for a short time, or would demand
from him.
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