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BUT it is now time to follow out the plan of the promised discourse. So
then when Abbot Theonas had come to visit us in our cell during
Eastertide after Evensong was over we sat for a little while on the
ground and began diligently to consider why they were so very careful that
no one should during the whole fifty days either bend his knees in
prayer or venture to fast till the ninth hour, and we made our inquiry
the more earnestly because we had never seen this custom so carefully
observed in the monasteries of Syria.
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