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And that you may the more easily arrive at this, the examples of the
perfect life of one dwelling in the congregation, which you may imitate,
should be sought from a very few or indeed from one or two only and not
from too many. For apart from the fact that a life which is tested and
refined and purified is only to be found in a few, there is this also to be
gained, viz.: that a man is more thoroughly instructed and formed by the
example of some one, towards the perfection which he sets before him, viz.:
that of the Coenobite life.
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