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Chapter XVI.; original source section: Chapter 16; original book/conference: XVIII. Conference of Abbot Piamun.

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Date uncertain | John Cassian

By this discourse the blessed Piamun excited still more keenly our desire in which we had begun to be promoted from the infant school of the Cœnobium to the second standard of the anchorites’ life. For it was under his instruction that we made our first start in solitary living, the knowledge of which we afterwards followed up more thoroughly in Scete.

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