"Abba Elijah was asked: ‘How will we be saved these days?’ He replied: ‘We will be saved through each of us having no regard for himself.’"
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p. 127, Coptic sayings no. 25 (translated by Tim Vivian from: Marius Chaîne, Le manuscrit de la version copte en dialecte sahidique des Apophthegmata patrum, texte copte et traduction française, Bibliothèque d’études coptes 6, Cairo: L’Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, 1970. Saying #271.)
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