"While still living in the palace, Abba Arsenius prayed to God in these words, "Lord, lead me in the way of salvation." And a voice came saying to him, "Arsenius, flee from men and you will be saved.""
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Arsenius the Great, Saying 1, Sayings of the Desert Fathers (trans. Benedict Ward, 1975)
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