"A brother asked an elder and said to him: ‘Do you wish me to meditate on what people read in the Scriptures when I go to church?’ The elder said to him: ‘You are going to the source of life.’"

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ProverbsChristian textsMonasticismDesert Fathers
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p. 149, Ethiopic sayings no. 13 (translated by Witold Witakowski from: Collectio monastica, CSCO 238–9, Scriptores Aethiopici 45–6, Louvain, 1963)