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On the Sayings Sayings of Abba Hilarion

Summary by Purify·Written by Purify, not St. Hilarion the Great's words.

Two sayings that name Abba Hilarion, from the Syriac collection of the sayings of the Desert Fathers, verbatim in the public-domain English of E. A. Wallis Budge, The Paradise of the Holy Fathers (1907), vol. 2. In the first he comes to St. Antony on his mountain; in the second he is asked how a monk should bear seeing others go back to the world. Budge's Abbâ is printed Abba.

Star of light, pillar of light

The next chapter opens when you reach the end.

Source: E. A. Wallis Budge, The Paradise or Garden of the Holy Fathers, vol. 2 (London: Chatto & Windus, 1907), translated from the Syriac, Book II, Questions and Answers on the Rule of Life of the Holy Men, sayings 112 (p. 177) and 212 (pp. 198 to 199). Public domain. Read word for word in two archive.org scans of the 1907 edition (paradiseorgarden02anan, paradiseorgarde02budggoog), in Wikisource's transcription and on the page; the printer's running quotation marks are removed and Budge's Abbâ is printed Abba. The note and the titles are ours.