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Arsisius remembers him The Life of St. Pachomius

Editor's note

Palladius of Helenopolis lived among the monks of Egypt as a young man and wrote his Lausiac History about the year 420. At Nitria he heard of Pachomius from Arsisius, one of the old men there who had known St. Antony.

Palladius, The Lausiac History VII.6, tr. W. K. Lowther Clarke (1918)

Another hand·Recorded by Palladius of Helenopolis. Verbatim, but not St. Pachomius the Great's words.

[6] This Arsisius and many other old men with him whom we saw were contemporaries of the blessed Antony. Some among them, they told me, had also known Amoun of Nitria, whose soul Antony saw being taken up and conducted to heaven hy angels. Arsisius used to say that he also knew Pachomius of Tabennisi, a prophet and archimandrite over 3000 men, of whom I shall speak later.

Notes

  • The 1918 page prints “hy angels” for “by angels”. It is kept as printed.

The rule of the angel

The next chapter opens when you reach the end.

Source: Palladius of Helenopolis, The Lausiac History, in the public-domain English of W. K. Lowther Clarke (The Lausiac History of Palladius, London: SPCK, and New York: Macmillan, 1918), read word for word against three archive.org scans of that printing (lausiachistoryof00palluoft, lausiachistoryof002802mbp, in.ernet.dli.2015.157791) and the tertullian.org transcription; where the transcription differed from the page, the page was followed. The translator's footnotes are left out. Chapters VII.6, XXXII, XXXIII and XVIII.12 to 16. The short introductions above each passage, their titles and the notes beside them are ours.