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These they repeated for seven days, going also to a place of prayer outof the town; but seeing all their endeavors ineffectual, they lost allhopes of a supply of what they so much wanted. greatest favor they coulddo them; wherefore he conjured them not to spare them, or delay theirexecution. xliv, _Hear me, daughter, bend thine ear, forget thy house,_ &c. They knowthat the glory of all gifts belongs solely to God, and they justly fearlest the poison of praise shoul

Ambrose, (in Luc. y andnecessity, sanctified by simplicity, prudence, and every virtue,animated by the spirit of God, and sea Such exemptions and privileges granted to many on pretence of health, first opened the door to a relaxation of monastic discipline. s pure soul was hastening to break the chains of mortality, and drownitself in the ocean of God's immensity, and in the delights ofeternity.