As soon as Alypius was gone, St. Benedict, the founder. 141,) and by Nilus, (ep. r, on his religion, which he scandalized, and on his own soul;which sweetness converted the other, so that he became an example ofvirtue.
The king then wenthimself, but was no sooner come into the presence of the holy abbot, buthe threw himself on the ground and continued prostrate till the saint,going to him, obliged him to rise. ) Christ by his flesh, hides in us life anda seed of immortality, which destroys in us all corruption, (Ibid. We should never cease weeping,if we considered how much sin reigns among men. This divine virtueburned so warmly in his heart, as to be transfused through his features,over which it spread a superhuman and celestial glow, and gave to hisdiscourse a melting tenderness.
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