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Friday, December 29, 2017
No More Laughing, No More Fun
Shenoute, Monastic Rules, number 564, tr. Bentley Layton, The Canons of Our Fathers: Monastic Rules of Shenoute (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), p. 331: