zeal for improvement, and comfort through their faith in each other.
And he too rejoiced, seeing the willingness of the monks, and his
sister grown old in maidenhood, and herself the leader of other
virgins. And so after certain days he went back again to the
mountain.

And after that many came to him; and others who suffered dared also
to come. Now to all the monks who came to him he gave continually
this command: To trust in the Lord and love him, and to keep
themselves from foul thoughts and fleshly pleasures; and, as is
written in the Parables, not to be deceived by fulness of bread; and
to avoid vainglory; and to pray continually; and to sing before
sleep and after sleep; and to lay by in their hearts the commandment
of Scripture; and to remember the works of the saints, in order to
have their souls attuned to emulate them. But especially he
counselled them to meditate continually on the Apostle's saying,
"Let not the sun go down upon your wrath;" and this he said was
spoken of all commandments in common, in order that not on wrath
alone, but on every other sin, the sun should never go down; for it
was noble and necessary that the sun should never condemn us for a
baseness by day, nor the moon for a sin or even a thought by night;
therefore, in order that that which is noble may be preserved in us,
it was good to hear and to keep what the Apostle commanded: for he
said: "Judge yourselves, and prove yourselves." Let each then take
account with himself, day by day, of his daily and nightly deeds;
and if he has not sinned, let him not boast, but let him endure in
what is good and not be negligent, neither condemn his neighbour,
neither justify himself, as said the blessed Apostle Paul, until the
Lord comes who searches secret things. For we often deceive
ourselves in what we do, and we indeed know not: but the Lord