it shall pass over, and nothing shall be impossible to you;" and
again, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, if ye shall ask my Father in
my name, he shall give it you. Ask, and ye shall receive." And he
himself it is who said to his disciples and to all who believe in
him, "Heal the sick, cast out devils; freely ye have received,
freely give." And certainly Antony did not heal by his own
authority, but by praying and calling on Christ; so that it was
plain to all that it was not he who did it, but the Lord, who
through Antony showed love to men, and healed the sufferers. But
Antony's part was only the prayer and the training, for the sake
whereof, sitting in the mountain, he rejoiced in the sight of divine
things, and grieved when he was tormented by many, and dragged to
the outer mountain.

For all the magistrates asked him to come down from the mountain,
because it was impossible for them to go in thither to him on
account of the litigants who followed him; so they begged him to
come, that they might only behold him. And when he declined they
insisted, and even sent in to him prisoners under the charge of
soldiers, that at least on their account he might come down. So
being forced by necessity, and seeing them lamenting, he came to the
outer mountain. And his labour this time too was profitable to
many, and his coming for their good. To the magistrates, too, he
was of use, counselling them to prefer justice to all things, and to
fear God, and to know that with what judgment they judged they
should be judged in turn. But he loved best of all his life in the
mountain. Once again, when he was compelled in the same way to
leave it, by those who were in want, and by the general of the
soldiers, who entreated him earnestly, he came down, and having
spoken to them somewhat of the things which conduced to salvation,