is a proof of his virtue, and that his soul was dear to God. For
Antony became known not by writings, not from the wisdom that is
from without, not by any art, but by piety alone; and that this was
the gift of God, none can deny. For how as far as Spain, as Gaul,
as Rome, as Africa, could he have been heard, hidden as he was in a
mountain, if it had not been for God, who makes known his own men
everywhere, and who had promised Antony this from the beginning?
For even if they do their deeds in secret, and wish to be concealed,
yet the Lord shows them as lights to all, that so those who hear of
them may know that the commandments suffice to put men in the right
way, and may grow zealous of the path of virtue.

Read then these things to the other brethren, that they may learn
what the life of monks should be, and may believe that the Lord
Jesus Christ our Saviour will glorify those who glorify him, and
that those who serve him to the end he will not only bring to the
kingdom of heaven, but that even if on earth they hide themselves
and strive to get out of the way, he will make them manifest and
celebrated everywhere, for the sake of their own virtue, and for the
benefit of others. But if need be, read this also to the heathens,
that even thus they may learn that our Lord Jesus Christ is not only
Lord and the Son of God, but that those who truly serve him, and
believe piously on him, not only prove that those daemons whom the
Greeks think are gods to be no gods, but even tread them under foot,
and chase them out as deceivers and corrupters of men, through Jesus
Christ our Lord, to whom be glory and honour for ever and ever.
Amen.


Thus ends this strange story. What we are to think of the miracles