do you want? As I see, what you want is prayer. That will heal
your weakness."

Quoth Antony, "He who would be free from his sins must be so by
weeping and mourning; and he who would be built up in virtue must be
built up by tears."

Quoth Antony, "When the stomach is full of meat, forthwith the great
vices bubble out, according to that which the Saviour says: 'That
which entereth into the mouth defileth not a man; but that which
cometh out of the heart sinks a man in destruction.'"

[This may be a somewhat paradoxical application of the text: but
the last anecdote of Antony which I shall quote is full of wisdom
and humanity.]

A monk came from Alexandria, Eulogius by name, bringing with him a
man afflicted with elephantiasis. Now Eulogius had been a scholar,
learned, and rich, and had given away all he had save a very little,
which he kept because he could not work with his own hands.

And he told Antony how he had found that wretched man lying in the
street fifteen years before, having lost then nearly every member
save his tongue, and how he had taken him home to his cell, nursed
him, bathed him, physicked him, fed him; and how the man had
returned him nothing save slanders, curses, and insults; how he had
insisted on having meat, and had had it; and on going out in public,
and had company brought to him; and how he had at last demanded to
be put down again whence he had been taken, always cursing and
slandering. And now Eulogius could bear the man no longer, and was