X (46)
Non in tumultu exibitis nec in fuga properabitis, praecedet enim
vos Dominus et congregabit vos Deus Israel.
You shall not go out in a tumult, neither shall you make haste by flight: for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will gather you together.
Isa.52:12
Isaac of Neneveh
Sweep your cell clean of everything superfluous for this will lead
you to abstinence, however unwillingly. Scarcity of all things teaches
a man to be abstinent.
( Early Fathers from Philokaliap. 235)
Kadloubovsky, E.
and Palmer, G.E.H., translators. Early Fathers from the Philokalia. London: Faber and
Faber Limited, 1954
If you do not strive you will not find & if you do not
knock at he door with ardor & constantly keep vigil before it, you
will not be heard.
EFP. 235