The Fathers Speak WU78282B4 This Coptic text with translation

This Coptic text with translation and notes will be useful to any student of the language or history of medieval Egypt

since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses

but an invitation to enter into the way

more than seventy percent of which is composed of material not found in the Apophthegmata

The Fathers Speak WU78282B4 This Coptic text with translation"Sugg. Donation" As Christians of the twenty first century study the Fathers of the Church, their writings (often in an unreadable English produced by clumsy translations) appear to us as foreboding, verbose, and somewhat closed within a world where theological contemplation replaces everyday reality. The Greek Fathers in particular have this reputation among students because they wrote relatively little about themselves, about the details of their