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Thursday October 16 2025, 01H44
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and they said to him, 'We cannot do this. ' Abba Anthony said to them, ' If you cannot turn the other cheek, continue [to be smitten] on the one cheek'; and they said to him, 'And this we cannot do.' The old man said to them, 'If you cannot do even this, do not pay back blows in return for the smiting which you have received'; and they said, 'We cannot even do this.' Then the old man said unto his disciples, 'Make then for the brothers a little boiled food, for they are ill '; and he said to them, ' If you cannot do this, and you are unable to do the other things, prayers are necessary forthwith.'
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