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Tuesday February 07 2023, 19H45
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Abba Ammon used to say, 'I said to Abba Poemen, If I go to my neighbour's cell, or he comes to mine concerning any matter whatsoever, are we two to be ashamed to speak, lest some alien subject of discourse appear between us?' The old man said to him, 'You will do well, for youth has need of care and watchfulness.' And I said to him, 'What do the old men do?' And he said to me, 'The old men have been skilled, and have had experience, and they have arrived at the measure for speech, for in them there is nothing- alien which they can speak with the mouth. ' And I said to him, 'And supposing that I have the necessity to talk with a neighbour, would you that I should speak with the words of the Scriptures, or with the words of the old men?' And he said to me, ' If you are not able to hold your peace it is better for you to use the speech of the old men rather than that of the Scriptures, for there is danger in a man employing the speech of the Scriptures.' '
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