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DISCOURSES OF EXHORTATION

TO THE MONKS OF EGYPT

Introductory Note

For this series of fifty *Exhortations* see DS iv (1960) col. 812. They were known to St Photios (*Bibliotheca* 196, PG 103:657-660). In Assemani they are in II/72f-186c. In their present form they are certainly not authentic. There is some internal evidence that they are Egyptian in origin. In the notes O = Thwaites’s edition (Oxford 1709), R = Assemani’s (Rome 1743) and T = Phrantzolas’ (Thessaloniki 1990).