| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Recalling the sixth verse of Psalm 91, the desert fathers wished to guard against ???the sickness that lays waste at mid-day.??? Evagrius of Pontus, a fourth-century monk, is one of the earliest sources of information about the desert monastic movement, and he reports that gluttony, avarice, anger, and other vices threaten monastic life.
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