Abba Paphnutius said, “When I was walking along the road, I happened to lose my way because of the fog; and finding myself near a village, I saw some people who were committing fornication. I stood still then, praying for my sins. Then behold, an angel came, holding a sword and he said to me, ‘Paphnutius, all those who judge their brothers perish by this sword, but because you have not judged, but have humbled yourself before God, saying that you have sinned, your name is written in the book of the living!’”
- The Desert Christian: Sayings of the Desert Fathers,
Benedicta Ward (New York: Macmillan Publishers, 1980), p. 202.
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