The reputation of his sanctity raised him to the patriarchalchair of Alexandria about the year 605, at which time he was upwards offifty years of age. He sent herword to spare herself the trouble, and to prepare herself for death; forGod summoned her before his tribunal. You see something? She pulled his hand forward until it hit rock. Desirous to serve God with his whole heart, heforsook the world in the flower of his age, and spent upwards of sixtyyears in the deserts in the exercise of fervent penance andcontemplation.
He stood up abruptly. For this purpose, he enactedsevere, but necessary laws, for the strict administration of justice,and repressed the violence and tyranny of the great, without respect ofpersons. men were a uniform and steady practice of piety, civil history wouldbe almost reduced to empty dates. Most were lichen-clad, moss-grown, buried in soil and ground cover.
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