Conferences XI–XVII, Conference XV

Conference XV

• Conferences XI–XVII XV.1 — Discourse of Abbot Nesteros on the threefold system of gifts. After evening service we sat down together on the mats as usual ready for the promised narration: and when we had kept silence for some little time out of…vatican.va
• Conferences XI–XVII XV.2 — Wherein one ought to admire the saints. Wherefore we never ought to admire those who affect these things, for these powers, but rather to look whether they are perfect in driving out all sins, and amending their…vatican.va
• Conferences XI–XVII XV.3 — Of a dead man raised to life by Abbot Macarius. As also we remember that a dead man was raised to life by Abbot Macarius who was the first to find a home in the desert of Scete. For when a certain heretic who…vatican.va
• Conferences XI–XVII XV.4 — Of the miracle which Abbot Abraham wrought on the breasts of a woman. Why also need I mention the acts of Abbot Abraham, who was surnamed ἁπλοῦς, i.e., the simple, from the simplicity of his life and his innocence.…vatican.va
• Conferences XI–XVII XV.5 — Of the cure of a lame man which the same saint wrought. Or when the same man as he went to a village was surrounded by mocking crowds, who sneered at him and showed him a man who was for many years deprived of the…vatican.va
• Conferences XI–XVII XV.6 — How the merits of each man should not be judged by his miracles. And so these men gave no credit to themselves for their power of working such wonders, because they confessed that they were done not by their own…vatican.va
• Conferences XI–XVII XV.7 — How the excellence of gifts consists not in miracles but in humility. Finally the Author Himself of all miracles and mighty works, when He called His disciples to learn His teaching, clearly showed what those true…vatican.va
• Conferences XI–XVII XV.8 — How it is more wonderful to have cast out one's faults from one's self than devils from another. How it is more wonderful to have cast out one’s faults from one’s self than devils from another. And in truth it is a…vatican.va
• Conferences XI–XVII XV.9 — How uprightness of life is of more importance than the working of miracles. And of those cures it was said to the blessed Apostles: “Rejoice not that the devils are subject to you.” For this was wrought not by their…vatican.va
• Conferences XI–XVII XV.10 — A revelation on the trial of perfect chastity. And to prove this that we have said both by the testimony of the ancients and divine oracles, we had better bring forward in his own words and experience what the…vatican.va