The Rules of Pachomius
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Overview
Pachomius was a third-century Christian monk, often cited as the “father of monastic institutions.” He is credited with the foundation of Christian cenobitic monasticism, a tradition that stresses community life governed by religious rules and precepts. The rules he set forth for this lifestyle are collected and translated in this excerpt from The Presbyterian Review by George H. Schodde.
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Top Highlights
“First of all it is not befitting that on the holy hill there should be any quarreling and clamor and crying aloud; and if any one does this, let his penance be to the eighth day, and let him prostrate himself each day three hundred times.” (Page 685)
“Few are these prayers.’ And the angel said to him: ‘This I have commanded that also the weak may be able to attain and to do this ordinance without grieving themselves; but the perfect do not desire for themselves an ordinance, for they themselves in their dwellings have resigned their whole lives to the Lord who sees it; but these things I have ordained for those who have no advisers, so that they may be able at least to do as a service what has been commanded them, and may come to the sacred rites openly with shining countenance.’” (Pages 682–683)
“And whoever does not awaken at the time of midnight and does not go into the church with the brethren, except on account of a certain sickness, let him prostrate himself one thousand times, and on that evening he shall not taste any broth and shall not drink anything except water alone.” (Page 686)
“while ye are returning to your dwelling-places, read what ye have recited from the Gospels, until ye come to your houses” (Page 684)
“And as he was sitting in his cave, the angel of the Lord appeared to him” (Page 681)
- Title: The Rules of Pachomius
- Author: G. H. Schodde
- Publisher: T&T Clark
- Publication Date: 1885
- Pages: 11
George Henry Schodde (1854–1917) was an American scholar of the Coptic language and Old Testament Pseudepigrapha.