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The saint often met with injurious treatment,and very reviling words, which he ever repaid with such meekness andbeneficence as never failed to gain his very enemies. hurch which is at Ephesus: [Greek: Te ese en Epheso] at Magnesia near the Maeander: at Tralles: All can obtain that, because it isthe gratuitous gift of God, but this labor is but of a small number whorise after a fall, and recover by tears, and by destroying the flesh. But when he arrived inJudaea, {622} hearing that Archelaus succeeded Herod in that part of thecountry, a

nd the most dangerousinstrument which the devil ever employed in that design, to shift hisground, and change his artillery and manner of assault. sa, but not being able to bear with thetepidity and irregularity of his monks, he withdrew, and settled onMount Perpetuae et Felicitatis. From her life written by a contemporary author, and a second life, whichis the same with the former, except certain additions of a later date,in Bollandus and Mabillon, sec.