{"id":26,"date":"2022-09-08T18:19:54","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T18:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/ruleofbenedict\/?post_type=chapter&p=26"},"modified":"2023-01-27T16:08:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T16:08:29","slug":"rb-01","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/ruleofbenedict\/chapter\/rb-01\/","title":{"raw":"1. The Kinds of Monks","rendered":"1. The Kinds of Monks"},"content":{"raw":"<\/a>It is clear that there are four kinds of monks.\r\n\r\n2<\/sup> The first are the cenobites, that is, those who live in a monastery serving under a rule and an abbot.\r\n\r\n3<\/sup>\u00a0The second kind are the anchorites, that is, the hermits. These monks are not in the first fervor of conversatio<\/em> but have been tested at length in the monastery. 4\u00a0<\/sup>Supported and taught by many, they have long since learned to fight against the devil. 5<\/sup>\u00a0Well-trained, they go forth from the battle ranks of their brothers to the single-handed combat of the desert. Fearless, even without the mutual support of another, they with the help of God have within themselves the strength to fight bare-handed against the evil ways of flesh and thoughts.\r\n\r\n6<\/sup> The third is truly a most detestable kind of monk, the Saraba\u00eftes. Unlike gold tried in a furnace, they have been tried by no rule and have had no experience to teach them; rather, they are by nature soft as lead. 7<\/sup> By their works, they keep faith with the world, and by their tonsure, they are known to lie to God. 8\u00a0<\/sup>In twos or threes, or even alone without a shepherd, they shut themselves up in their own sheepfolds, not in the Lord\u2019s. For their law, they take what their desires want. 9\u00a0<\/sup>Whatever they think and choose, they call holy, and whatever they do not want, they consider unlawful.\r\n\r\n10<\/sup> The fourth kind of monks, called gyrovagues, spend their whole life staying three or four days as a guest in one monastery and then in another throughout the various provinces. 11\u00a0<\/sup>Always roaming about with no fixed abode and serving their own passions and gluttonous impulses, they are worse in every way than the Saraba\u00eftes.\r\n\r\n12<\/sup> It is better to keep silent about all of these monks and their most wretched conversatio<\/em>. 13\u00a0<\/sup>Setting these people aside, let us proceed, with the Lord\u2019s help, to set up a structure for the strongest kind, the cenobites.","rendered":"

<\/a>It is clear that there are four kinds of monks.<\/p>\n

2<\/sup> The first are the cenobites, that is, those who live in a monastery serving under a rule and an abbot.<\/p>\n

3<\/sup>\u00a0The second kind are the anchorites, that is, the hermits. These monks are not in the first fervor of conversatio<\/em> but have been tested at length in the monastery. 4\u00a0<\/sup>Supported and taught by many, they have long since learned to fight against the devil. 5<\/sup>\u00a0Well-trained, they go forth from the battle ranks of their brothers to the single-handed combat of the desert. Fearless, even without the mutual support of another, they with the help of God have within themselves the strength to fight bare-handed against the evil ways of flesh and thoughts.<\/p>\n

6<\/sup> The third is truly a most detestable kind of monk, the Saraba\u00eftes. Unlike gold tried in a furnace, they have been tried by no rule and have had no experience to teach them; rather, they are by nature soft as lead. 7<\/sup> By their works, they keep faith with the world, and by their tonsure, they are known to lie to God. 8\u00a0<\/sup>In twos or threes, or even alone without a shepherd, they shut themselves up in their own sheepfolds, not in the Lord\u2019s. For their law, they take what their desires want. 9\u00a0<\/sup>Whatever they think and choose, they call holy, and whatever they do not want, they consider unlawful.<\/p>\n

10<\/sup> The fourth kind of monks, called gyrovagues, spend their whole life staying three or four days as a guest in one monastery and then in another throughout the various provinces. 11\u00a0<\/sup>Always roaming about with no fixed abode and serving their own passions and gluttonous impulses, they are worse in every way than the Saraba\u00eftes.<\/p>\n

12<\/sup> It is better to keep silent about all of these monks and their most wretched conversatio<\/em>. 13\u00a0<\/sup>Setting these people aside, let us proceed, with the Lord\u2019s help, to set up a structure for the strongest kind, the cenobites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"menu_order":2,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[49],"contributor":[],"license":[],"part":3,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/ruleofbenedict\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/ruleofbenedict\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/ruleofbenedict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/ruleofbenedict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/ruleofbenedict\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/ruleofbenedict\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/26\/revisions\/365"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/ruleofbenedict\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/3"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/ruleofbenedict\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/26\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/ruleofbenedict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/ruleofbenedict\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/ruleofbenedict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/ruleofbenedict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}