Desert Fathers: The Devil Loves Dusty Bibles

Dusty-Bible

A hermit said, “the prophets wrote books. Our predecessors came after them, and worked hard at them, and then their successors memorized them. But this generation copies them onto papyrus and parchment and leaves them unused on the window-ledge.

– De vitis Patrum, Sive Verba Seniorum, Liber V

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