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The Christian Destruction of the Classical World

The Ancients

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Give Away Everything and Follow God

Achly, i'm going to ask you about saint antony. He is a affluent roman who hears as he's walking past a church one day hear the words, if thou shalt be perfect,. And he decides to do it. But then he gos on. He lives in, first he lives in a pigstye at the end of his garden. Pigstys, it's not wholly clear what that means, pigsty is how it's normally translated. Then he goes a bit further, and he lives, in various times, at te soot, of in a deserted roman fort. And then he moves off to a mountain. And all the while

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