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Give Me a Word: The Alphabetical Sayings of the Desert Fathers, PPS52 (Popular Patristics Series Volume 52) Paperback St thomas often featuring traditional Scottish RiteWhen Christians first began living as monks in the Egyptian desert at the beginning of the fourth century, they had few books and almost no learning. As they gained experience, they concentrated that experience in the form of an oral tradition of tales and sayings (apophthegmata). Apart from the Scriptures (also learned by heart) this was the only training manual they had. Consequently, when the onslaught of barbarians drove many monks out of Egypt