2-619: The Asceticon ("ascetic discourses") by Abba Isaiah of Scetis is a diverse anthology of essays by an Egyptian Christian monk who left Scetis around 450 AD. Originally composed in Greek, the Asceticon consists of 30 essays (" logos " in singular, " logoi " in plural) on subjects including: advice for novice monks; precepts for those who have renounced the world; sayings and stories by Abba Isaiah; various letters, sermons, and sayings. Logos 30 includes several sayings that were also included in
4-782: The Apophthegmata Patrum ( Sayings of the Desert Fathers ), but in a different form, giving scholars some evidence on how those sayings evolved into their final form in the Apophthegmata Patrum . Abba Isaiah was also influential in bringing Christianity to Palestine. The 29 discourses in John Chryssavgis 's translation of the Asceticon are: The Asceticon was read and translated by the Nestorians of Central Asia. A Sogdian fragment of
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