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Chapter I. Of the training of those who renounce this world, and of the way in which those are taught among the monks of Tabenna and the Egyptians who are received into the monasteries.
Chapter II. Of the way in which among them men remain in the monasteries even to extreme old age.
Chapter III. Of the ordeal by which one who is to be received in the monastery is tested.
Chapter IV. The reason why those who are received in the monastery are not allowed to bring anything in with them.
Chapter V. The reason why those who give up the world, when they are received in the monasteries, must lay aside their own clothes and be clothed in others by the Abbot.
Chapter VI. The reason why the clothes of the renunciants with which they joined the monastery are preserved by the steward.
Chapter VII. The reason why those who are admitted to a monastery are not permitted to mix at once with the congregation of the brethren, but are first committed to the guest house.
Chapter VIII. Of the practices in which the juniors are first exercised that they may become proficient in overcoming all their desires.
Chapter IX. The reason why the juniors are enjoined not to keep back any of their thoughts from the senior.
Chapter X. How thorough is the obedience of the juniors even in those things which are matters of common necessity.
Chapter XI. The kind of food which is considered the greater delicacy by them.
Chapter XII. How they leave off every kind of work at the sound of some one knocking at the door, in their eagerness to answer at once.
Chapter XIII. How wrong it is considered for any one to say that anything, however trifling, is his own.
Chapter XIV. How, even if a large sum of money is amassed by the labour of each, still no one may venture to exceed the moderate limit of what is appointed as adequate.
Chapter XV. Of the excessive desire of possession among us.
Chapter XVI. On the rules for various rebukes.
Chapter XVII. Of those who introduced the plan that the holy Lessons should be read in the Cœnobia while the brethren are eating, and of the strict silence which is kept among the Egyptians.
Chapter XVIII. How it is against the rule for any one to take anything to eat or drink except at the common table.
Chapter XIX. How throughout Palestine and Mesopotamia a daily service is undertaken by the brethren.
Chapter XX. Of the three lentil beans which the Steward found.
Chapter XXI. Of the spontaneous service of some of the brethren.
Chapter XXII. The system of the Egyptians, which is appointed for the daily service of the brethren.
Chapter XXIII. The obedience of Abbot John by which he was exalted even to the grace of prophecy.
Chapter XXIV. Of the dry stick which, at the bidding of his senior, Abbot John kept on watering as if it would grow.
Chapter XXV. Of the unique vase of oil thrown away by Abbot John at his senior's command.
Chapter XXVI. How Abbot John obeyed his senior by trying to roll a huge stone, which a large number of men were unable to move.
Chapter XXVII. Of the humility and obedience of Abbot Patermucius, which he did not hesitate to make perfect by throwing his little boy into the river at the command of his senior.
Chapter XXVIII. How it was revealed to the Abbot concerning Patermucius that he had done the deed of Abraham; and how when the same Abbot died, Patermucius succeeded to the charge of the monastery.
Chapter XXIX. Of the obedience of a brother who at the Abbot's bidding carried about in public ten baskets and sold them by retail.
Chapter XXX. Of the humility of Abbot Pinufius, who left a very famous Cœnobium over which he presided as Presbyter, and out of the love of subjection sought a distant monastery where he could be received as a novice.
Chapter XXXI. How when Abbot Pinufius was brought back to his monastery he stayed there for a little while and then fled again into the regions of Syrian Palestine.
Chapter XXXII. The charge which the same Abbot Pinufius gave to a brother whom he admitted into his monastery in our presence.
Chapter XXXIII. How it is that, just as a great reward is due to the monk who labours according to the regulations of the fathers, so likewise punishment must he inflicted on an idle one; and therefore no one should be admitted into a monastery too easily.
Chapter XXXIV. Of the way in which our renunciation is nothing but mortification and the image of the Crucified.
Chapter XXXV. How the fear of the Lord is our cross.
Chapter XXXVI. How our renunciation of the world is of no use if we are again entangled in those things which we have renounced.
Chapter XXXVII. How the devil always lies in wait for our end, and how we ought continually to watch his head.
Chapter XXXVIII. Of the renunciant's preparation against temptation, and of the few who are worthy of imitation.
Chapter XXXIX. Of the way in which we shall mount towards perfection, whereby we may afterwards ascend from the fear of God up to love.
Chapter XL. That the monk should seek for examples of perfection not from many instances but from one or a very few.
Chapter XLI. The appearance of what infirmities one who lives in a Cœnobium ought to exhibit.
Chapter XLII. How a monk should not look for the blessing of patience in his own case as a result of the virtue of others, but rather as a consequence of his own longsuffering.
Chapter XLIII. Recapitulation of the explanation how a monk can mount up towards perfection.
الكتاب الرابع عن جاحدي العالم أو الحياة العامة للذين نبذوا العالم من أجل الله، والفضائل اللائقة بهم
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