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Chapter I. The transition from the Institutes of the monks to the struggle against the eight principal faults.
Chapter II. How the occasions of these faults, being found in everybody, are ignored by everybody; and how we need the Lord's help to make them plain.
Chapter III. How our first struggle must be against the spirit of gluttony, i.e. the pleasures of the palate.
Chapter IV. The testimony of Abbot Antony in which he teaches that each virtue ought to be sought for from him who professes it in a special degree.
Chapter V. That one and the same rule of fasting cannot be observed by everybody.
Chapter VI. That the mind is not intoxicated by wine alone.
Chapter VII. How bodily weakness need not interfere with purity of heart.
Chapter VIII. How food should be taken with regard to the aim at perfect continence.
Chapter IX. Of the measure of the chastisement to be undertaken, and the remedy of fasting.
Chapter X. That abstinence from food is not of itself sufficient for preservation of bodily and mental purity.
Chapter XI. That bodily lusts are not extinguished except by the entire rooting out of vice.
Chapter XII. That in our spiritual contest we ought to draw an example from the carnal contests.
Chapter XIII. That we cannot enter the battle of the inner man unless we have been set free from the vice of gluttony.
Chapter XIV. How gluttonous desires can be overcome.
Chapter XV. How a monk must always be eager to preserve his purity of heart.
Chapter XVI. How, after the fashion of the Olympic games, a monk should not attempt spiritual conflicts unless he has won battles over the flesh.
Chapter XVII. That the foundation and basis of the spiritual combat must be laid in the struggle against gluttony.
Chapter XVIII. Of the number of different conflicts and victories through which the blessed Apostle ascended to the crown of the highest combat.
Chapter XIX. That the athlete of Christ, so long as he is in the body, is never without a battle.
Chapter XX. How a monk should not overstep the proper hours for taking food, if he wants to proceed to the struggle of interior conflicts.
Chapter XXI. Of the inward peace of a monk, and of spiritual abstinence.
Chapter XXII. That we should for this reason practise bodily abstinence that we may by it attain to a spiritual fast.
Chapter XXIII. What should be the character of the monk's food.
Chapter XXIV. How in Egypt we saw that the daily fast was broken without scruple on our arrival.
Chapter XXV. Of the abstinence of one old man who took food six times so sparingly that he was still hungry.
Chapter XXVI. Of another old man, who never partook of food alone in his cell.
Chapter XXVII. What the two Abbots Pوsius and John said of the fruits of their zeal.
Chapter XXVIII. The lesson and example which Abbot John when dying left to his disciples.
Chapter XXIX. Of Abbot Machetes, who never slept during the spiritual conferences, but always went to sleep during earthly tales.
Chapter XXX. A saying of the same old man about not judging any one.
Chapter XXXI. The same old man's rebuke when he saw how the brethren went to sleep during the spiritual conferences, and woke up when some idle story was told.
Chapter XXXII. Of the letters which were burnt without being read.
Chapter XXXIII. Of the solution of a question which Abbot Theodore obtained by prayer.
Chapter XXXIV. Of the saying of the same old man, through which he taught by what efforts a monk can acquire a knowledge of the Scriptures.
Chapter XXXV. A rebuke of the same old man, when he had come to my cell in the middle of the night.
Chapter XXXVI. A description of the desert in Diolcos, where the anchorites live.
Chapter XXXVII. Of the cells which Abbot Archebius gave up to us with their furniture.
Chapter XXXVIII. The same Archebius paid a debt of his mother's by the labour of his own hands.
Chapter XXXIX. Of the device of a certain old man by which some work was found for Abbot Simeon when he had nothing to do.
Chapter XL. Of the boys who when bringing to a sick man some figs, died in the desert from hunger, without having tasted them.
Chapter XLI. The saying of Abbot Macarius of the behaviour of a monk as one who was to live for a long while, and as one who was daily at the point of death.
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