Life of Antony
Classic translation
4th c. · Hagiography & Martyrdom · English translation, 1890
Source edition: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II (ed. Schaff & Wace, 1890–1900)
Cover art: The Saint Catherine Monastery in Sinai — Adolf von Meckel (German, 1856–1893) (Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)
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Contents
- Prologue
- Preface
- Birth and Beginnings of Antony
- His Early Ascetic Life
- Early Conflicts With the Devil
- Details of His Life at This Time (271-285?)
- His Life in the Tombs, and Combats With Demons There
- He Goes to the Desert and Overcomes Temptations on the Way
- How Antony Took up His Abode in a Ruined Fort Across the Nile, and How He…
- How He Left the Fort, and How Monasticism Began to Flourish in Egypt. Antony…
- His Address to Monks, Rendered From Coptic, Exhorting Them to Perseverance, and…
- The Growth of the Monastic Life at This Time (About A.D. 305)
- How Antony Renewed His Ascetic Endeavours at This Time
- How He Sought Martyrdom at Alexandria During the Persecution (311)
- How He Lived at This Time
- How He Delivered a Woman From an Evil Spirit
- How at This Time He Betook Himself to His 'Inner Mountain.'
- How He There Combated the Demons
- Of the Miraculous Spring, and How He Edified the Monks of the 'Outer' Mountain…
- How Humanely He Counselled Those Who Resorted to Him
- Of the Case of Fronto, Healed by Faith and Prayer
- Of a Certain Virgin, and of Paphnutius the Confessor
- Of the Two Brethren, and How One Perished of Thirst
- Of the Death of Amun, and Antony's Vision Thereof
- Of Count Archelaus and the Virgin Polycration
- Strange Tales of the Casting Out of Demons
- Of Antony's Vision Concerning the Forgiveness of His Sins
- Of the Passage of Souls, and How Some Were Hindered of Satan
- How Antony Reverenced All Ordained Persons
- How He Rejected the Schism of Meletius and the Heresies of Manes and Arius
- How He Confuted the Arians
- How He Visited Alexandria, and Healed and Converted Many, and How Athanasius…
- How He Reasoned With Divers Greeks and Philosophers at the 'Outer' Mountain
- How He Confuted the Philosophers by Healing Certain Vexed With Demons
- How the Emperors Wrote to Antony, and of His Answer
- How He Saw in a Vision the Present Doings of the Arians
- That His Healings Were Done by Christ Alone, Through Prayer
- How Wisely He Answered a Certain Duke
- Of the Duke Balacius, and How, Warned by Antony, He Met With a Miserable End
- How He Bore the Infirmities of the Weak, and of His Great Benefits to All Egypt
- Of His Discernment, and How He Was a Counsellor to All
- How, When Now 105 Years Old, He Counselled the Monks, and Gave Advice…
- Of His Sickness and His Last Will
- Of Antony's Death
- How Antony Remained Hale Until His Death, and How the Fame of Him Filled All…
- The End