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and translation of the Sacred Scriptures. The ver- 

 sion, in Latin, now used in the Roman Church, 

 was made by him. His life was one of the greatest 

 self-mortification. 



Anthony was the founder of the monastic system. 

 However much in later days his imitators have 

 departed from the ideai he set before himself, and 

 however much his ideal may have been defective, 

 he comes to our notice as one who was exceedingly 

 eager to live a holy life, and to get out of the cor- 

 ruption which began to prevail in his day. He 

 and his companions supported themselves by the 

 work of their hands, and gave generously to the poor. 

 Anthony was present at the Council at Nice, as the 

 friend of Athanasius, and his influence went far to 

 aid the latter in checking the Arian heresy. 



But we cannot continue the list. There are 

 many others who are entitled to mention, and per- 

 haps equally so, with those now named. To get a 

 clear idea of the part any of them took in the 

 Church's afTairs, it is necessary to study their lives 

 more in detail than can be here attempted. 



We must remember, too, in forming an estimate 

 of them, not to judge them by the standards of our 

 own day, but of the times in which they lived, 

 although some of them were men of such true 

 greatness that they would have towered beyond 

 their fellow-men, in whatever age they had lived. 



