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332 whatsoever of his own members he could get into his mouth, and laughed incessantly at every other. Many beheld these five men; and much wondered why they did these things."

My beloved, the first of these men represents the covetous; the second, the gluttonous and luxurious; the third, the rich and honorable; the fourth, the hypocrites; and the fifth, are the calumniators of the good.

read in the Lives of the Fathers, that an angel shewed to a certain holy man, three