`Give me a word, Father', visitors to early desert monks asked. The responses of these pioneer ascetics were remembered and in the fourth century written down in Coptic, Syriac, Greek, and later Latin. TheirSayings were collected, in this case in the alphabetical order of the monks and nuns who uttered them, and read by generations of Christians as life-giving words that would help readers along the path to salvation.
- ISBN10 0879079592
- ISBN13 9780879079598
- Publish Date 1 February 1975 (first published 1 January 1975)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Liturgical Press
- Edition Revised edition
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 269
- Language English