Isaac of the Cells
Abba Isaac of the Cells was one of the Desert Fathers quoted in the Apophthegmata Patrum (Sayings of the Desert Fathers).
Quotes
edit- Wortley, John (2014). Give Me a Word: The Alphabetical Sayings of the Desert Fathers. Yonkers, New York: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press. ISBN 978-0-88141-497-4.
- Once they came to make Abba Isaac a priest. When he heard, he fled into Egypt, went into a field, and hid amidst the crop. The fathers went after him and, when they got to that same field, sat down to rest a little there, for it was night. They set the ass free to pasture, but the ass went and stood by the elder. When they sought the ass at dawn, they found Abba Isaac too. They were amazed and wanted to bind him but he would not let them.
“I am not running away any more,” he said, “for it is the will of God and no matter where I run away to, I will come to it.”- Saying 1
- They used to say of Abba Isaac that he used to eat ashes from the thurible used at the Eucharist with his bread.
- Saying 6
