Ebook The Paradise or Garden of the Holy Fathers

I3. A certain father came to Abba Arsenius, and he knocked at the door, and the old man opened unto him thinking that it was his servant [who had knocked]; and when he saw who it was, he cast himself upon his face, and the father entreated him, saying, Stand up, 0 father, that I may give thee the salutation of peace. But Arsenius disputed with him, say ing, 1 will not stand up until thou hast departed; and though he entreated him to do so often he would not stand up, and the father left him and departed.