"Come here, Damianus, and help me." The man he called rushed forward with several others, and the first success raised the courage of the anchorites so rapidly and wonderfully that the bishop soon found it difficult to restrain their zeal, and to persuade them to be sparing with the precious missiles.
While, under the direction of Agapitus stone after stone was hurled clattering over the steep precipice down upon the Blemmyes, Paulus sat by the sick man, looking at the ground.
"You are not helping them ?" asked Stephanus.

"Agapitus is right," replied the Alexandrian.

"I have much to expiate, and fighting brings enjoyment.

How great enjoyment I can understand by the torture it is to me to sit still.

The bishop blessed you affectionately." "I am near the goal," sighed Stephanus, "and he promises me the joys of heaven if I only forgive him who stole my wife from me.