5-8.] He did not affect any external signs of asceticism, contenting himself with praying, or rather meditating, upon the mountains, and in the solitary places, where man has always sought God.[1] This high idea of the relations of man with God, of which so few minds, even after him, have been capable, is summed up in a prayer which he taught to his disciples:[2] [Footnote 1: Matt.xiv.

23; Luke iv.

42, v.

16, vi.

12.] [Footnote 2: Matt.vi.9, and following; Luke xi.