Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria from 328 to 373 and the great defender of the Nicene faith: Against the Heathen and On the Incarnation, his defenses and apologies, the History of the Arians, the Four Discourses Against the Arians, On the Councils, the Life of Antony, and his Festal and personal letters. Modern English from the Post-Nicene Fathers translation.
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Contents
Life of Antony
1Contents of the Life2Preface3Antony’s Birth and Beginnings4His Early Life of Discipline5Early Struggles with the Devil6His Way of Life in These Years7His Life in the Tombs and His Fights with Demons8He Goes to the Desert9Twenty Years in a Ruined Fort10He Leaves the Fort, and the Desert Fills with Monks11Antony’s Address to the Monks12The Monks Fill the Mountains13Antony Renews His Discipline14Antony at Alexandria in the Persecution15His Life After the Persecution16Martinian’s Daughter Is Healed17Antony Goes to the Inner Mountain18Battles with Demons on the Inner Mountain19The Spring in the Desert and Antony’s Sister20Antony’s Counsel to Those Who Came to Him21Fronto Is Healed22The Girl from Busiris and Paphnutius the Confessor23The Two Brothers in the Desert24The Death of Amun25Archelaus and the Virgin Polycratia26Demons Cast Out27Antony’s Vision of the Reckoning in the Air28The Vision of Souls Passing Upward29Antony’s Respect for the Clergy30Antony Shuns the Melitians, Manichaeans, and Arians31Antony Refutes the Arians32Antony in Alexandria33Antony Answers the Philosophers34He Heals the Possessed Before the Philosophers35The Emperors Write to Antony36A Vision of What the Arians Would Do37His Healings Were Christ’s Work, Through Prayer38His Wise Answer to a Commander39The Miserable End of Balacius40A Physician Given to Egypt41His Discernment and His Counsel to All42His Last Counsel to the Monks, and on Burial43His Sickness and His Last Wishes44The Death of Antony45Sound to the End, and Famous Through All the World46Closing Words