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“19. A brother said to a hermit, 'How does the fear of God come into the soul?' He said, 'If there is humility and poverty, and no judgement of others, the fear of God will be present there.’

20. A hermit said, 'Let fear, humility, fasting, and weeping, take root in you.'”