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and of the anchorites | who made the desert a city and a dwelling-place and hostelry of angels? | For the angels continually visited these men | because their modes of life were so similar | and as being troops of a single Sovereign | at all times they kept company with their comrades-in-arms | that is to say, those who embraced the desert all the days of their life | and took up their abode in mountains and in dens and caves of the earth because of their love for God. | And since, having abandoned things earthly | they loved the heavenly and were become imitators of the angels | rightly did those very same holy angels not conceal the sight of themselves from them | and they fulfilled their every wish. | Homily 5, p. 158