The Paradise/Volume 1/Book 2/Chapter 19

by Palladius of Galatia

Chapter xix: Of a certain solitary Monk who used to feed on Grass by the Jordan

ACERTAIN monk was feeding on grass by the Jordan, and at noontide he went into a cave to rest, and he found there a lion which began to roar; and he said to the lion, “What vexeth thee? There is room enough here both