They say about the holy Bishop Ammon that they brought to him for trial a woman who was accused of the sin of adultery (at that time the bishop also served as a judge). Looking at the unfortunate woman, the holy bishop said:
- You have conceived a child, your birth will be difficult.
Then he turned to his servants:
- Give her ten arshins of linen: if she dies during childbirth, then it will be her shroud, and if a child is born, then it will be useful for him.
And he released the woman without punishing her or giving her any penance. Then one virgin, who was present at the trial and longed for the vice to be punished, shouted:
- This bishop must be crazy!
To this the saint answered her:
“For many years I prayed in silence in the desert in order to acquire this madness, and now I do not want to part with it, I will not exchange it for any worldly wisdom.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru