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The preface explains Benedict’s life in sixth-century Italy amid political upheaval, noting that records of him emerge from about fifty years after his death. It highlights Pope St Gregory the Great’s testimony that Benedict wrote a discreet, lucid Rule, introduced into monastic life and later influential across Western Europe. 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той ётптчхбуто; ь Хоуоб,Ала тєр1 тоб бутиа тротоу хрп зїу.  \nptато, Republic 352 D.  \n# PREFACE\n\nAINT BENEDICT lived and worked in central Italy inthe first half of the sixth century,the approximatedate of his death being A.D.547.His life began andended with periods of devastating war,during which Italywas gravely disorganized;but at its centre,under the mas-terful rule of Theodoric(493-526),it knew some thirtyyears of peace.Yet this period too,though free from thealarms and excursions of war,was not one in which the artsof peace flourished greatly,so that we cannot be surprisedthat the slender chronicles of the time contain no recordof the Saint's life and work.It is not until nearly fty yearsafter his death that we have any record of him,i.e.until theyear 594 and the Dialogues of Pope St Gregory the Great.However,this record,when it came,was certainly an ap-preciative one,and it contains an item which is of particularinterest and value to an editor of the Holy Rule.Here is theimportant piece of information that St Gregory gives hisdeacon:  \nS  \nI should like,Peter,to tell you much more about thisvenerable abbot;but I purposely pass over some of hisdeeds,for I hasten to get on to the lives of others.Yet Iwould not have you ignorant of this,that Benedict waseminent,not only for the many miracles that made himfamous,but also for his teaching.In fact,he wrote a Rulefor Monks,which is of conspicuous discretion and iswritten in a lucid style.If anyone wishes to know Bene-dict's character and life more precisely,he may find acomplete account of his principles and practice in theordinances of that Rule;for the Saint cannot have taughtotherwise than as he lived(IⅡ 36).vii  \nPREFACE  \nSuch is the testimony of the greatest of all the disciplesof the Rule,who introduced it into that monastery of hiswhence came the apostles of the English people,who com-mended it regularly in his letters,and whose advocacy it wasthat set the Rule upon the career which resulted in its be-coming the monastic code of Western Europe.  \nWhen did St Benedict compose his Rule?He would havefelt the need of some code oflaw from the very beginning,assoonashehadacceptedthetaskoforganizing community life,that is to say,at Subiaco and in the earliest years of the sixthcentury.It is necessary to suppose,for instance,that his firstcommunities had a definite horarium for the Divine Office,for study,and for manual work,that they had officialsand a discipline of punishments for breaches of monasticrule,etc.It is probable,therefore,that the correspondingchapters of the Rule were established,at least in substance,as early as this.In fact,it seems very reasonable to supposethat St Benedict composed his Rule,so to say,“as he wentalong”,adding from year to year the conclusions suggestedby experience and by his monastic reading,and in thisgradual way constructing finally a complete code ofmonasticobservance.The Rule itself contains various indicationswhich support such a theory of progressive composition.Although there is,of course,a fundamental continuity ofsubject-matter,yet there are not a few chapters whichoccur in a somewhat haphazard","cbCaihDyaCkpdWWU","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihDyaCkpdWWU","pdf",3642320,100,"English","# PREFACE\n## Historical background of Benedict\n## Gregory the Great’s testimony\n## Likely composition and development of the Rule","[{\"question\":\"Who wrote the Rule for monks according to the preface?\",\"answer\":\"The preface attributes the Rule to Saint Benedict and presents Pope St Gregory the Great’s testimony about Benedict’s teaching and authorship.\"},{\"question\":\"When does the preface say records of Benedict first appear?\",\"answer\":\"It states that records emerge nearly fifty years after Benedict’s death, around the year 594, linked to the Dialogues of Pope St Gregory the Great.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the preface describe the Rule’s composition process?\",\"answer\":\"It suggests Benedict likely composed the Rule gradually “as he went along,” adding conclusions over time based on experience and monastic reading, producing a complete code.\"}]","THE RULE OFST BENEDICT - Translated by Justin McCann | PDF",1791872139,252]