Chapter XXV.
Of the abstinence of one old man who took food six times
so sparingly that he was still hungry.
When
one of the elders was
pressing me to eat a little more as I was taking refreshment, and I
said that I could not, he replied: “I have already laid my table
six times for different brethren who had arrived, and, pressing each of
them, I partook of food with him, and am still hungry, and do you, who
now partake of refreshment for the first time, say that you cannot eat
any more?”