authentic · Printed in Migne (PG 40) among Evagrius's works. The ascription to Evagrius is generally accepted; the Migne text differs from the modern critical text (Guillaumont, cited only).
Standing
Not honoured as a saint or in a church calendar by the Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant traditions. Evagrius was in communion with the church of his own lifetime (a monk of Nitria and Kellia, ordained deacon by Gregory of Nazianzus); his Origenist writings were condemned in 553, after his death, and he is not honoured as a saint in the Catholic, Orthodox or Protestant calendars, so he has no tradition's endorsement but is not outside the church of his own time.
Date
ca. 380-399 (approximate) · Written in the Egyptian desert (Nitria and Kellia) during the author's monastic years, after about 383.
Written at
Kellia, Egypt (probable)
Language
Greek
Genre
other
Reference system
saying number as printed in Migne; several numerals lost in the scan
SBL abbreviation
Rhes. mon.Not yet checked
Clavis
CPG 2430 (not yet checked)
Text from
J.-P. Migne, ed., Patrologia Graeca 40 (Paris, 1863), cols. 1213-1286 (Evagrius Ponticus); text from the archive.org OCR of the printed volume. Appended to the Practical Discourse in PG 40. (Printed edition in the public domain; OCR transcription of public-domain page images)
Critical editions
Evagre le Pontique, Traité pratique ou Le moine, ed. A. and C. Guillaumont, SC 170-171 (Paris: Cerf, 1971) (cited only) (cited, not reproduced)