30. Nunc autem veniunt 'plerumque' ad hanc professionem
servitutis Dei, et ex conditione servili, vel etiam
liberati, vel propter hoc a Dominis liberati sive liberandi;
et ex vita rusticana, et ex opificum exercitatione, et
plebeio labore. Augustin. de Oper. Monach. c. 22 ap.
Thomassin Discipline de l'Eglise, tom. iii. p. 1094. The
Egyptian, who blamed Arsenius, owned that he led a more
comfortable life as a monk than as a shepherd. See
Tillemont, Mem. Eccles. tom. xiv. p. 679