leave the church without divine service. each took with him as much as he could or wanted in the way of food, according to the needs of his body: one would take a little bread, another some figs, another dates or wheat soaked in water. and some took nothing but their own body covered with rags and fed when nature forced them to it on the plants that grew in the desert.
after crossing the jordan, they all scattered far and wide in different directions. and this was the rule of life they had, and which they all observed -- neither to talk to one another, nor to know how each 