FOR AVVA XOIE
1. A brother asked avva Xoie, saying: if I will find myself somewhere, and I will eat three loafs of bread, is it too much? The old man said to him: did you come to the field (work), brother? And he said again: if I will drink three cups of wine, is it too much? He said to him: if there is no demon, it is not much, but if there is, it is much. For the wine is foreign to the monks who live by God.
2. One of the fathers was saying about avva Xoie, the Tebean, that he once entered in the Mount Sinai, and as we was leaving, a brother welcomed him, and sighing was saying: we are upset, avvo, for the lack of rain. The old man said to him: and why do you not ask, and pray to God? The brother said to him: we pray, and we do litanys, but it does not rain. The old man said to him: surely, you do not pray with wholeheartedly. But do you want to know that it is so? And he stretched his mand to the sky with prayer, and immediately it rained. And the brother, seeing, he got afraid, and falling with his face to the ground, bowed to him, and the old man ran. The brother let all know what it was done, and the ones who heard praised God.
FOR AVVA XANTIE
1. Avva Xantie said: the thief was on the Cross, and because of one word became straight. And Iuda was counted together with the apostoles, and in one night he wasted all the weariness, and descended from the heavens into hell. Because of that, let nobody doing good be proud, for all who have hoped in themselves, have fallen.
2. Once, avva Xantie went up from the Skete to Terenut. And where he was hosted, for the weariness of the strain, it was brought to him a little bit of wine. And some, hearing, brought him a demonized, and the demon started to curse the old man: did you bring me to this wine drinker? And the old man did not want to get it out, but, for the defamation was saying: I believe to Christ, that I will not finish this glass, until you will not get out. And as the old man started to drink, the demon shouted, saying: you are burning me, you are burning me! And before he finished, the demon came out, with the gift of Christ.
3. This same one said: the dog is better than me, for it both has love, and it is not coming to judgement.