We here catch a glimpse of the circumstances which were winning over good men to monasticism in the West, though the evidence of an enthusiastic votary of the solitary life, such as Severus was, is probably not free from exaggeration.
Di sini terlihat sekilas keadaan membuat orang tertarik kepada monastisisme di Barat, meskipun bukti-bukti antusias kelebihan hidup soliter, seperti Severus, tidak lepas dari pandangan berlebihan.