Lot of Egypt

Abba Lot was an Egyptian Orthodox Christian monk and saint who lived around the 4th and 5th centuries in a monastery[1] near Arsinoe (Al-Fayoum), lower Egypt, by a marshy lake.

[3][1] Abba Lot was a disciple of St. Joseph of Panephysis and a companion of St. Arsenius the Great and St.

When the old man began to teach the Origen heresy to the visitors, Abba Lot became distressed.

[2] He consulted St. Arsenius, who instructed Lot to ask to old man to stop teaching Origenism or to depart.

Abba Lot told him that he would bear half the weight of the sins for the man.

Immediately, half the weight of the grievous sins lifted off the man's back.

It is written in the Law: 'When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go free, for nothing.

The old man said, "The illegitimate will not remain in anyone’s service; it is the legitimate son who will not leave his father.

"[7]Abba Lot is commemorated in The Prologue of Ohrid by St. Nikolaj Velimirović on October 22.