1While the God-loving old man, our father Isaac, was saying this, all his household gathered round him and wept.
2His son told all his relations, and they came to him in tears. Now our father Isaac had made for himself a bedroom in his house; and when his sight began to fail he withdrew into it and remained there for a hundred years, fasting daily until evening, and offering for himself and his household a young animal for their soul.
3And he spent half the night in prayer and praise of God. Thus he lived an ascetic life for a hundred years.
4And he kept three periods of forty days as fasts each year, neither drinking wine nor eating fruit nor sleeping on his bed. And he prayed and gave thanks to God continually.