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Morals

St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925

Chapter 77

That virgins should be freed from every care of this present world, that they may be able to give thanks to God without distraction of either mind or body, in hope of the Kingdom of heaven. Mt. xix. 12; 1 Cor. vii. 32 ἀρέσει for ἀρέσῃ K; 33 ἀρέσει for ἀρέσῃ; 34 omit καί before μεμέρισται K, ἀρέσει for ἀρέσῃ K; 35.