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Morals
St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925
Chapter 79
That rulers should be vindicators of God’s ordinances. Rom. xiii. 3 τῶν ἀγαθῶν ἔργων ἀλλὰ τῶν κακῶν for τῷ ἀγαθῷ ἔργῳ ἀλλὰ τῷ κακῷ K; 4. 2That one must be subject to higher powers in all things in which the commandment of God is not hindered. Rom. xiii. 1 add ἐξουσίαι after οὖσαι K, add τοῦ before θεοῦ K; 2; 3 K as above; Acts v. 29; Tit. iii. 1 add καί after ἀρχαῖς K.