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St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925

Rule 100: How Shall We Send Away Those that Come to the Door and Beg? And Ought Any One…

Since the Lord declared that it is not meet to take the children’s bread and to cast it to dogs and received the answer: ‘“Even the dogs eat from their master’s table,”’ let him who has been entrusted with the task of distribution do this work after careful investigation. And let any one who does it contrary to the permission of this one be rebuked as a disturber of good discipline till he learns to keep his place, as the apostle says:¹ Brethren, let each man, wherein he was called, therein abide.”²

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