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Shorter Rules

St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925

Rule 105: Ought We to Teach Arts Immediately to Those Who Come to the Brotherhood? (R.…

The Superiors must decide this.2

Notes

  1. R. has an answer on common-sense lines. Each case must be decided on its merits; e.g. a man unfitted for meditation must be given manual work. Ben. Reg. lxi has a phrase from R. 192.
  2. Note the plural (προεστῶτες) and the sing. ‘brotherhood,” see Intr. p. 40.

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