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St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925

Rule 113: Can He Who is Entrusted with the Care of Souls Keep the Saying, Except Ye Turn…

Solomon, wisest of men, said: ‘There is a time for everything.”2 Know then that humility, authority, rebuke, exhortation, compassion, freedom of speech, kindness, severity, in a word everything has its own time. So that at one time we must show humility and imitate children in their humility, especially when it is time to pay honours and dues to one another, and to give service and attention to the body, as the Lord taught; and at another time we exercise authority, which the Lord gave for building up and not for casting down, when necessity demands freedom of speech. And in the time of exhortation we show kindness, at the time of severity, zeal, and so at each of the other times.

Notes

  1. Mt. xviii. 3.
  2. Eccl. iii. 1 καιρὸς τῷ παντὶ πράγματι with BabℵBC, Sw. (B) omits τῷ.

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