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St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925
Rule 136: Is It Necessary that All Should Be Gathered Together at the Hour of Lunch? And…
If he has stayed behind owing to necessities of place or work, then as one who keeps the command of him who said: Let each man, wherein he was called, therein abide with God,”2 he who superintends the common discipline after investigation will pardon him. But if he could have come in time but did not make haste, though he knew full well he would incur the accusation of carelessness, let him remain without food until the fixed time on the following day.
Notes
- τοῦ ἀρίστου. One meal a day only, see F. 21 (366A) and note thereon.
- 1 Cor. vii. 24.