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St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925
Rule 149: What is the Judgment on the Steward If He Does Anything with Favouritism or…
Since the apostle in one place bids us do nothing by partiality and in another declares:1 But if any man seemeth to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the Churches of God,”2 let such a man be declared alien to the Church of God until he be reformed. We must however with much care test what each man is fit for, and so allot all work whatsoever; lest those who allot what is not suited to a man be condemned as bad stewards both of souls and of the Lord’s commandments, and lest those to whom work is allotted think to find in this an excuse for sin.
Notes
- See Intr. p. 41.
- 1 Cor. xi. 16.