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Shorter Rules

St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925

Rule 152: If a Man Fulfilling His Daily Service in the Kitchen as His Turn Comes Round…

We have already said that he who is entrusted with the arrangements for work should frame his commands having regard to both the suitability and the strength of the worker, lest he be told: “Thou who framest trouble as a statute.”1 Yet he who receives commands must not gainsay; for there are no limits to obedience except death.2

Notes

  1. Ps. xciv. 20.
  2. Obedience unto death is prescribed in F. 28, B. 116.

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