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Shorter Rules

St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925

Rule 168: With What Disposition Must One Receive a Garment or Shoes? Of Any Kind…

If the article is too small or too big for his size a man must make his requirement known with becoming modesty; but if he makes difficulties because of its poor quality or because it is not new, then let him remember what the Lord said:12 The labourer3’ —not just any one—“is worthy of his food.” And let him search his conscience whether he has done anything worthily of the commandments or promises of the Lord. And then he will not seek anything else but will hesitate concerning what has been given him as if he were receiving beyond his merit. For we must take what is said about food as a kind of rule applying to every matter of the needs of the body.

Notes

  1. (fF. 22, B. 90.
  2. * Mt. x. 10.
  3. Seems to imply that “seniors’ refers to spiritual pre-eminence, not age; see Intr. p. 42.

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