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St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925
Rule 171: If an Inferior is Grieved Because One Who is More Religious is Preferred to…
Such a man is clearly condemned as of an evil nature by the parable in the Gospel in which the Lord says to those who were grieved because certain men were rewarded equally with them: “Is thine eye evil because I am good?”2 And the judgment of God that falls on such a man and others like him is clear from the words of the prophet: “A reprobate is despised before him; but he glorifies those that fear the Lord.”3
Notes
- Of. B. 169.
- Mt. xx. 15 ei for 4 K.
- Ps. xv. 4.