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St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925
Rule 177: How Ought the Strong to Bear the Infirmities of the Weak? + (R. 177)
If to bear means to take up and cure, according to the words of Scripture, “He received our infirmities and bore our diseases,”2 then this refers not to the reception of the infirmities by one’s self, but to healing sufferers. And even in this place we shall find the method and principle of penitence appropriate, whereby the weak are healed by the care of the stronger.
Notes
- See Rom. xv. 1.
- Isa. liii. 4 (quoted Mt. viii. 17).