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St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925
Rule 221: The Lord Teaches Us to Pray Lest We Enter into Temptation; Must We Then Pray…
He made no distinction as to the quality of temptation but commanded in general terms: ‘Pray that ye enter not into temptation.”1 But if he has once been brought into it he must ask from the Lord with the temptation a way of escape that he may be able to bear it,2 in order that we may gain what the Lord speaks of: “He that endureth to the end the same shall be saved.”3
Notes
- Lk. xxii. 40.
- See 1 Cor. x. 13.
- Mt. xxiv. 13.