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St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925
Rule 236: How Ought They Who Have Been Counted Worthy to Learn the Four Gospels to…
Since the Lord declared: “To whom they committed much, of him they will ask the more,”1 we ought to fear exceedingly and be zealous, as the apostle taught: ‘Working together with him we entreat also ye receive not the grace of God in vain.”2 But this is secured if we obey the Lord’s words: ‘If ye know these things, blessed are ye if ye do them.”3
Notes
- Lk. xii. 48 ἀπαιτήσουσιν for αἰτήσουσιν.
- 2 Cor. vi. 1.
- Jn. xiii. 17.