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St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925
Rule 240: Why is the Gate Called Wide and the Way Broad Which Leadeth to Destruction? (R.…
The Lord of His great mercy uses the names and phrases of well-known things to establish the doctrines of the truth. As therefore there is a wide expanse for any one who leaves an earthly straight way, so, He says, he who goes out of the way that leads to the kingdom of heaven is found in a great width of error. But I think wide and broad mean the same thing. For broad is termed wide by whose who have had a foreign education. So the space, that is the place of the error, is wide, and its end is destruction.
Notes
- See Mt. vii. 13.