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St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925
244. Rule 244: What Does, Give Place Unto Wrath, Mean? (R. 158)
Either “resist not evil,”1 as it is written, but to him that strikes thee on the right cheek to turn the other also and so on: or else: “When they persecute you in this city flee into the next.”2
Notes
- Mt. v. 39 ¶.
- Mt. x. 23 ἄλλην for ἑτέραν K.