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Shorter Rules

St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925

Rule 255: Where Was He Bidden to Go Away Who Was Told, Take Up that Which is Thine and Go…

Perhaps to that place whither those who stood on the left were told to go, who were blamed because they lacked good works. But every one that envieth his brother is worse than he who lacks good works. The Scripture is accustomed often to class murder and envy together.2

Notes

  1. Mt. xx. 14.
  2. Cf. Rom. i. 29. In Greek φόνος, φθόνος.

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