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St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925

Rule 274: How Does a Man Become Foolish in This World? (R. 203)

If he has feared God’s judgment:1 ‘Woe to you who are wise in yourselves and prudent in your own eyes”23 and imitated him who said: “I became brutish with thee,”4 and having cast away every idea of wisdom deems no one of his own thoughts to be good and indeed never thinks of them at all, until the commandment of the Lord itself has accustomed him to what pleases God, whether in deed or word or thought, as the apostle said: “Such confidence have we through Christ to Godward: not that we are sufficient of ourselves to account anything as from ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God,” who teacheth man knowledge,” as it is written.

Notes

  1. Mk. iii. 29 4.
  2. See 1 Cor. iii. 18.
  3. Isa. v. 21.
  4. Ps. lxxiii. 22. Bas. has ἐγενήθην with NT as against ἐγενόμην of Sw.’s (B) text. 7? 2Cor.1i. 4; 5. Ps. xciv. 10.

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