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St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925
Rule 285: Should One Brotherhood Trading with Another Be Solicitous About the Proper…
Whether Scripture allows among brethren buying from one another and selling to one another is a matter about which I have nothing to say. For we are taught to share with one another to meet needs according as it is written:23 Your abundance being a supply for their want, and their abundance for your want, that there may be equality.”4 But let both remember the passage: “To fine a righteous man is not good.”5
Notes
- 2 Cor. viii. 14 1.
- Prov. xvii. 26.
- Or, presumably, nurse him in the convent. Cf. B. 155, Epp. cl, clxxvi.
- “The copy brought from Pontus went as far as this: the remain-ing 27 chapters and the Penalties were added from the Caesarean Codex”’ (4124).
- Col. 1. 10.