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Shorter Rules

St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925

Rule 52: The Apostle Says in One Place, “Let us not be vain-glorious; in another,“Not in…

I reckon that he is vain-glorious who does or says anything merely for the sake of worldly glory in the eyes of those who see or hear; and he is a men-pleaser who does anything to please a man and meet his wishes, even though what is done be disgraceful.3

Notes

  1. Gal. v. 26†.
  2. Eph. vi. 6 ἐν ὀφθαλμοδουλείᾳ for κατ’ ὀφθαλμοδουλείαν**.
  3. We gather that ἀνθρωπάρεσκος, a Biblical and ecclesiastical word, has come to have a bad sense, while κενόδοξος only implies folly.

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