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St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925
Rule 65: How Does a Man “hold down the truth in unrighteousness?
When he uses the good things given by God wrongly for his own desires, a thing which the apostle repudiated when he said: “For we are not as the many, corrupting the word of God ’2; and again: “For neither at any time were we found using words of flattery, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness, God is witness; nor seeking glory of men, neither from you, nor from others.”3 g
Notes
- See Rom. i. 18.
- 2 Cor. ii. 17.
- 1 Thess. ii. 5; 6.