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Shorter Rules
St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925
Rule 86: If a Man Say, I Neither Take Anything from the Brotherhood nor Do I Give Them…
If he obey not the teaching of the Lord Who said: ‘Love one another, as I have loved you,”1 let us obey the apostle who said: “Put away the wicked man from among yourselves”23; lest it come true, “A little leaven corrupteth the whole lump.”4
Notes
- Such a question implies the possibility of an idiorhythmic arrangement in one of B.’s monasteries.
- Jn. xiii. 34 add ἐγώ after καθώς*. 31 Cor. v. 13.
- Cor. v. 6.
- See B. 91 where the point is put even more strongly.