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Morals

St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925

Chapter 11

That one must not despise God’s judgments but fear them, even if recompense is slow in coming.

Mt. x. 28; Lk. xii. 45; 46; Jn. v. 14 τί σοι for σοί τι K; Eph. v. 6.

That he who has been corrected for his former sins, and counted worthy of forgiveness, if he sin again prepares for himself a judgment of wrath worse than the former judgment.

Jn. v. 14 as above.

That when some have incurred the judgment of God’s anger, the rest ought to fear and correct themselves. Lk. xiii. 1; 2 add ὁ Ἰησοῦς before εἶπεν K; 3 ὡσαύτως for ὁμοίως K; 4 οὗτοι for αὐτοί K, add ἐν before Ἱερ. K; 5; Acts v. 5 add ταῦτα after ἀκούοντας K; 1 Cor. x. 10; 11 τύποι for τυπικῶς K. 4That a man is often handed over as a punishment to his actual works of wickedness, because of previous impiety. Rom. i. 28; 2 Thess. ii. 10; 11 omit καί before διά*.

That a multitude of sinners cannot importune God, but such a one as pleases Him, whether man or woman. Lk. iv. 25 omit δὲ before λέγω, ὅτι before πολλαί; 26 Σιδῶνος for Σιδωνίας K; 1 Cor. x. 1 ὑμῶν for ἡμῶν**; 2 ἐβαπτίσθησαν for ἐβαπτίσαντο; 3–5.