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Second Canonical Letter to Amphilochius
St Basil the Great, NPNF II.14; summary
Chapter 19
That men, though they seem tacitly to promise celibacy, by becoming monks, yet do it not expressly; yet I think fit that they be interrogated too, and that a profession should be demanded of them, that if they betake themselves to a carnal life, they may be punished as fornicators.