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Shorter Rules

St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925

Preface
Rule 1: Is It Lawful or Expedient for a Man to Allow Himself to Do or Say What He Thinks…
Rule 2: What Profession Ought We Who Wish to Live Together in God’s Way to Demand from…
Rule 3: How We Shall Convert the Sinner, or What Our Attitude to Him Shall Be If He is…
Rule 4: If Any Man Bears Hardly Upon the Brethren for Small Sins, Saying, You Should…
Rule 5: How a Man Should Repent for Each Sin, and What Fruits Worthy of Repentance He…
Rule 6: What of Him Who Professes in Word that He Repents But Does Not Correct His Sin?…
Rule 7: What is the Judgment Against Those Who Defend Sinners? (R. 26)
Rule 8: How We are to Receive Him that Truly Repents. (R. 27)
Rule 9: How We are to Feel Towards Him that Sins and Does Not Repent. (R. 28)
Rule 10: With What Fear and Tears a Soul Which Has Lived Miserably in Many Sins Ought to…
11. Rule 11: How One Manages Hatred of Sins. (R. 149)
Rule 12: How the Soul is Convinced that God Has Forgiven Its Sins
Rule 13: Whether He Who Has Sinned After Baptism Should Despair of His Salvation If He Be…
14. Rule 14: By What Fruits True Repentance Ought to Be Tested
Rule 15: What is the Meaning of: How Oft Shall My Brother Sin Against Me and I Forgive…
Rule 16: Why is It that the Soul at One Time Feels Compunction Even Without Effort,…
Rule 17: If a Man Thinks of Eating and Then Condemns Himself, Will He Be Subject to the…
Rule 18: Whether It is Right that a Man Who Has Once Sinned Should Be Entrusted with Any…
Rule 19: If Any Man Be Suspected of Sin But Does Not Commit It Openly, Must We Watch Him…
Rule 20: Whether the Man Who is Versed in Sin Must Avoid the Society of the Heterodox and…
Rule 21: Whence Come Mental Aberrations and Wandering Thoughts? And How Shall We Correct…
Rule 22: Whence Arise the Disgraceful Phantasies of the Night? (R. 85)
Rule 23: How Far Does the Judgment Upon Idle Words Extend? (R. 40)
24. Rule 24: What is Reviling? (R. 41)
25. Rule 25: What is Evil Speaking? (R. 42)
Rule 26: He Who Speaks Against a Brother or Hears Another Speaking Against Him and Does…
Rule 27: If a Man Speak Against the Superior, How Shall We Behave Towards Him? (R. 44)
Rule 28: If a Man Answers Another in a Violent Tone and Words and When Reminded of It…
29. Rule 29: How Can a Man Avoid Anger? (R. 46)
Rule 30: How We Shall Remove the Vice of Evil Concupiscence. (R. 49)
31. Rule 31: Must We Not Laugh at All (R. 53)
Rule 32: Whence Comes Untimely and Immoderate Sleep and How are We to Avoid It? (R. 55)
33. Rule 33: How is One Convicted of Men-pleasing? (R. 59)
Rule 34: How a Man Escapes the Vice of Men-pleasing and Looking for the Praises of Men.…
Rule 35: How the Proud is Recognised and How He is Cured. (R. 61)
36. Rule 36: Whether Honour Should Be Sought. (R. 63)
Rule 37: How Can He Recover Zeal Who is Backward in Obeying the Commandment? (R. 66)
Rule 38: What of a Brother Who Receives a Command and Refuses to Obey But Afterwards…
39. Rule 39: What of a Man Who Obeys and Yet Murmurs? (R. 71)
Rule 40: If a Brother Makes Another Sorry, How Ought We to Correct Him? (R. 72)
Rule 41: What If He Who Has Vexed Another Cannot Bring Himself to Make an Apology? (R. 73)
Rule 42: What If, When He Who Has Vexed Another Makes an Apology, the Other Refuses to Be…
Rule 43: How We Should Attend to Him Who Wakes Us for Prayer. (R. 75)
Rule 44: If a Man is Cross or Angry When Awakened from Sleep, What Does He Deserve? (R.…
Rule 45: Is There Any Excuse for a Man Who Having Heard the Lord’s Words, That Servant,…
Rule 46: If a Man Suffers Another to Commit Sin, is He Guilty of that Sin? (R. 121)
47. Rule 47: Should We Keep Silence When Men Sin? (R. 122)
48. Rule 48: What Constitutes Avarice? (R. 141)
49. Rule 49: What is to Vaunt Oneself? (R. 142)
Rule 50: If a Man Rejects the More Expense Garments and Chooses What is Cheap, Whether…
51. Rule 51: What is Raca? (R. 145)
Rule 52: The Apostle Says in One Place, “Let us not be vain-glorious; in another,“Not in…
Rule 53: What is Pollution of the Flesh and What is Pollution of the Spirit? And How…
Rule 54: What is Self-love, and How Can the Lover of Self (Philautos) Recognise Himself?…
Rule 55: What is the Difference Between Bitterness, Wrath, Anger and Exasperation? (R.…
Rule 56: The Lord Declared, He that Exalteth Himself Shall Be Humbled; and the Apostle…
Rule 57: If Any Man Has a Fault Which He Does Not Amend and Though Continually Reproved…
Rule 58: Is Only He Who Lies on Purpose Condemned, or He Also Who Speaks Something…
Rule 59: If a Man Only Thinks of Doing a Thing and Does Not Do It, is He Too to Be Judged…
Rule 60: If a Man Has Already Decided to Do Something Displeasing to God, is It Better…
Rule 61: If a Man Cannot Work and Does Not Wish to Learn Psalms, What are We to Do with…
Rule 62: What Must a Man Do to Be Condemned for Hiding Has Talents? (R. 188)
Rule 63: What Must a Man Do to Be Condemned Like Those Who Murmured Against the Last…
Rule 64: Since Our Lord Jesus Christ Says: ‘It is profitable for him that a great…
Rule 65: How Does a Man “hold down the truth in unrighteousness?
Rule 66: What is the Difference Between Strife and Factiousness?
Rule 68: The Distinguishing Marks of Wrath and Justifiable Indignation?; And How Often…
Rule 69: How are We to Deal with the Man Who Eats No Less Than the Rest, Who is Not an…
Rule 70: How Must We Treat the Man Who Misuses His Clothes and Shoes, and When Accused…
Rule 71: There are Some Who Seek Delicacies Rather Than Quantity in Their Eating; Others…
Rule 72: If a Man Behaves Indecently in the Brotherhood at Meal Times, Eating or Drinking…
Rule 73: If a Man Rebukes the Sinner, Not from a Desire to Reform Has Brother 441 But…
Rule 74: We Ask to Be Taught from the Scripture Whether Those Who Go Out from the…
Rule 75: Whether It is Fitting to Say that Satan is the Author of Every Sin, in Thought,…
Rule 76: Is It Lawful to Lie in Order to Achieve Some Supposed Good?
Rule 77: What is the Difference Between Deceit and Malignity?
78. Rule 78: Who are Inventors of Evil Things?
Rule 79: If a Man Accuses Himself of Constant Harsh Conduct Towards His Brother, How…
Rule 80: Whence Does It Happen that Good Thoughts and Cares Well-pleasing to God Fail the…
Rule 81: Must We Blame Equally the Good and the Indifferent, When Both are Found…
Rule 82: Since It Says, the Elder Women as Mothers, If It Happen that the Elder Woman…
Rule 83: If a Man Does Many Things Virtuously But Stumbles in a Single One, How Shall We…
Rule 84: When a Man of Noisy and Turbulent Disposition Condemned on This Account Says…
Rule 85: Is It Lawful to Have Private Property in the Brotherhood (R. 29)
Rule 86: If a Man Say, I Neither Take Anything from the Brotherhood nor Do I Give Them…
Rule 87: Is It Lawful for an Individual to Give Away His Old Cloak or Shoes Wherever He…
88. Rule 88: What are the Cares of This Life? (R. 54)
Rule 89: Since It is Written, The Ransom of a Man’s Life is His Riches, What Shall We Do…
Rule 90: Is It Lawful to Have a Night Garment, Whether of Hair Cloth, or Any Other…
Rule 91: If a Brother Having Nothing of His Own Be Asked by Another for the Actual Thing…
Rule 92: Since the Lord Orders Us to Sell Our Possessions, with What Intention Must We Do…
Rule 93: When a Man Has Once for All Renounced His Possessions and Professed that He Has…
Rule 94: If a Man Joins the Brotherhood with Unpaid Taxes Still Due and His Family are…
Rule 95: Is It Expedient for Those Who Have Just Come, to Start Learning Scripture…
Rule 96: B May We Allow Any One Who Wishes to Learn His Letters or Have Time for Reading?…
Rule 97: If a Man Says, I Should Like to Be Benefited by a Short Stay Among You, Must We…
Rule 98: What Kind of Disposition Ought the Superior to Have When He Gives His Orders or…
Rule 99: With What Disposition Ought One to Administer Rebuke? (R. 23)
Rule 100: How Shall We Send Away Those that Come to the Door and Beg? And Ought Any One…
Rule 101: Must He that is Entrusted with the Administration of the Things Dedicated to…
Rule 102: Should a Man Who Means to Leave the Brotherhood, for Whatever Cause, Be…
Rule 103: We Have Already Been Taught that We Must Obey the Seniors Even Unto Death, But…
Rule 104: How Should the Various Duties Be Apportioned to the Brethren?
Rule 105: Ought We to Teach Arts Immediately to Those Who Come to the Brotherhood? (R.…
Rule 106: What Punishments Must We Use in the Brotherhood to Convert Sinners? (R. 194)
Rule 107: If a Man Says He Wants to Join the Brotherhood But is Hindered, as Often…
Rule 108: May the Male Superior Speak to a Sister Things that Edify the Faith in the…
Rule 109: May the Male Superior Speak Frequently with the Female Superior, Especially If…
Rule 110: When a Sister Confesses to a Senior Should the Senior Sister Be Present Too?…
Rule 111: If the Senior Has Ordered Something to Be Done Among the Sisters Without the…
Rule 112: If a Man Comes to the Life According to God is It Fitting that the Superior…
Rule 113: Can He Who is Entrusted with the Care of Souls Keep the Saying, Except Ye Turn…
Rule 114: The Lord Commands, If a Man Compels Thee to Go One Mile, Go with Him Two, and…
115. Rule 115: How We Should Obey One Another. (R. 64)
Rule 116: To What Length of Obedience Must We Go in Order to Keep the Rule of Being…
Rule 117: He that Does Not Consent to the Orders Given Him Daily with a View of…
Rule 118: What Reward Has He Who is Zealous in Keeping Commands But Does Not What He is…
Rule 119: Is a Man Allowed to Refuse the Work Assigned to Him and Seek Another? (R. 69)
Rule 120: Should a Man Go Away Anywhere Without Mentioning It to the Superior (R. 80)
121. Rule 121: Is It Lawful to Refuse the Heavier Tasks? (R. 82)
Rule 122: If a Man Punished by Being Forbidden to Receive a Blessing Says, Unless I Get a…
Rule 123: If Any Man Grieves that He is Not Allowed to Do What He Cannot Do Well Should…
Rule 124: If by Chance a Man Finds Himself with Heretics or Heathen, Must He Eat with…
Rule 125: If a Man Who is Entrusted with a Work Does Something Contrary or Over and Above…
Rule 126: How Can a Man Avoid Taking Pleasure in Eating? (R. 48)
Rule 127: Some Say that It is Impossible for a Man to Avoid Anger; is This True? (R. 79)
Rule 128: If a Man Wishes to Practise Abstinence Beyond His Strength So that He is…
Rule 129: He Who Fasts Much But When He Eats Cannot Endure Common Food Which Course…
Rule 130: How Must We Fast When a Fast is Necessary in Order to Fulfil One of the Demands…
Rule 131: Does He Act Aright Who Partakes Not of the Same Dishes as the Brethren But…
Rule 132: What of the Man Who Says, This Harms Me, and Grieves If Something Else is Not…
133. Rule 133: What If a Man Murmur Because of Food? (R. 98)
Rule 134: What of a Man in His Anger Refuses to Accept Something that He Needs? (R. 96)
Rule 135: May a Man Ask for More Than Usual When He is Fatigued? (R. 94)
Rule 136: Is It Necessary that All Should Be Gathered Together at the Hour of Lunch? And…
Rule 137: Is It Right for a Man to Decide to Abstain, for Example, for a Given Time from…
Rule 138: Is It Right that Any Man in the Brotherhood Should Be Allowed to Fast or Watch…
Rule 139: When Fasting is Prolonged We Become Enfeebled for Our Work; Which Then Had We…
Rule 140: If a Man Does Not Show Self-control as Regards Harmful Foods, But Partakes of…
Rule 141: Is It Right If Strangers are Found in the Workshops, or Even Some of the…
Rule 142: May Craftsmen Receive Work from Any Man Without the Permission of Him Who is…
Rule 143: How Should the Workmen Care for the Tools Entrusted to Them? (R. 108)
Rule 144: What If a Man Loses a Tool Through Carelessness or Spoils It Contemptuously?…
Rule 145: What If a Man Lends to Another or Borrows Anything on His Own Responsibility?…
Rule 146: But Supposing the Superior Demands a Tool from Him Owing to the Urgency of His…
Rule 147: If He Who is Engaged in the Cellar or Kitchen or Similar Work Fails to Appear…
Rule 148: What Measure of Authority in Administration Has He Who is Entrusted with the…
Rule 149: What is the Judgment on the Steward If He Does Anything with Favouritism or…
Rule 150: What If a Man Through Carelessness Fails to Give His Brother What He Needs? (R.…
Rule 151: May He Who Serves Speak with a Loud Voice? (R. 130)
Rule 152: If a Man Fulfilling His Daily Service in the Kitchen as His Turn Comes Round…
Rule 153: How Ought the Sister Who is Entrusted with the Wool to Keep It, and How Ought…
Rule 154: If It Should Happen that the Brethren, Being Few in Number and Serving a Larger…
Rule 155: We Who Serve the Sick in the Hospital are Taught to Serve Them with Such a…
Rule 156: Ought He Who is Entrusted with the Care of the Cellar or Other Place to Have…
Rule 157: With What Kind of Disposition Must One Serve God? And in General What is This…
Rule 158: With What Disposition Ought One to Receive a Punishment? (R. 24)
Rule 159: How Shall We Characterise One Who is Cross with Him that Rebukes Him? (R. 25)
Rule 160: With What Disposition Ought We to Serve the Brethren? (R. 86)
Rule 161: With What Humility Ought One to Receive Services Proffered by One’s Brother?…
Rule 162: What Manner of Love Ought We to Have Among Ourselves? (R. 38)
Rule 163: In What Way Can a Man Attain Love Towards His Neighbour? (R. 89)
Rule 164: What is the Meaning of, Judge Not, and Ye Shall Not Be Judged? (R. 77)
Rule 165: How Shall a Man Know Whether He is Moved by a Godly Zeal Against His Brother or…
Rule 166: With What Disposition Ought We to Listen to Him Who Urges Us to Keep the…
Rule 167: Of What Sort Should the Soul Be Which Has Been Counted Worthy of Being Occupied…
Rule 168: With What Disposition Must One Receive a Garment or Shoes? Of Any Kind…
Rule 169: If a Younger Brother Be Ordered to Teach Something to One Who is Senior to Him…
Rule 170: Should We Pay Heed to a Man in Proportion to His Greater or Less Degree of…
Rule 171: If an Inferior is Grieved Because One Who is More Religious is Preferred to…
Rule 172: With What Fear, What Conviction, What Disposition, Should We Receive the Body…
Rule 173: May Conversation Take Place at the Hour When the Office is Being Held Within…
Rule 174: How Can One Do the Commandment of the Lord from the Heart and Eagerly? (R. 150)
Rule 175: How Do We Discern Him that Loves His Brother According to the Commandment of…
Rule 176: Who are the Enemies We are Told to Love? And How Shall We Love Our Enemies 2 by…
Rule 177: How Ought the Strong to Bear the Infirmities of the Weak? + (R. 177)
Rule 178: What Does, Bear Ye One Another’s Burdens, Mean? And What Law Shall We Fulfil by…
Rule 179: How Can a Man Without Love Get So Great Faith as to Remove Mountains, or Give…
Rule 180: With What Disposition and Attention Ought We to Listen to What is Read to Us at…
Rule 181: If There are Brotherhoods Near One Another and One is Poor While the Other…
Rule 182: By What Fruits Should He Be Tested Who Sympathetically Rebukes His Brother When…
Rule 183: If It Should Happen that Some Living in a Brotherhood Should Have a…
Rule 184: How Can a Man Both in Exhorting and Rebuking Not Only Take Care to Speak Wisely…
Rule 185: If in the Course of a Talks a Man Rejoices as He Sees the Hearers Moved by What…
Rule 186: Since We are Taught to Have Such Love as to Lay Down Even Our Lives for Our…
Rule 187: May We Receive Anything from Our Relations According to the Flesh? (R. 81)
Rule 188: In What Light Shall We See Our Former Companions and Relations When They Visit…
Rule 189: Suppose They Urge Us, Wishing to Make Us Return Home, Should We Bear with Them?…
Rule 190: Ought We to Pity Our Relations According to the Flesh, Desiring Their…
191. Rule 191: Who is the Meek? (R. 47)
Rule 192: What are Sorrow After a Godly Sort and the Sorrow of the World? (R. 50)
Rule 193: What is Joy in the Lord? And What Things that We Do Ought to Make Us Rejoice?…
Rule 194: What Mourning are We to Assume in Order to Be Counted Worthy of a Blessing? (R.…
195. Rule 195: How Does One Do All to the Glory of God? (R. 56)
Rule 196: How Does a Man Eat and Drink to the Glory of God? (R. 57)
Rule 197: How Does the Right Hand Act So that the Left Hand Knows Not? (R. 58)
Rule 198: What is Humility and How Shall We Attain It? (R. 62)
Rule 199: How Should a Man Be Eager to Hazard Himself 1 to Meet Dangers on Behalf of the…
Rule 200: How Can Those Who Have Laboured Long in the Work of God Help New-comers? (R. 86)
201. Rule 201: How Can One Secure Attention in Prayer? (R. 108)
Rule 202: Is It Possible to Attain Continual Attention in Every Thing We Do? And How Does…
Rule 203: As Regards Virtuous Acts Done According to the Commandment of the Lord, is…
Rule 204: How is a Man Counted Worthy to Receive the Holy Spirit? (R. 124)
205. Rule 205: Who are the Poor in Spirit? (R. 125)
Rule 206: The Lord Commands Us Not to Be Anxious What We are to Eat or Drink, or Wear.…
Rule 207: If Therefore We Must Not Even Be Anxious About the Necessaries of Life, and…
Rule 208: Generally Speaking is It Good to Practise Silence (R. 136)
Rule 209: How Shall We Be Able to Fear the Judgments of God? (R. 188)
Rule 210: What is the Modest Apparel Prescribed by the Apostle? (R. 148)
211. Rule 211: What is the Measure of the Love of God? (R. 151)
212. Rule 212: How is the Love of God Attained? (R. 152)
213. Rule 213: What are the Marks of Love Towards God? (R. 153)
Rule 214: What is the Difference Between Kindness and Goodness?
Rule 215: Who is the Peacemaker Called Blessed by the Lord? (R. 160)
Rule 216: In What Way are We to Be Converted and Become as Little Children? (R. 161)
Rule 217: How Shall We Receive the Kingdom of God as a Little Child? (R. 163)
Rule 218: What Manner of Understanding Ought We to Ask from God, and How Can We Become…
Rule 219: If We Receive a Benefit from Some Man, How Can We Render to the Lord the Due…
Rule 220: Is Any One Who Wishes Allowed to Talk to Sisters 2 of Not, Who May Talk, and…
Rule 221: The Lord Teaches Us to Pray Lest We Enter into Temptation; Must We Then Pray…
Rule 222: Who is the Adversary of Each One of Us? And How Shall We Agree with Him? (R.…
Rule 223: The Lord Said, But Thou When Thou Fastest Anoint Thy Head and Wash Thy Face,…
Rule 224: Are There Some Nowadays Who Work from the First Hour and Others from the…
Rule 225: The Lord Said, Wherever Two or Three are Gathered Together in My Name, There Am…
Rule 226: The Apostle Says, Being Reviled We Bless, Being Defamed We Entreat 5; How Ought…
Rule 227: Ought Each Man to Impart His Thoughts to Others, or, Fully Convinced that What…
Rule 228: Ought One in Every Respect to Meet the Wishes of Those Who are Offended? Or are…
Rule 229: Should We Confess Forbidden Deeds to All, Suppressing Feelings of Shame, or to…
230. Rule 230: What is Service, and What is Reasonable Service?
Rule 231: If a Brother Behaves Badly Towards Me and Shows Enmity to Me, or Sometimes…
Rule 232: If a Man Injured by Some One Tells No Man from a Motive of Long-suffering and…
Rule 233: If a Man Does Everything Well But Fails in One Respect, Will He Miss Salvation…
234. Rule 234: How Does One Proclaim the Death of the Lord?
Rule 235: Is It Expedient to Learn Much by Heart from the Scriptures?
Rule 236: How Ought They Who Have Been Counted Worthy to Learn the Four Gospels to…
Rule 237: What Manner of Soul is Directed by the Will of God?
Rule 238: Is It Possible to Sing Psalms or Read or Engage in Serious Conversation About…
Rule 239: What is the Good Treasure and What the Evil? (R. 135)
Rule 240: Why is the Gate Called Wide and the Way Broad Which Leadeth to Destruction? (R.…
Rule 241: How is the Gate Narrow and the Way Straitened that Leadeth Unto Life, and How…
Rule 242: What Does, In Love of the Brethren Tenderly Affectioned One to Another, Mean?
Rule 243: What Does the Apostle Mean by Saying, Be Ye Angry and Sin Not; Let Not the Sun…
244. Rule 244: What Does, Give Place Unto Wrath, Mean? (R. 158)
Rule 245: Who is Wise as a Serpent and Harmless as a Dove? (R. 162)
Rule 246: What Does, Love Doth Not Behave Itself Unseemly,T Mean? (R. 165)
Rule 247: The Scripture Says, Boast Not and Speak Not High Things; and the Apostle in One…
Rule 248: If the Lord Gives Wisdom and from His Face is Knowledge and Understanding; and…
249. Rule 249: What is Holy and What is Just? (R. 170)
Rule 250: How Does One Give What is Holy Unto the Dogs? Or Cast Pearls Before Swine? Or…
Rule 251: How Does the Lord in One Place Forbid to Carry Purse and Wallet for the Way and…
Rule 252: What is the Daily Bread Which We are Taught to Pray May Be Given Us Each Day?…
253. Rule 253: What is the Talent, and How Shall We Multiply at?
Rule 254: What is the Bank in Which, Saith the Lord, Thou Shouldest Have Put Thy Money?
Rule 255: Where Was He Bidden to Go Away Who Was Told, Take Up that Which is Thine and Go…
Rule 256: What is the Reward that These We Have Been Talking of Receive Equally with the…
Rule 257: Who are the Chaff that is Burnt with Unquenchable Fire?
Rule 258: Who is the Man Condemned by the Apostle, He Who of His Own Will in Humility and…
259. Rule 259: Who is the Fervent in Spirit?
Rule 260: The Apostle Says in One Place, Be Ye Not Foolish, and in Another, Be Not Wise…
Rule 261: The Lord Promised, All Things, Whatsoever Ye Shall Ask in Prayer, Believing, Ye…
Rule 262: Whereas Scripture Puts Poverty and Need in the Category of Things Praised, as…
Rule 263: What Does the Lord Wish to Teach by the Examples Which He Gives Ending with the…
Rule 264: When the Apostle Says, That Ye Be Sincere, and Again, But as of Sincerity, What…
Rule 265: Are the Words, If Thou Art Offering Thy Gift at the Altar, and There…
Rule 266: What is the Salt Which the Lord Ordered Us to Have When He Said, Have Salt in…
Rule 267: If One Man Shall Be Beaten with Many, Another with Few Stripes, How Do Some Say…
Rule 268: In What Sense are Some Men Called Sons of Disobedience and Children of Wrath?
Rule 269: It is Written, Doing the Desires of the Flesh and of the Thoughts. Is There Any…
Rule 270: What is the Meaning of, Perplexed Yet Not Unto Despair?
Rule 271: In View of the Lord’s Words, Howbeit Give for Alms Those Things Which are…
Rule 272: Since It is a Commandment of the Lord Not to Be Anxious About the Morrow, How…
Rule 273: What is It by Doing Which a Man Blasphemes Against the Holy Spirit?
Rule 274: How Does a Man Become Foolish in This World? (R. 203)
Rule 275: Does the Passage, I Paul Purposed to Come Once and Again, and Satan Hindered…
Rule 276: What is the Meaning of the Apostle’s Words, That Ye May Prove What is the Good…
Rule 277: What is the Inner Chamber Which the Lord Commands Him Who Prays to Enter?
Rule 278: How Does a Man’s Spirit Pray While His Understanding Remains Without Fruit?
Rule 279: What Does, Sing Psalms Intelligently, Mean? (R. 110)
280. Rule 280: Who is the Pure in Heart? (R. 148)
Rule 281: Should the Sister Who Does Not Want to Sing Psalms Be Compelled to?
Rule 282: Who are They Who Say, We Did Eat and Drink in Thy Presence, and are Told, I…
Rule 283: Is the Man Who Does the Will of Another His Accomplice? (R. 120)
Rule 284: If a Brotherhood Falls into Poverty 8 Owing to Calamity or Disease, May 1…
Rule 285: Should One Brotherhood Trading with Another Be Solicitous About the Proper…
Rule 286: Must We Remove to a Hospital a Resident in a Brotherhood Who Falls Ill?
287. Rule 287: What are the Fruits Worthy of Repentance? (R. 19)
Rule 288: Ought He Who Wishes to Confess His Sins to Confess to All and Sundry? If Not,…
Rule 289: What Shall He Do Who Having Repented of a Sin Falls Again into the Same Sin?…
Rule 290: How Does a Man Always Abound in the Work of the Lord?
Rule 291: What is a Bruised Reed or Smoking Flax? And How Will One Not Break the One or…
Rule 292: Should There Be in the Brotherhood a School for Children Who Belong to the…
Rule 293: How are We to Deal with Those Who Avoid Greater Sins But Commit Small Sins…
Rule 294: For What Cause Does a Man Lose the Continuous Remembrance of God?
295. Rule 295: By What Signs is the Waverer Recognised?
Rule 296: How Shall the Soul Be Persuaded that It is Pure from Sin?
297. Rule 297: How Should One Turn from Sins?
Rule 298: Does Scripture Allow Us to Do Good According to Individual Pleasure?
Rule 299: How May the Soul Feel Assured that It is Free from Love of Glory?
Rule 300: What is the Manner of Conversion When We are Concerned with Something Invisible?
Rule 301: But If a Man Says, My Conscience Does Not Condemn Me?
Rule 302: Is It Right to Give to Outsiders Who are Needy Out of the Common Store?
Rule 303: Ought One in the Brotherhood to Obey What is Said by Every One?
Rule 304: If Relatives of Those Who Join the Brotherhood Want to Make a Gift, May We…
Rule 305: Should We Accept Anything from Those Outside Either for the Sake of Friendship…
306. Rule 306: How Does One Avoid Wandering Thoughts?
Rule 307: Should the Leading Off in Psalmody or Prayer Be by Turns?
Rule 308: In the Brotherhood Should a Donor Be Requited? And Should a Return Be Made Him…
310. Rule 310: Should the Offering Be Made in an Ordinary House?
Rule 311: If Asked by Some to Visit Them, Should We Consent?
Rule 312: Should We Exhort the Laity Who Visit Us to Prayer?
313. Rule 313: Ought We to Work When People Visit Us?