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Shorter Rules

St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925

Rule 125: If a Man Who is Entrusted with a Work Does Something Contrary or Over and Above…

To take anything for oneself is absolutely displeasing to God; and it is neither fitting nor expedient in those who are desirous to keep the bond of peace. But if a man persists in his recklessness it is expedient that his work be taken from him.1 For he does not keep the command of him that said: ‘Brethren, let each man, wherein he was called, therein abide.”2 And in more moving words: “Not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but so to think as to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to each man a measure of faith.”3

Notes

  1. Illustrations occur to the mind from modern trade-union practice.
  2. 1 Cor. vii. 24.
  3. Rom. xii. 3. Cf. Ep. xxii. 2, for this answer.

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