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St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925

Rule 143: How Should the Workmen Care for the Tools Entrusted to Them? (R. 108)

First of all as things consecrated and offered to God²; secondly remembering that without them they cannot render the diligent service that is due from them.³

Notes

σκεύη.
Ben. Reg. xxxi.: “let him look upon all the vessels (vasa = σκεύη) of the monastery and all its substance as consecrated, just as much as the altar vessels.”
R., altering the sense: “deinde tamquam qui non possint sine ipsis devotionis et studii sui emolumenta consequi.”