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St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925
Rule 146: But Supposing the Superior Demands a Tool from Him Owing to the Urgency of His…
How can a man who has given himself and his members1 to serve others’ needs in the love of Christ dispute about tools with the Superior to whom the care even of tools belongs?
Notes
- Cf. Ben. Reg. lviii.: ‘for he knows that henceforward he will not have power even over his own body.”