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St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925
Rule 150: What If a Man Through Carelessness Fails to Give His Brother What He Needs? (R.…
His condemnation is clear from the Lord’s words: Depart from me, ye cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink etc.”1 And: “Cursed be every man that doeth the works of the Lord negligently.”2
Notes
- Mt. xxv. 41 add of before κατηραμένοι K; 42.
- Jer. xlviii. 10. Sw. (B) omits née.