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St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925
Rule 158: With What Disposition Ought One to Receive a Punishment? (R. 24)
Such as befits a son who is sick and at death’s door, and receives treatment at the hands of one who is at once his father and a doctor; though the method of treatment is bitter and painful, yet he must be fully convinced of both the love and the experience of him who inflicts the punishment and must desire to be healed.