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Shorter Rules

St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925

Rule 180: With What Disposition and Attention Ought We to Listen to What is Read to Us at…

With far greater pleasure than we eat and drink, that the mind may be shown not to be distracted by the pleasures of the body, but delighting rather in the words of the Lord, in fashion like unto him who said: Sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.”2

Notes

  1. Cassian Inst. iv. 17 says this custom is of Cappadocian not Egyptian origin.
  2. Ps. xix. 10.

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