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St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925
Rule 188: In What Light Shall We See Our Former Companions and Relations When They Visit…
As the Lord declared and taught when it was told Him: “1 Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to see thee.” Then He answered His informants in a tone of rebuke, saying: “Who is my mother, and who are my brethren? For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.”2
Notes
- 1(C/.F 32. Mt. xii. 47 conflated with Lk. viii. 20 **; 48; ὃς for ὅστις, οὗτος for αὐτός. 8 R. “si probauerit ille qui praeest.”
- Lk. ix. 61 add ἀπελθεῖν al *; 62.