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St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925
Rule 192: What are Sorrow After a Godly Sort and the Sorrow of the World? (R. 50)
Sorrow after a godly sort is when a man sorrows at the neglect of a commandment of God; as it is written: Dejection took hold of me because of the sinners that forsake thy law.”1 Sorrow of the world is when that which causes sorrow is human and worthy of the world.
Notes
- Ps. cxix. 53.