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St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925

Rule 216: In What Way are We to Be Converted and Become as Little Children? (R. 161)

This section of the Gospel itself teaches us, by showing the purpose for which this was said. So that we should not seek pre-eminence, but recognise that we are all by nature of equal honour, and love to be honoured equally with those who seem to fall short of us in some things. For such are children in their relations with one another, those of them at least who have not yet grown accustomed to the baseness of those with whom they live.

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