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St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925

Rule 217: How Shall We Receive the Kingdom of God as a Little Child? (R. 163)

If we become such as regards the teaching of the Lord as the child is when he learns, not contradicting nor contending with his teachers, but receiving their teaching faithfully and with docility.