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Shorter Rules

St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925

Rule 223: The Lord Said, But Thou When Thou Fastest Anoint Thy Head and Wash Thy Face,…

This precept applies to those who study to do the commandment of God to be seen of men, that they may cure the fault of men-pleasing. For that the commandment of the Lord, when done for God’s glory, is by nature unfitted to be hidden from those that love God, the Lord showed when He said: “A city set on a hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a lamp and set it under a bushel etc.”2

Notes

  1. Mt. vi. 17.
  2. Mt. v. 14; 15.

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