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St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925
Rule 250: How Does One Give What is Holy Unto the Dogs? Or Cast Pearls Before Swine? Or…
The apostle explains clearly to us when he adds to what he has said against the Jews: “Thou who gloriest in the law, through thy transgression of the law dishonourest thou God?”2 So here the Lord forbade the dishonour with which we dishonour the holy words of the Lord when we transgress them. From which transgression it happens both that those outside the faith consider the teachings of the Lord can be easily despised and because of them they rise against us more boldly and as it were tear the transgressor with reproaches and rebukes.
Notes
- Mt. vii. 6.
- Rom. ii. 23.