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St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925
Rule 84: When a Man of Noisy and Turbulent Disposition Condemned on This Account Says…
This frame of mind was long ago condemned as heretical; for it is both blasphemous and impious and renders the soul prone to sin. So let the man be either corrected or expelled, lest it come to pass that “a little leaven corrupteth the whole lump.”2
Notes
- Cf. Hom. Quod Deus etc.
- 1 Cor. v. 6.