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St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925
Rule 91: If a Brother Having Nothing of His Own Be Asked by Another for the Actual Thing…
Whether he be naked or wicked, whether he ask from need or from avarice, we have said once for all, that to give or receive does not belong to every one but to him who has been entrusted with such a stewardship after testing. And let this principle be observed:1 Let each man abide in that wherein he was called.”2
Notes
- Cf. F.22; Ep.cl 3. 41 Cor. vii. 20 ἐν ᾧ ... τούτῳ for ἐν τῇ κλήσει ἧ ... ἐν ταύτῃ **,
- See note on B. 85, and cf. F. 18, Hom. Quod Deus etc.