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Shorter Rules
St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925
Rule 144: What If a Man Loses a Tool Through Carelessness or Spoils It Contemptuously?…
Let him that spoils it be judged sacrilegious, and he that loses it guilty of sacrilege, since they are all dedicated to the Lord and offered to God.1
Notes
- Cf. Ben. Reg. xxxi.; see above.