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St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925
Rule 155: We Who Serve the Sick in the Hospital are Taught to Serve Them with Such a…
Since the Lord said: ‘Whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, he is my brother and sister and mother,”2 if a man is not such as is described, but is convicted of being a sinner worthy of that sentence: “He that committeth sin is the bondservant of sin,”3 he needs first of all exhortation and admonition from the Superior. But if he persists in the same conduct, the condemnation pronounced by the same Lord clearly rests upon him: “The bondservant abideth not in the house,”4 and that by the apostle who advised: “Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.”5 In this way those who serve will be free from doubt and all who live together will be in safety.’
Notes
- * See B. 186, question.
- Mt. xii. 50 ὅς for ὅστις*, οὗτος for αὖτος.
- Jn. viii. 34.
- Jn. viii. 35.
- 1 Cor. v. 13.” B.’s philanthropy was based on passages of the N.T. other than those of the Sermon on the Mount which appeal most to-day.