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St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925
33. Rule 33: How is One Convicted of Men-pleasing? (R. 59)
When he shows eagerness when with those who praise him, but is backward with those who blame him. For if he wishes to please the Lord he is always and everywhere the same, fulfilling the words: ‘By the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, by glory and dishonour; by evil report and good report, as deceivers and yet true.”1
Notes
- 2 Cor. vi. 7; 8.