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As a priest and then bishop, St. Basil the Great devoted sophisticated treatises to the Trinity and to articulating his vision of the Christian life. In his homilies, Basil distilled the best of his moral and theological teachings into forms readily accessible to his flock, and now to us. During his lifetime, Basil was recognized as one of the foremost rhetoricians of his day—a man supremely...

all his remaining wealth as belonging no more to himself than to anyone in need. Anyone who does not adopt this attitude in these matters is to be held as pitiable rather than looked upon with envy because his opportunities for being evil are greater. For this is nothing more than to be destroyed by a great deal of exertion and trouble. Now if riches are a gateway to wickedness, the rich man is pitiable. But if they are of service for virtue, jealousy is out of place since all alike benefit from
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