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NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works - Holy Bible Institute

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To the assessor in the case of monks.To the assessor in the case of monks.Letter CCLXXXIV. 3243Concerning the monks, your excellency has, I believe, already rules in force, so that Ineed ask for no special favour on their behalf.It is enough that they share with others the enjoyment of your general beneficence; stillI feel it incumbent upon me too to interest myself in their case. I therefore submit it to yourmore perfect judgment, that men who have long since taken leave of this life, who havemortified their own bodies, so that they have neither money to spend nor bodily service torender in the interests of the common weal, should be exempted from taxation. For if theirlives are consistent with their profession, they possess neither money nor bodies; for theformer is spent in communicating to the needy; while their bodies are worn away in prayer<strong>and</strong> fasting.Men living such lives you will, I know, regard with special reverence; nay you will wishto secure their intervention, since by their life in the Gospel they are able to prevail withGod.3133243 Placed in the episcopate.853

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