Reprimand and rebuke should be accepted as healing remedies for vice and as conducive to good health. From … - Saint Basil

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Saint Basil

Reprimand and rebuke should be accepted as healing remedies for vice and as conducive to good health. From this it is clear that those who pretend to be tolerant because they wish to flatter---those who thus fail to correct sinners---actually cause them to suffer supreme loss and plot the destruction of that life which is their true life.

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