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THERE is current a saying of S. Basil, Bishop of Caesarea, directed
against a certain Syncletius, who was growing indifferent with the sort of
lukewarmness of which we have spoken; who, though he professed to have
renounced this world, had yet kept back for himself some of his property,
not liking to be supported by the labour of his own hands, and to acquire
true humility by stripping himself and by grinding toil, and the subjection
of the monastery: "You have," said he, "spoilt Syncletius, and not made a
monk."
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