Preach the word; be diligent in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
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Benedict of Nursia
AD 547
In his teaching the abbot is ever to observe this rule of the apostle: “Reprove, beseech, correct.” This consists in a judicious timing: to mix gentleness with sternness—at one time to show the severity of a master, at another the tenderness of a father. Use rigor with the irregular and the turbulent, but win to better things the obedient, mild and patient. Rule of St.
