ἐξ
οἰκονομίας.
In Ep. xxxi. Basil begins a letter to Eusebius of
Samosata: “The dearth has not yet left us, we are
therefore compelled still to remain in the town, either for
stewardship’s sake or for sympathy with the
afflicted.” Here the Benedictines’ note is
Sæpe apud Basilium οικονομία
dicitur id quod pauperibus distribuitur. Vituperat in
Comment. in Isa. præsules qui male partam pecuniam accipiunt
vel ad suos usus, ἢ
ἐπὶ
λόγῳ τῆς τῶν
πτωχευόντων
ἐν τῇ
᾽Εκκλησί& 139·
οἰκονομίας,
vel per causam distribuendi pauperibus Ecclesiæ. In
Epistola 92 Orientales inter mala Ecclesiæ illud etiam
deplorant quod ambitiosi præsules οἰκονομ as
πτωχῶν, pecunias
pauperibus destinatas in suos usus convertant.