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The Church Fathers · c. 397
The Rule
Augustine of Hippo · 354–430
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What it is
A short rule for a community holding everything in common, opening with the command to live in one mind and heart on the way to God.
Why it lasted
The oldest monastic rule in the West, later adopted by the Dominicans, the Augustinian canons, and dozens of later orders.
Scripture it works from
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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