Day 11: Chapter 2: What Kind of Man the Abbot Ought to Be

Therefore, when anyone receives the name of Abbot,
he ought to govern his disciples with a twofold teaching.
That is to say,
he should show them all that is good and holy
by his deeds even more than by his words,
expounding the Lord's commandments in words
to the intelligent among his disciples,
but demonstrating the divine precepts by his actions
for those of harder hearts and ruder minds.
And whatever he has taught his disciples
to be contrary to God's law,
let him indicate by his example that it is not to be done,
lest, while preaching to others, he himself be found reprobate (1 Cor. 9:27),
and lest God one day say to him in his sin,
"Why do you declare My statutes
and profess My covenant with your lips,
whereas you hate discipline
and have cast My words behind you" (Ps. 49[50]:16-17)?
And again,
"You were looking at the speck in your brother's eye,
and did not see the beam in your own" (Matt. 7:3).