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Nicene and Post-Nicene Church Fathers Series 2 - The Still Small ...

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gloomy <strong>and</strong> needs more careful treatment. We are lamenting no mere overthrow of earthly<br />

buildings, but the capture of <strong>Church</strong>es; what we see before us is no mere bodily slavery, but<br />

a carrying away of souls into captivity, perpetrated day by day by the champions of heresy.<br />

Should you not, even now, be moved to succour us, ere long all will have fallen under the<br />

dominion of the heresy, <strong>and</strong> you will find none left to whom you may hold out your h<strong>and</strong>.<br />

referred to by Basil took place in the time of Gallienus, when the Scythians ravaged Cappadocia <strong>and</strong> the neigh-<br />

bouring countries. (cf. Sozomen, ii. 6.) Dionysius succeeded Sixtus II. at Rome in 259.<br />

Without address.<br />

493<br />

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