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

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never at any time been so grieved as I am now, on hearing of this confusion of the laws of<br />

the <strong>Church</strong>. Pray only that the Lord grant me to take no step in anger, but to maintain<br />

charity, which behaveth itself not unseemly <strong>and</strong> is not puffed up. 2434 Only look how men<br />

without charity have been lifted up beyond all human bounds <strong>and</strong> conduct themselves in<br />

an unseemly manner, daring deeds which have no precedent in all the past. 2435<br />

2434 1 Cor. xiii. 5 <strong>and</strong> 4.<br />

2435 <strong>The</strong>re is no other mention in Basil’s letters of Eustathius being guilty of re-ordination. <strong>The</strong> Ben. note,<br />

however, states that Basil is not accurate in saying that there was no heretical precedent for such proceedings.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Arians are charged with it in the Book of Prayers of Faustus <strong>and</strong> Marcellinus, Bib. Patr.v. 655. cf. also the<br />

letter of Constantius to the Ethiopians against Frumentius. Athan., Apol. ad Const. § 31.<br />

To <strong>The</strong>odotus bishop of Nicopolis.<br />

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