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

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3. You must not refuse to believe what I say, unless you regard me as quite a desperate<br />

character, who thinks nothing of the great sin of lying. Put away all suspicion of me in relation<br />

to the business, <strong>and</strong> for the future reckon my affection for you as beyond the reach of<br />

all calumny. Imitate Alex<strong>and</strong>er, who received a letter, saying that his physician was plotting<br />

his death, at the very moment when he was just about to drink his medicine, <strong>and</strong> was so far<br />

from believing the sl<strong>and</strong>erer that he at one <strong>and</strong> the same time read the letter <strong>and</strong> drank the<br />

draught. 3228 I refuse to admit that I am in any way inferior to the men who have been<br />

famous for their friendship, for I have never been detected in any breach of mine; <strong>and</strong>, besides<br />

this, I have received from my God the comm<strong>and</strong>ment of love, <strong>and</strong> owe you love not only<br />

as part of mankind in general, but because I recognise you individually as a benefactor both<br />

of my country <strong>and</strong> of myself.<br />

3228 Plut., Alex.<br />

To Sophronius the magister officiorum.<br />

841<br />

310

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