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NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works - Holy Bible Institute

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To Eustathius the Philosopher.beyond Indian Nyssa, 1742 or any more remote region, <strong>and</strong> w<strong>and</strong>ered about out there. Whysay more?On returning home, I cannot meet you, hindered by lingering ailments. If these do notget better I shall not be able to meet you even in the winter. Is not all this, as you yourselfsay, due to Fate? Is not this Necessity? Does not my case nearly outdo poets’ tales of Tantalus?But, as I said, I feel better after getting your letter, <strong>and</strong> am now no longer of the samemind. When God gives good things I think we must thank Him, <strong>and</strong> not be angry withHim while He is controlling their distribution. So if He grant me to join you, I shall thinkit best <strong>and</strong> most delightful; if He put me off, I will gently endure the loss. For He alwaysrules our lives better than we could choose for ourselves.1742 Νύσιος=᾽Ινδικός. cf. Soph. Aj. 707. Nyssa was in the Punjab.358

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