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

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To Aburgius.Letter XXXIII. 2013To Aburgius. 2014Who knows so well as you do how to respect an old friendship, to pay reverence to virtue,<strong>and</strong> to sympathise with the sick? Now my God-beloved brother Gregory the bishop hasbecome involved in matters which would be under any circumstances disagreeable, <strong>and</strong> arequite foreign to his bent of mind. I have therefore thought it best to throw myself on yourprotection, <strong>and</strong> to endeavour to obtain from you some solution of our difficulties. It is reallyan intolerable state of things that one who is neither by nature nor inclination adapted foranything of the kind should be compelled to be thus responsible; that dem<strong>and</strong>s for moneyshould be made on a poor man; <strong>and</strong> that one who has long determined to pass his life inretirement should be dragged into publicity. It would depend upon your wise counselwhether you think it of any use to address the Comes Thesaurorum or any other persons.2013 Placed in 369.2014 cf. Ep. xxxiii., lxxv., cxlvii., clxxviii., ccciv., <strong>and</strong> also cxcvi., though the last is also attributed to Greg. Naz.He was an important lay compatriot of <strong>Basil</strong>. Tillemont was of opinion that the dear brother Gregory referredto in this letter is Gregory of Nyssa; but Maran points out that the events referred to are the same as those describedin Letter xxxii., <strong>and</strong> supposes the word episcopus to have been inserted by a commentator.421

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