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

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To Gregory my brother.to me <strong>and</strong> shared my troubles. For it is said, “Brethren <strong>and</strong> help are against time oftrouble.” 2214 If the right reverend bishops are really willing to meet me, let them makeknown to me a place <strong>and</strong> time, <strong>and</strong> let them invite me by their own men. I do not refuse tomeet my own uncle, but I shall not do so unless the invitation reaches me in due <strong>and</strong> properform. 22152214 Eccles. xl. 24.2215 Negat <strong>Basil</strong>ius se adfuturum, nisi decenter advocetur, id est, nist mittantur qui eum in indictum locumdeducant. Erat <strong>Basil</strong>ius, ut in ejus modi officiis exhibendis diligentissimus, ita etiam in reposcendis attentus.Meletius Antiochenus et Theodorus Nicopolitanus, cum <strong>Basil</strong>ium ad celebritatem quamdam obiter advocassentper Hellenium Nazianzi Peræquatorem, nec iterum misissent qui de visdem admoneret aut deduceret; displicuit<strong>Basil</strong>io perfunctoria invit<strong>and</strong>i ratio, ac veritus ne suspectus illis esset, adesse noluit.” Note by Ben. Ed.475

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