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

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Without address.gloomy <strong>and</strong> needs more careful treatment. We are lamenting no mere overthrow of earthlybuildings, but the capture of Churches; what we see before us is no mere bodily slavery, buta carrying away of souls into captivity, perpetrated day by day by the champions of heresy.Should you not, even now, be moved to succour us, ere long all will have fallen under thedominion of the heresy, <strong>and</strong> you will find none left to whom you may hold out your h<strong>and</strong>.167referred to by <strong>Basil</strong> took place in the time of Gallienus, when the Scythians ravaged Cappadocia <strong>and</strong> the neighbouringcountries. (cf. Sozomen, ii. 6.) Dionysius succeeded Sixtus II. at Rome in 259.493

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