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

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<strong>Basil</strong> to Gregory.persuade you to come here <strong>and</strong> assist me in my labours, particularly in my contest with theindividual who is now assailing me. Your very appearance will have the effect of stoppinghim; directly you show these disturbers of our home that you will, by God’s blessing, placeyourself at the head of our party, you will break up their cabal, <strong>and</strong> you will shut every unjustmouth that speaketh unrighteousness against God. And thus facts will show who are yourfollowers in good, <strong>and</strong> who are the halters <strong>and</strong> cowardly betrayers of the word of truth. If,however, the Church be betrayed, why then I shall care little to set men right about myself,by means of words, who account of me as men would naturally account who have not yetlearned to measure themselves. Perhaps, in a short time, by God’s grace, I shall be able torefute their sl<strong>and</strong>ers by very deed, for it seems likely that I shall have soon to suffer somewhatfor the truth’s sake more than usual; the best I can expect is banishment, or, if this hopefails, after all Christ’s judgment-seat is not far distant. [If then you ask for a meeting for theChurches’ sake, I am ready to betake myself whithersoever you invite me. But if it is onlya question of refuting these sl<strong>and</strong>ers, I really have no time to reply to them.]495

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