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

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To Callisthenes.for them, by being punished here by our laws, wherein too lies your own hope of salvation,both to release you from your oath <strong>and</strong> to undergo a penalty commensurate with their faults.But once more I am making my letter too long. In the very earnest desire to persuadeyou I cannot bear to leave unsaid any of the pleas which occur to me, <strong>and</strong> I am much afraidlest my entreaty should prove ineffectual from my failing to say all that may convey mymeaning. Now, true <strong>and</strong> honoured son of the Church, confirm the hopes which I have ofyou; prove true all the testimony unanimously given to your placability <strong>and</strong> gentleness.Give orders to the soldier to leave me without delay; he is now as tiresome <strong>and</strong> rude as hecan well be; he evidently prefers giving no cause of annoyance to you to making all of ushere his close friends.498

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