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

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To Athanasius, bishop of Alex<strong>and</strong>ria.To Athanasius, bishop of Alex<strong>and</strong>ria.Letter LXXX. 2276The worse the diseases of the Churches grow, the more do we all turn to your excellency,in the belief that your championship is the one consolation left to us in our troubles. Bythe power of your prayers, <strong>and</strong> your knowledge of what is the best course to suggest in theemergency, you are believed to be able to save us from this terrible tempest by all alike whoknow your excellency even to a small extent, whether by hearsay or by personal experience.Wherefore, cease not, I implore, to pray for our souls <strong>and</strong> to rouse us by your letters. Didyou but know of what service these are to us you would never have lost a single opportunityof writing. Could I only, by the aid of your prayers, be deemed worthy of seeing you, <strong>and</strong>of enjoying your good qualities, <strong>and</strong> of adding to the story of my life a meeting with yourtruly great <strong>and</strong> apostolical soul, then I should indeed believe that I had received from God’smercy a consolation equivalent to all the afflictions of my life.1722276 Placed in 371 or early in 372.507

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