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

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To the Italians <strong>and</strong> Gauls.Letter XCII. 2309To the Italians <strong>and</strong> Gauls.1. To our right godly <strong>and</strong> holy brethren who are ministering in Italy <strong>and</strong> Gaul, bishopsof like mind with us, we, Meletius, 2310 Eusebius, 2311 <strong>Basil</strong>, 2312 Bassus, 2313 Gregory, 2314Pelagius, 2315 Paul, Anthimus, 2316 Theodotus, 2317 Bithus, 2318 Abraamius, 2319 Jobinus,Zeno, 2320 Theodoretus, Marcianus, Barachus, Abraamius, 2321 Libanius, Thalassius, Joseph,Boethus, Iatrius, 2322 Theodotus, Eustathius, 2323 Barsumas, John, Chosroes, Iosaces, 2324Narses, Maris, Gregory, 2325 <strong>and</strong> Daphnus, send greeting in the Lord. Souls in anguish findsome consolation in sending sigh after sigh from the bottom of the heart, <strong>and</strong> even a tearshed breaks the force of affliction. But sighs <strong>and</strong> tears give us less consolation than the opportunityof telling our troubles to your love. We are moreover cheered by the better hopethat, peradventure, if we announce our troubles to you, we may move you to give us thatsuccour which we have long hoped you would give the Churches in the East, but which wehave not yet received; God, Who in His wisdom arranges all things, must have ordainedaccording to the hidden judgments of His righteousness, that we should be tried for a longertime in these temptations. The fame of our condition has travelled to the ends of the earth,<strong>and</strong> you are not ignorant of it; nor are you without sympathy with brethren of like mindwith yourselves, for you are disciples of the apostle, who teaches us that love for our neigh-2309 Placed in 372.2310 Of Antioch.2311 Of Samosata.2312 Of Cæsarea.2313 Tillemont conjectures Barses of Edessa.2314 Of Nazianzus, the elder.2315 Of Laodicea.2316 Of Tyana.2317 Of Nicopolis.2318 Vitus of Carrhæ.2319 Of Batnæ. cf. Letter cxxxii.2320 Of Tyre.2321 Of Urimi in Syria.2322 For Iatrius, Maran would read Otreius of Melitine.2323 Of Sebasteia.2324 Maran would read Isaaces, <strong>and</strong> identify him with the Isacoces of Armenia Major.2325 Probably of Nyssa, lately consecrated.523

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