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

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To Jovinus, Bishop of Perrha.To Jovinus, Bishop of Perrha. 2394Letter CXVIII. 2393192You owe me a good turn. For I lent you a kindness, which I ought to get back with interest;—akind of interest, this, which our Lord does not refuse. Pay me, then, my friend,by paying me a visit. So much for the capital; what of the increment? It is the fact of thevisit being paid by you, who are a man as much superior to me, as fathers are better thanchildren.2393 Placed at the end of 372 or the beginning of 373.2394 The mss. vary between Jovinus <strong>and</strong> Jobinus. cf. Theodoret, Ecc. Hist. iv. 13.557

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