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

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To Eusebius, bishop of Samosata.appear united with those who maintain the same views as Euippius, through the mediationof these amiable <strong>and</strong> charming persons.3. Not that I think it is absolutely our duty to cut ourselves off from those who do notreceive the faith, but rather to have regard to them in accordance with the old law of love,<strong>and</strong> to write to them with one consent, giving them all exhortation with pity, <strong>and</strong> to proposeto them the faith of the fathers, <strong>and</strong> invite them to union. If we succeed we should be unitedin communion with them; if we fail we must be content with one another <strong>and</strong> purge ourconduct of this uncertain spirit, restoring the evangelical <strong>and</strong> simple conversation followedby those who accepted the Word from the beginning. “They,” it is said, “were of one heart<strong>and</strong> of one soul.” 2426 If they obey you, this will be best; if not, recognise the real authors ofthe war, <strong>and</strong>, for the future do not write me any more letters about reconciliation.2426 Acts iv. 32.571

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