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

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To Theodotus bishop of Nicopolis.never at any time been so grieved as I am now, on hearing of this confusion of the laws ofthe Church. Pray only that the Lord grant me to take no step in anger, but to maintaincharity, which behaveth itself not unseemly <strong>and</strong> is not puffed up. 2434 Only look how menwithout charity have been lifted up beyond all human bounds <strong>and</strong> conduct themselves inan unseemly manner, daring deeds which have no precedent in all the past. 24352434 1 Cor. xiii. 5 <strong>and</strong> 4.2435 There is no other mention in <strong>Basil</strong>’s letters of Eustathius being guilty of re-ordination. The Ben. note,however, states that <strong>Basil</strong> is not accurate in saying that there was no heretical precedent for such proceedings.The Arians are charged with it in the Book of Prayers of Faustus <strong>and</strong> Marcellinus, Bib. Patr.v. 655. cf. also theletter of Constantius to the Ethiopians against Frumentius. Athan., Apol. ad Const. § 31.575

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