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

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To Peter, bishop of Alex<strong>and</strong>ria.To Peter, bishop of Alex<strong>and</strong>ria. 2441Letter CXXXIII.The sight of the eyes brings about bodily friendship, <strong>and</strong> long companionship strengthensit, but genuine regard is the gift of the Spirit, Who unites what is separated by long distances,<strong>and</strong> makes friends known to one another, not by bodily qualities, but by the characteristicsof the soul. The grace of the Lord has granted me this favour, by permitting me to see youwith the soul’s eye, <strong>and</strong> to embrace you with genuine affection, <strong>and</strong> as it were, to be drawnvery near to you, <strong>and</strong> to come into close union with you in the communion of faith. I amsure that you, disciple as you are of so great a man, <strong>and</strong> long associated with him, will walkin the same spirit <strong>and</strong> follow the same doctrines of true religion. Under these circumstancesI address your excellency, <strong>and</strong> beseech you that among the other things in which you havesucceeded that great man, you will succeed him in love to me, that you will frequently writeme news of you, <strong>and</strong> will give heed to the brotherhood all over the world with the same affection<strong>and</strong> the same zeal which that most blessed man always showed to all that love Godin truth.2441 Peter II. succeeded Athanasius in May, 373. Athanasius died May 2.579

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