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

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To the presbyter Pœonius.Letter CXXXIV. 2442To the presbyter Pœonius.You may conjecture from what it contains, what pleasure you have given me by yourletter. The pureness of heart, from which such expressions sprang, was plainly signified bywhat you wrote. A streamlet tells of its own spring, <strong>and</strong> so the manner of speech marks theheart from which it came. I must confess that an extraordinary <strong>and</strong> improbable thing hashappened to me. For deeply anxious as I always was to receive a letter from your excellency,when I had taken your letter into my h<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> had read it, I was not so much pleased atwhat you had written, as annoyed at reckoning up the loss I had suffered in your long silence.Now that you have begun to write, pray do not leave off. You will give me greater pleasurethan men can give by sending much money to misers. I have had no writer with me, neithercaligraphist, nor short-h<strong>and</strong>. Of all those whom I happen to employ, some have returnedto their former mode of life, <strong>and</strong> others are unfit for work from long sickness.2442 Placed in 373.580

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