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

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To Eusebius, bishop of Samosata.in Sebasteia have stripped the covering from the secret sore of the unorthodoxy of Eustathius,<strong>and</strong> dem<strong>and</strong> my ecclesiastical care. 2453Iconium is a city of Pisidia, anciently the first after the greatest, 2454 <strong>and</strong> now it is capitalof a part, consisting of an union of different portions, <strong>and</strong> allowed the government of adistinct province. Iconium too calls me to visit her <strong>and</strong> to give her a bishop; for Faustinus 2455is dead. Whether I ought to shrink from consecrations over the border; what answer I oughtto give to the Sebastenes; what attitude I should show to the propositions of Evagrius; allthese are questions to which I was anxious to get answers in a personal interview with you,for here in my present weakness I am cut off from everything. If, then, you can find anyone soon coming this way, be so good as to give me your answer on them all. If not, praythat what is pleasing to the Lord may come into my mind. In your synod also bid mentionto be made of me, <strong>and</strong> pray for me yourself, <strong>and</strong> join your people with you in the prayerthat it may be permitted me to continue my service through the remaining days or hoursof my sojourning here in a manner pleasing to the Lord.2032453 i.e. that <strong>Basil</strong>, as primate, should either consecrate them an orthodox bishop, or, if this was impossibleunder Valens, should take them under his own immediate episcopal protection.2454 i.e. Antioch.2455 He was succeeded by John I. cf. Letter clxi. <strong>and</strong> note.586

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