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

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To Victor, the Comm<strong>and</strong>er.Letter CLII. 2503To Victor, the Comm<strong>and</strong>er. 2504If I were to fail to write to any one else I might possibly with justice incur the charge ofcarelessness or forgetfulness. But it is not possible to forget you, when your name is in allmen’s mouths. But I cannot be careless about one who is perhaps more distinguished thanany one else in the empire. The cause of my silence is evident. I am afraid of troubling sogreat a man. If, however, to all your other virtues you add that of not only receiving whatI send, but of actually asking after what is missing, lo! here I am writing to you with joyousheart, <strong>and</strong> I shall go on writing for the future, with prayers to God that you may be requitedfor the honour you pay me. For the Church, you have anticipated my supplications, bydoing everything which I should have asked. And you act to please not man but God, Whohas honoured you; Who has given you some good things in this life, <strong>and</strong> will give you othersin the life to come, because you have walked with truth in His way, <strong>and</strong>, from the beginningto the end, have kept your heart fixed in the right faith.2503 Placed in 373.2504 cf. Greg. Naz., <strong>Letters</strong> cxxxiii. <strong>and</strong> cxxxiv. <strong>and</strong> Theodoret, Ecc. Hist. iv. 30. <strong>and</strong> Amm. Marc. xxxi. 7.605

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