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

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To Amiochus.Letter CLVII. 2515To Amiochus. 2516You may well imagine how disappointed I was not to meet you in the summer; not thatour meeting in former years was enough to satisfy me, but even to see loved objects in adream brings those who love some comfort. But you do not even write, so sluggish are you,<strong>and</strong> I think your absence can be referred to no other cause than that you are slow to undertakejourneys for affection’s sake. On this point I will say no more. Pray for me, <strong>and</strong> ask theLord not to desert me, but as He has brought me out of bygone temptations so also to deliverme from those that I await, for the glory of the name of Him in Whom I put my trust.2515 Placed in 373.2516 cf. <strong>Letters</strong> cxlvi. <strong>and</strong> ccxxxix. Maran. (Vit. Bas). is of opinion that as these two letters, clvii. <strong>and</strong> clviii.,written at the same time, are very much in the same terms, they cannot be to the same person, <strong>and</strong> thinks thatthe sluggishness, which <strong>Basil</strong> complains of, fits with Eusebius much better than with Antiochus, who could nottravel without his uncle’s permission.611

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