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

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<strong>Basil</strong> to Gregory.his troop of b<strong>and</strong>its. I am sure your reverence will think all this intolerable. The ridiculeof it attaches to us all alike. First of all, order him to come back with the virgins. He mightfind some mercy, if he were to come back with a letter from you. If you do not adopt thiscourse, at least send the virgins back to their mother the Church. If this cannot be done, atall events do not allow any violence to be done to those that are willing to return, but getthem to return to me. Otherwise I call God <strong>and</strong> man to witness that all this is ill done, <strong>and</strong>a breach of the law of the Church. The best course would be for Glycerius to come backwith a letter, 2562 <strong>and</strong> in a becoming <strong>and</strong> proper frame of mind; if not, let him be deprivedof his ministry. 25632562 ἐπιστολῆς is read in the version of this letter appearing in the works of Greg. Naz., <strong>and</strong> Combefis is nodoubt right in thinking that it makes better sense than ἐπιστήμης, the reading of the chief mss. here.2563 cf. Prolegomena, <strong>and</strong> Ramsay’s Church <strong>and</strong> Roman Empire, Cap. xviii.630

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