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

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To Amphilochius, Bishop of Iconium.To Amphilochius, Bishop of Iconium. 2582Letter CLXXVI. 2581God grant that when this letter is put into your h<strong>and</strong>s, it may find you in good health,quite at leisure, <strong>and</strong> as you would wish to be. For then it will not be in vain that I send youthis invitation to be present at our city, to add greater dignity to the annual festival whichit is the custom of our Church to hold in honour of the martyrs. 2583 For be sure my mosthonoured <strong>and</strong> dear friend, that our people here, though they have had experience of many,desire no one’s presence so eagerly as they do yours; so affectionate an impression has yourshort intercourse with them left behind. So, then, that the Lord may be glorified, the peopledelighted, the martyrs honoured, <strong>and</strong> that I in my old age may receive the attention due tome from my true son, do not refuse to travel to me with all speed. I will beg you too to anticipatethe day of assembly, that so we may converse at leisure <strong>and</strong> may comfort one anotherby the interchange of spiritual gifts. The day is the fifth of September. 2584 Come then threedays beforeh<strong>and</strong> in order that you may also honour with your presence the Church 2585 ofthe Hospital. May you by the grace of the Lord be kept in good health <strong>and</strong> spirits in theLord, praying for me <strong>and</strong> for the Church of God.2212581 Placed in 374.2582 An invitation to feast of St. Eupsychius, with a request to arrive three days before the actual day of thefestival, which was observed on the 7th of September. (cf. Letter c. <strong>and</strong> note, <strong>and</strong> the invitation to the Ponticbishops in cclii.)2583 i.e. Damas <strong>and</strong> Eupsychius.2584 So the date st<strong>and</strong>s in eight mss. However it arose, 5th is a mistake for 7th, the day of St. Eupsychius inthe Greek Kalendar.2585 Μνήμη. The Ben. Ed. underst<strong>and</strong> by this word the church erected by <strong>Basil</strong> in his hospital (cf. Letterxciv.) at Cæsarea. In illustration of the use of μνήμη in this sense Du Cange cites Act. Conc. Chalced. i. 144, <strong>and</strong>explains it as being equivalent to “memoria,” i.e. “ædes sacra in qua extat sancti alicujus sepulcrum.” cf. Nomocan.Photii v. § 1. For the similar use of “memoria,” in Latin, cf. Aug., De Civ. Dei. xxii. 10: “Nos autem martyribusnostris non templa sicut diis sedmemoriassicut hominibus mortuis fabricamus.”637

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