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

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To Otreius, bishop of Melitene.Letter CLXXXI. 2593To Otreius, bishop of Melitene. 2594222Your reverence is, I know, no less distressed than myself at the removal of the very Godbelovedbishop Eusebius. We both of us need comfort. Let us try to give it to one another.Do you write to me what you hear from Samosata, <strong>and</strong> I will report to you anything that Imay learn from Thrace. 2595It is to me no slight alleviation of our present distress to know the constancy of thepeople. It will be the same to you to have news of our common father. Of course I cannotnow tell you this by letter, but I commend to you one who is fully informed, <strong>and</strong> will reportto you in what condition he left him, <strong>and</strong> how he bears his troubles. Pray, then, for him<strong>and</strong> for me that the Lord will grant him speedy release from his distress.2593 Placed in 374.2594 In Armenia Minor, now Malatia. <strong>Basil</strong> asks him for <strong>and</strong> offers sympathy in the exile of Eusebius. Otreiuswas at Tyana in 367, <strong>and</strong> at Constantinople in 381 (Labbe ii. 99 <strong>and</strong> 955).2595 Where Eusebius was in exile.642

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