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

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To Sophronius the Master.Letter CXCII. 2678To Sophronius the Master.With your extraordinary zeal in good deeds you have written to me to say that youyourself owe me double thanks; first, for getting a letter from me, <strong>and</strong> secondly, for doingme a service. What thanks, then, must not I owe you, both for reading your most delightfulwords, <strong>and</strong> for finding what I hoped for so quickly accomplished! The message was exceedinglygratifying on its own account, but it gave me much greater gratification from the factthat you were the friend to whom I owed the boon. God grant that ere long I may see you,<strong>and</strong> return you thanks in words, <strong>and</strong> enjoy the great pleasure of your society.as already in communion with him (Letter cciv.). Perhaps all that the meeting was desired to bring about waseffected by correspondence. This is the explanation of the Ben. Ed.2678 Placed in 374.670

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