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

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To the clergy of Samosata.I too, because of its having been already allowed me to be near you, cannot disregard yourposition. So on the arrival of the very devout brother Theodorus the sub-deacon, <strong>and</strong> hisreport that your Church is in distress <strong>and</strong> disturbance, being deeply grieved <strong>and</strong> muchpained at heart, I could not endure to keep silence. I implore you to fling away all controversywith one another, <strong>and</strong> to make peace, that you may avoid giving pleasure to you opponents<strong>and</strong> destroying the boast of the Church, which is now noised abroad throughout the world,that you all, as you are ruled by one soul <strong>and</strong> heart, so live in one body. Through your reverencesI salute all the people of God, both those in rank <strong>and</strong> office <strong>and</strong> the rest of the clergy.I exhort you to keep your old character. I can ask for nothing more than this because bythe exhibition of your good works you have anticipated <strong>and</strong> made impossible any improvementon them.732

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