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

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To Eusebius, bishop of Samosata.To Eusebius, bishop of Samosata.Letter CCXLI. 3029It is not to increase your distress that I am so lavish of painful topics in my letters toyour excellency. My object is to get some comfort for myself in the lamentations which area kind of natural means of dispersing deep-seated pain whenever they are produced, <strong>and</strong>further to rouse you, my great-hearted friend, to more earnest prayer on behalf of theChurches. We know that Moses prayed continually for the people; yet, when his battle withAmalek had begun, he did not let down his h<strong>and</strong>s from morning to evening, <strong>and</strong> the upliftingof the h<strong>and</strong>s of the saint only ended with the end of the fight.3029 Placed in 376.780

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