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

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To Pelagius, bishop of the Syrian Laodicea.To Pelagius, 3120 bishop of the Syrian Laodicea.Letter CCLIV. 3119May the Lord grant me once again in person to behold your true piety <strong>and</strong> to supply inactual intercourse all that is wanting in my letter. I am behindh<strong>and</strong> in beginning to write<strong>and</strong> must needs make many excuses. But we have with us the well beloved <strong>and</strong> reverendbrother Sanctissimus, the presbyter. He will tell you everything, both our news <strong>and</strong> thenews of the West. You will be cheered by what you hear; but when he tells you of the troublesin which we are involved he will perhaps add some distress <strong>and</strong> anxiety to that which alreadybesets your kindly soul. Yet it is not to no purpose that affliction should be felt by you, ableas you are to move the Lord. Your anxiety will turn to our gain, <strong>and</strong> I know that we shallreceive succour from God as long as we have the aid of your prayers. Pray, too, with me forrelease from my anxieties, <strong>and</strong> ask for some increase in my bodily strength; then the Lordwill prosper me on my way to the fulfilment of my desires <strong>and</strong> to a sight of your excellency.3119 Placed in 376.3120 cf. Letter xcii. p. 177. On Pelagius bishop of the Syrian Laodicea, see Theod., H.E. iv. 13 <strong>and</strong> v. 8.Philostorg., H.E. v. 1. Sozomen, H.E. vi. 12, <strong>and</strong> vii. 9.805

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