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

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To Sophronius the magister officiorum.3. You must not refuse to believe what I say, unless you regard me as quite a desperatecharacter, who thinks nothing of the great sin of lying. Put away all suspicion of me in relationto the business, <strong>and</strong> for the future reckon my affection for you as beyond the reach ofall calumny. Imitate Alex<strong>and</strong>er, who received a letter, saying that his physician was plottinghis death, at the very moment when he was just about to drink his medicine, <strong>and</strong> was so farfrom believing the sl<strong>and</strong>erer that he at one <strong>and</strong> the same time read the letter <strong>and</strong> drank thedraught. 3228 I refuse to admit that I am in any way inferior to the men who have beenfamous for their friendship, for I have never been detected in any breach of mine; <strong>and</strong>, besidesthis, I have received from my God the comm<strong>and</strong>ment of love, <strong>and</strong> owe you love not onlyas part of mankind in general, but because I recognise you individually as a benefactor bothof my country <strong>and</strong> of myself.3103228 Plut., Alex.841

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