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

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To Himerius, the master.Letter CCLXXIV. 3230To Himerius, the master.That my friendship <strong>and</strong> affection for the very reverend brother Hera began when I wasquite a boy, <strong>and</strong> has, by God’s grace, continued up to my old age, no one knows better thanyourself. For the Lord granted me the affection of your excellency at about the same timethat He allowed me to become acquainted with Hera. He now needs your patronage, <strong>and</strong>I therefore beseech <strong>and</strong> supplicate you to do a favour for the sake of our old affection, <strong>and</strong>to heed the necessity under which we now lie. I beg you to make his cause your own, thathe may need no other protection, but may return to me, successful in all that he is prayingfor. Then to the many kindnesses which I have received at your h<strong>and</strong>s I shall be able to addyet this one more. I could not claim any favour more important to myself, or one morenearly touching my own interests.3230 Of the same time as the preceding.843

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