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

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To Valerianus.Letter CCLXXVIII. 3235To Valerianus.I desired, when in Orphanene, 3236 to see your excellency; I had also hoped that whileyou were living at Corsagæna, there would have been nothing to hinder your coming to meat a synod which I had expected to hold at Attagæna; since, however, I failed to hold it, mydesire was to see you in the hill-country; for here again Evesus, 3237 being in that neighbourhood,held out hopes of our meeting. But since I have been disappointed on both occasions,I determined to write <strong>and</strong> beg that you would deign to visit me; for I think it is but right<strong>and</strong> proper that the young man should come to the old. Furthermore, at our meeting, Iwould make you a tender of my advice, touching your negotiations with certain at Cæsarea:a right conclusion of the matter calls for my intervention. If agreeable then, do not bebackward in coming to me.3235 Placed in the episcopate.3236 A district in Armenia Minor. Ramsay, Hist. Geog. A.M. 314.3237 cf. Ep. ccli. p. 291. Euassai or Evesus is about fifty miles north of Cæsarea.847

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