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

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Without Address.Letter CCLXXXV. 3244Without Address.The hearer of this letter is one on whom rests the care of our Church <strong>and</strong> the managementof its property—our beloved son.Deign to grant him freedom of speech on those points that are referred to your holiness,<strong>and</strong> attention to the expression of his own views; so shall our Church at length recoverherself, <strong>and</strong> henceforth be released from this many-headed Hydra.Our property is our poverty; so much so that we are ever in search of one to relieve usof it; for the expenses of the Church property amount to more than any profit that she derivesfrom it.3244 Placed in the episcopate.854

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