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

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To Palladius.Letter CCXCII.To Palladius.The one-half of my desire has God fulfilled in the interview He granted me with ourfair sister, your wife. The other half He is able to accomplish; <strong>and</strong> so with the sight of yourexcellency I shall render my full thanks to God.And I am the more desirous of seeing you, now that I hear you have been adorned withthat great ornament, the clothing of immortality, which clokes our mortality, <strong>and</strong> puts outof sight the death of the flesh; by virtue of which the corruptible is swallowed up in incorruption.Thus God of His goodness has now alienated you from sin, united you to Himself, hasopened the doors of Heaven, <strong>and</strong> pointed out the paths that lead to heavenly bliss. I entreatyou therefore by that wisdom wherein you excel all other men, that you receive the divinefavour circumspectly, proving a faithful guardian of this treasure, as the repository of thisroyal gift, keeping watch over it with all carefulness. Preserve this seal of righteousnessunsullied, that so you may st<strong>and</strong> before God, shining in the brightness of the Saints. Let nospot or wrinkle defile the pure robe of immortality; but keep holiness in all your members,as having put on Christ. “For,” it is said, “as many of you as have been baptized into Christ,have put on Christ.” 3258 Wherefore let all your members be holy as becomes their investmentin a raiment of holiness <strong>and</strong> light.3258 Gal. iii. 27.864

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