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

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Libanius to <strong>Basil</strong>.Letter CCCXLI.Libanius to <strong>Basil</strong>.You have not yet ceased to be offended with me, <strong>and</strong> so I tremble as I write. If you havecared, why, my dear sir, do you not write? If you are still offended, a thing alien from anyreasonable soul <strong>and</strong> from your own, why, while you are preaching to others, that they mustnot keep their anger till sundown, 3276 have you kept yours during many suns? Peradventureyou have meant to punish me by depriving me of the sound of your sweet voice? Nay; excellentsir, be gentle, <strong>and</strong> let me enjoy your golden tongue.3233276 cf. Eph. iv. 27, <strong>and</strong> the passage quoted by Alford from Plut., De Am. Frat. 488 B., to the effect that thePythagoreans, whenever anger had caused unkindly words, shook h<strong>and</strong>s before sundown, <strong>and</strong> were reconciled.908

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