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

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Libanius to <strong>Basil</strong>.Letter CCCXLVII.Libanius to <strong>Basil</strong>.Every bishop is a thing out of which it is very hard to get anything. 3279 The further youhave advanced beyond other people in learning, the more you make me afraid that you willrefuse what I ask. I want some rafters. 3280 Any other sophist would have called them stakes,or poles, not because he wanted stakes or poles, but rather for shewing off his wordlets thanout of any real need. If you do not supply them, I shall have to winter in the open air.3279 πρᾶγμα δυσγρίπιστον. γριπίζω=I catch fish, from γρῖφος, a creel.3280 στρωτήρ.914

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