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

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<strong>Letters</strong> CCCLXI-CCCLXV<strong>Letters</strong> CCCLXI. <strong>and</strong> CCCLXIII., to Apollinarius, <strong>and</strong> <strong>Letters</strong> CCCLXII. <strong>and</strong> CCCLXIV.,from Apollinarius to <strong>Basil</strong>, are condemned as indubitably spurious, not only on internalevidence, but also on the ground of <strong>Basil</strong>’s asseveration that he had never written but onceto Apollinarius, <strong>and</strong> that “as layman to layman.” 3293 Letter CCCLXV., “to the great emperorTheodosius,” on an inundation in Cappadocia, is also condemned by the Ben. Ed. as spurious,<strong>and</strong> contains nothing of ecclesiastical or theological interest. Tillemont however (vol. v., p.739) thought its style not unworthy of a young man <strong>and</strong> a rhetorician, <strong>and</strong> conjectures theTheodosius to whom it is addressed to be not the great emperor, but some magistrate ofCappadocia.3293 Ep. ccxxiv. § 2.928

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