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Genealogical Tables · TOU AGIOU BAChILEIOU PERI TOU PNEUMATOCh BIBLION. THE BOOK OF SAINT BASIL ON THE SPIRIT. DE SPIRITU SANCTO

Letter XII

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To Olympius.1889

Before you did write me a few words: now not even a few. Your brevity will soon become silence. Return to your old ways, and do not let me have to scold you for your laconic behaviour. But I shall be glad even of a little letter in token of your great love. Only write to me.

Notes

  1. 1888

    Of the same date as the preceding.

  2. 1889

    Olympius was an influential friend of Basil's, and sympathized with him in his later troubles, and under the attacks of Eustathius. cf. Letters ccxi., lxiii., lxiv.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Volume 8, ed. Philip Schaff and Henry Wace (1890–1900). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.