The Letters.
Without address. Commendatory.
Letter CCXLIX.
Without address. Commendatory.
I congratulate this my brother, in being delivered from our troubles here and in approaching your reverence. In choosing a good life with them that fear the Lord he has chosen a good provision for the life to come. I commend him to your excellency and by him I beseech you to pray for my wretched life, to the end that I may be delivered from these trials and begin to serve the Lord according to the Gospel.
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NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works. Historical English edition; series volume first published 1895.
Blomfield Jackson, translator
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