The Letters.
To Amiochus.
Letter CLVII.
To Amiochus.
You may well imagine how disappointed I was not to meet you in the summer; not that our meeting in former years was enough to satisfy me, but even to see loved objects in a dream brings those who love some comfort. But you do not even write, so sluggish are you, and I think your absence can be referred to no other cause than that you are slow to undertake journeys for affection’s sake. On this point I will say no more. Pray for me, and ask the Lord not to desert me, but as He has brought me out of bygone temptations so also to deliver me from those that I await, for the glory of the name of Him in Whom I put my trust.
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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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