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| To Bosporius, Bishop of Colonia.
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Ep.
CLIII. To Bosporius, Bishop of Colonia.
(S. Gregory had to carry out his threat. He
resigned the care of Nazianzus, and nothing would induce him to
withdraw his resignation. Bosporius wrote him an urgent letter
with this object, but he replied as follows:)
Twice I have been tripped up by you, and have been
deceived (you know what I mean), and, if it was justly, may the Lord
smell from you an odour of sweet savour;4772
if
unjustly, may the Lord pardon it. For so it is reasonable for me
to speak of you, seeing we are commanded to be patient when injuries
are inflicted on us. But as you are master of your own opinions,
so am I of mine. That troublesome Gregory will no longer be
troublesome to you. I will withdraw myself to God, Who alone is
pure and guileless. I will retire into myself. This I have
determined; for to stumble twice on the same stone is attributed by the
proverb to fools alone.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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