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| To Barses, bishop of Edessa, in exile.
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CCLXIV.3195
To Barses, bishop of Edessa, in
exile.3196
| 3196 See Soz.,
H.E. vi. 34, who says that Barses, with Eulogius, was
not consecrated to any definite see. cf. also
Theodoret H.E. iv. 16, where it is stated that his bed
was preserved at Aradus. |
To Barses the bishop,
truly God-beloved and worthy of all reverence and honour, Basil sends
greeting in the Lord. As my dear brother Domninus3197
| 3197 Domninus
was a not uncommon name, and there are several mentioned about the
same time, e.g. Nilus, Epp. iii. 43 and
144. | is setting out to you, I gladly seize the
opportunity of writing, and I greet you by him, praying the holy God
that we may be so long preserved in this life as to be permitted to see
you, and to enjoy the good gifts which you possess. Only pray, I
beseech you, that the Lord may not deliver us for aye to the enemies of
the Cross of Christ, but that He will keep His Churches, until the time
of that peace which the just Judge Himself knows when He will
bestow. For He will bestow it. He will not always abandon
us. As He limited seventy years3198
for the period of captivity for the Israelites in punishment for their
sins, so peradventure the Mighty One, after giving us up for some
appointed time, will recall us once again, and will restore us to the
peace of the beginning—unless indeed the apostasy is now nigh at
hand, and the events that have lately happened are the beginnings of
the approach of Antichrist. If this be so, pray that the good
Lord will either take away our afflictions, or preserve us through our
afflictions unvanquished. Through you I greet all those who have
been thought worthy to be associated with you. All who are with
me salute your reverence. May you, by the grace of the Holy One,
be preserved to the Church of God in good health, trusting in the Lord,
and praying for me.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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