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Letter CLXXV.2576
| 2576 Written
probably early in 374. |
To Count Magnenianus.2577
| 2577 One
ms. reads Magninianus. On the
identification of this officer with the recipient of cccxxv., see
that letter. |
Your excellency lately
wrote to me, plainly charging me, besides other matters, to write
concerning the Faith. I admire your zeal in the matter, and I
pray God that your choice of good things may be persistent, and that,
advancing in knowledge and good works, you may be made perfect.
But I have no wish to leave behind me a treatise on the Faith, or to
write various creeds, and so I have declined to send what you
asked.2578
| 2578 But what Basil
declined to do at the prompting of Magnenianus, he shortly
afterwards did for Amphilochius, and wrote the De Spiritu
Sancto. | You seem
to me to be surrounded by the din of your men there, idle fellows,
who say certain things to calumniate me, with the idea that they
will improve their own position by lying disgracefully against
me.2579
| 2579 Maran (V.
Basilxxx.) thinks that the allusion is to Atarbuis of
Neocæsarea and to some of his presbyters. cf.
Letter ccx. | The past
shews what they are, and future experience will shew them in still
plainer colours. I, however, call on all who trust in Christ
not to busy themselves in opposition to the ancient faith, but, as
we believe, so to be baptized, and, as we are baptized, so to
offer the doxology.2580
| 2580 cf.
De Sp. Scto. p. 17. | It is
enough for us to confess those names which we have received from
Holy Scripture, and to shun all innovation about them. Our
salvation does not lie in the invention of modes of address, but
in the sound confession of the Godhead in which we have professed
our faith.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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