Church Father Writings · Basil the Great

Letter 357

Basil the Great · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series · Vol. 8

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ST. BASIL OF CAESAREA

Libanius to Basil.

What has made Basil object to the letter, the proof of philosophy? I have learned to make fun from you, but nevertheless your fun is venerable and, so to say, hoary with age. But, by our very friendship, by our common pastimes, do away, I charge you, with the distress caused by your letter…in nothing differing.

Edition Record

Translator
Translated by Blomfield Jackson.
Series
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series
Volume
Vol. 8.
Editor
Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace.
Publisher
Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co.,
Year
1895.