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| To Meletius, bishop of Antioch.
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CCXVI.2823
To Meletius, bishop of Antioch.
Many other2824
| 2824 On this
word other the Ben. note grounds the argument that Meletius
had proposed a journey which Basil had not undertaken, and hence
that the unnamed bishop of Letter ccxiii. is Meletius; and
further that the fact of the bishop not being named in ccxiii., and
the obscurity of this and of other letters, may indicate the
writer’s hesitation to put particulars in his letters which
might be more discreetly left to be conveyed by word of
mouth. | journeys have taken me from home. I
have been as far as Pisidia to settle the matters concerning the
brethren in Isauria in concert with the Pisidian bishops. Thence
I journeyed into Pontus, for Eustathius had caused no small disturbance
at Dazimon, and had caused there a considerable secession from our
church. I even went as far as the home of my brother
Peter,2825
| 2825 i.e.
the settlement on the Iris, where Peter had succeeded Basil as
Head. | and, as this
is not far from Neocæsarea, there was occasion of
considerable trouble to the Neocæsareans, and of much
rudeness to myself. Some men fled when no one was in
pursuit. And I was supposed to be intruding uninvited,
simply to get compliments from the folk there. As soon as I
got home, after contracting a severe illness from the bad weather
and my anxieties, I straightway received a letter from the East to
tell me that Paulinus had had certain letters from the West
addressed to him, in acknowledgement of a sort of higher claim;
and that the Antiochene rebels were vastly elated by them, and
were next preparing a form of creed, and offering to make its
terms a condition of union with our Church. Besides all this
it was reported to me that they had seduced to their faction that
most excellent man Terentius. I wrote to him at once as
forcibly as I could, to induce him to pause; and I tried to point
out their disingenuousness.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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