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NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
Basil the Great · early-church-fathers
Basil to Libanius.
Letter CCCLVI.
I am delighted at receiving what you write, but when you ask me to reply, I am in a difficulty. What could I say in answer to so Attic a tongue, except that I confess, and confess with joy, that I am a pupil of fishermen?
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