Eusebius
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Having come to know Parthenius better than before, I love him more than before.
Your letter was full of the wisdom I expected, and I was glad to receive it -- glad both for what you said about our...
I will not pretend that things are as they were.
You wrote what a father naturally would, but your letter has not made me any better.
We take refuge at the same Athena on the same kind of business.
I have written to you before and I greet you again now.
I hear you praise me and never stop doing so, and it seems to me you are doing what is both just and in your own...
If I desired only a small thing from your letters, I would have tried once, and failing, stopped immediately.
I myself fell ill during the summer; Albanius during the autumn.
If I were to write at length all the causes which, up to the present time, have kept me at home, eager as I have been to set out to see your reverence, I should tell an interminable story. I say nothing of illnesses coming one upon another, hard winter weather, and press of work, for all this has been already made known to you. Now, for my sins,...
(In the year 374 Eusebius and other orthodox Bishops of the East were banished by Valens and their thrones filled with Arian intruders. Eusebius was ordered to retire to Thrace, and his journey lay through Cappadocia, where he saw Basil, but Gregory to his great grief was too unwell to leave his house and go to meet him. Instead he sent the foll...
(Eusebius having replied to the former letter Gregory wrote again, having an opportunity of communicating with his friend through one Eupraxius, a disciple of Eusebius, who passed through Cappadocia on his way to visit his master. This letter is sometimes attributed to Basil.) Our reverend brother Eupraxius has always been dear to me and a true ...
1. God, to whom the secrets of the heart of man are open, knows that it is because of my love for Christian peace that I am so deeply moved by the profane deeds of those who basely and impiously persevere in dissenting from it. He knows also that this feeling of mine is one tending towards peace, and that my desire is, not that any one should ag...
(Another letter to Eusebius on the same subject.) To Eusebius, My Excellent Lord and Brother, Worthy of Affection and Esteem, Augustine Sends Greeting. 1. I did not impose upon you, by importunate exhortation or entreaty in spite of your reluctance, the duty, as you call it, of arbitrating between bishops.
Against Some Envious Assailants of Martin.
Augustine to Eusebius, my excellent lord and brother, greetings.
Augustine to Eusebius, my excellent lord and brother, greetings.
The arrival of your letter was like a refreshing breeze in the heat of summer.
King Theodoric to Eusebius, Vir Illustris [Most Illustrious].
Let your Charity believe me that I have been greatly saddened for your sadness, as though I had myself suffered wrong in you. But, when I afterwards learned that, even after the most reverend Maximianus, our brother and fellow bishop, had restored you to his favour and communion, your Love would not accept communion from him, I then knew that wh...
Gregory to Eusebius of Thessalonica, Urbicus of Dyrrachium, Andrew of Nicopolis, John of Corinth, John of Prima Justiniana, John of Crete, John of Larissa and Scodra, and many other bishops. We are constrained by the care of government which we have undertaken to extend vigilantly the solicitude of our office, and to instruct the minds of our br...