Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 55:12

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 8, page 304, footnote 1 (Image)

Basil: Letters and Select Works

The Letters. (HTML)

To Eulogius, Alexander, and Harpocration, bishops of Egypt, in exile. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3200 (In-Text, Margin)

... keep silence concerning the mischief which they are causing. I have in truth found great distress among all who cleave to the peace of the Lord at the divers innovations of Apollinarius of Laodicea. He has all the more distressed me from the fact that he seemed at the beginning on our side. A sufferer can in a certain sense endure what comes to him from an open enemy, even though it be exceedingly painful, as it is written, “For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it.”[Psalms 55:12] But it is intolerable, and beyond the power of comfort, to be wronged by a close and sympathetic friend. Now that very man whom I have expected to have at my right hand in defence of the truth, I have found in many ways hindering those who are being ...