Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 102:6

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 8, page 134, footnote 2 (Image)

Basil: Letters and Select Works

The Letters. (HTML)

To the Church of Ancyra.  Consolatory. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2003 (In-Text, Margin)

... edification of the brotherhood. Gone are the counsels of a mind which truly moved in God. Ah! how often, for I must accuse myself, was it my lot to feel indignation against him, because, wholly desiring to depart and be with Christ, he did not prefer for our sakes to remain in the flesh! To whom for the future shall I commit the cares of the Churches? Whom shall I take to share my troubles? Whom to participate in my gladness? O loneliness terrible and sad! How am I not like to a pelican of the wilderness?[Psalms 102:6] Yet of a truth the members of the Church, united by his leadership as by one soul, and fitted together into close union of feeling and fellowship, are both preserved and shall ever be preserved by the bond of peace for spiritual communion. God ...