Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Vol. 07 — Section 1420
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series Vol. 7
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28. There arose a disagreement between him and his predecessor [4442] in the rule over this Church: its source and character it is best to pass over in silence, yet it arose. He was a man in other respects far from ignoble, and admirable for his piety, as was proved by the persecution of that time, and the opposition to him, yet his feeling against Basil was one to which men are liable. For Momus seizes not only upon the common herd, but on the best of men, so that it belongs to God alone to be utterly uninfluenced by and proof against such feelings. All the more eminent and wise porti…
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