Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Vol. 13 — Section 471
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series Vol. 13
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It is no doubt possible that Ephraim may have visited Egypt, [289] as the Life affirms, before proceeding to Cæsarea: as an anchorite he would naturally be drawn to the land where the anchorite life had its origin and its greatest development. Yet it is hardly probable that, eager as he was to see Basil at Cæsarea, he would, when setting out on his travels, have directed his course to Egypt first,--a country so distant, and lying in a direction so different, from Cappadocia. This improbability would naturally fail to strike our biographer, who appears to have supposed Basil's Cæsarea (…
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