Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Vol. 12 — Section 1708
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Work: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Volume 12
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series Vol. 12
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For this also we greatly rejoice, that the gifts which you sent us were not unlike your character. For indeed we received oil of the holy cross [1761] , and wood of aloes; one to bless by the touch, the other to give a sweet smell when kindled. For it was becoming that a good man should send us things that might appease the wrath of God against us. Many other things also you have sent for our store-houses, since, as we subsist both in soul and in flesh, it was needful that we should be sustained in both. And yet in transmitting these things your most sweet soul declares that it blushe…
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