2.  In addition to all this he has had the impudence to write against me, or rather to compose long discourses full of all kinds of abuse and calumny.  To these, up to this time, I have answered nothing, taught as we are by the Apostle, not to avenge ourselves, but to give place unto wrath. Rom. xii. 19.  Moreover, at the thought of the depth of the hypocrisy with which he has all along approached me, I have, in a way, become speechless with amazement.  But, if all this had never happened, who would not feel horror and detestation of the fellow at this fresh piece of audacity?  Now, as I hear, if the report is really true and not a slanderous invention, he has ventured to re-ordain certain men; a proceeding on which so far no heretic has ventured.  How then can I quietly endure such treatment?  How can I look upon the errors of the man as curable?  Beware, then, of being led away by lies; do not be moved by the suspicions of men who are prone to look at everything in a bad light, as though I were making little of such things.  For, be sure, my very dear and honourable friend, that I have never at any time been so grieved as I am now, on hearing of this confusion of the laws of the Church.  Pray only that the Lord grant me to take no step in anger, but to maintain charity, which behaveth itself not unseemly and is not puffed up. 1 Cor. xiii. 5 and 4.  Only look how men without charity have been lifted up beyond all human bounds and conduct themselves in an unseemly manner, daring deeds which have no precedent in all the past. There is no other mention in Basil’s letters of Eustathius being guilty of re-ordination.  The Ben. note, however, states that Basil is not accurate in saying that there was no heretical precedent for such proceedings.  The Arians are charged with it in the Book of Prayers of Faustus and Marcellinus, Bib. Patr.v. 655.  cf. also the letter of Constantius to the Ethiopians against Frumentius.  Athan., Apol. ad Const. § 31.