Letter CXLVI.
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To Antiochus
.
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I
cannot
accuse you of
carelessness and inattention, because, when an opportunity of writing
occurred, you said nothing. For I count the greeting which you
have sent me in your own honoured hand worth many letters. In
return I salute you, and beg you earnestly to give heed to the
salvation of your soul, disciplining all the lusts of the flesh by
reason, and ever keeping the thought of God built up in your soul, as
in a very holy temple. In every deed and every word hold before
your eyes the judgment of Christ, so that every individual action,
being referred to that exact and awful examination may bring you glory
in the day of retribution, when you win praise from all creation.
If that great man
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should be able to
pay me a visit, it would be a pleasure to me to see you here with
him.
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Placed in
373.
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Nephew
of Eusebius, who had written a salutation in his uncle’s
letter.
cf. Letter
clxviii.
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i.e.
his uncle Eusebius.