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15 cf. 2 Cor. xii. 20 and 1 Peter ii. 15.
16 cf. 1 Peter iii. 16, 17, and James iv. 11.
18 This charge is probably founded on Luke vi. 21 and 25, and James iv. 9. Yet our Lord's promise that they who hunger and weep "shall laugh," admits of fulfilment in the kingdom of God on earth. Cheerfulness is a note of the Church, whose members, "if sorrowful," are yet "alway rejoicing." (2 Cor. vi. 10.)
20 It is less easy to find explicit Scriptural sanction even for such a modified rule of silence as is here given by St. Basil. St. Paul can only be quoted for the "silence" of the woman. But even St. Basil's "silence" with a view to preserving his coenobium form vain conversation, is a long way off the "silence" of St. Bruno's Carthusians.
32 Phil. iv. 5, to\ e'pielike/j. In 1 Tim iii. 3, "patient" is e'pieikh\j.
33 Rom xii. 10 and 1 Pet. ii. 17.
35 Matt. vi. 29, Luke xii. 27.
51 tw= proestw$ti. o 9 proestw\j is the "president" in Justin Matryr's description of the Christian service in Apol Maj. i.
56 cf. Matt. xxiv. 14; Luke xii. 40.
59 cf. Mark x. 23, 24; Luke xviii. 24.
1 Written at Caesarea during his presbyterate.
1 Placed before Basil's epsicopoate.
2 Vide note on Letter xxv. Nothing more is known of the elder of these two Athanasii than is to be gathered from this letter.
3 Ex. xxiii. 1, LXX. and marg.
1 Placed, like the former, before the episcopate.
2 This Athanasius was appointed to the see of Ancyra (Angora) by the influence of Acacius the one-eyed, bp. of Caesarea, the inveterate opponent of Cyril of Jerusalem, and leader of the Nomoeans. He therefore started his episcopate under unfavorable auspices, but acquired a reputation for orthodoxy. cf. Greg. Nyss., Contra Eunom. I. ii. 292. On Basil's high opinion of him, cf. Letter xxix.
2 Caesarius was the youngest brother of Gregory of Nazianzus. After a life of distinguished service under Julian, Valens, and Valentinian, he was led, shortly after the escape narrated in this letter, to retire from the world. A work entitled Pu/steij, or Quÿ\stionej (si/e Dialogi) de Rebuj Di/inuj, attributed to him, is of doubtful genuineness. Vide D>C>B> s.v. The earthquake, from the effects of which Caelsarius was preserved, took place on the tenth of October, 368. cf. Greg. Naz, Orat. x.