Basil the Great
To Jovinus, Bishop of Perrha.
Letters (Selected) — translated by Blomfield Jackson
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Letter CXVIII.
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To Jovinus, Bishop of Perrha.
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You owe me a good turn. For I lent you a kindness, which I ought to get back with interest;—a kind of interest, this, which our Lord does not refuse. Pay me, then, my friend, by paying me a visit. So much for the capital; what of the increment? It is the fact of the visit being paid by you, who are a man as much superior to me, as fathers are better than children.
Translated by Blomfield Jackson. Edition opa.patristics.basil-the-great.letters-selected.en.