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The Church Fathers · 357–378
The Letters
Basil the Great · c. 330–379
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What it is
Over three hundred letters of consolation, canon law, church politics, famine relief, and friendship, including the canonical letters that still govern Orthodox penitential practice.
Why it lasted
The best surviving picture of a fourth-century bishop's actual working life.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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