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A dialogue with his friend Basil, written after John slipped away from being made a bishop. In six short books he weighs how great and how hard the priesthood is.
Clergy have read it for sixteen centuries, and it helps everyone else understand them.
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About this edition
Translated by W. R. W. Stephens, in the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, first series, vol. 9 (1889).
This translation is in the public domain. We took the text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library and left out the editors’ footnotes.
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