Epistle 140

Letter from Basil to the rhetorician Libanius, discussing Basil's engagement with Moses and the prophets rather than with classical rhetoric.

Preliminaries

• TO THE MOST REVEREND AND MOST ILLUSTRIOUS LORD HENRY FRANCIS VAN DER BURCH, ARCHBISHOP AND DUKE OF CAMBRAI, PRINCE OF THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE, COUNT OF CAMBRAI. — Basil quoted on conversing with Moses and Elijah and receiving teaching in a foreign tongue

  "We indeed, he says, O distinguished man, converse with Moses and Elijah and such blessed men, who impart their teaching to us in a foreign tongue"