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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 2
… Interviews between Basil and Valens. Death of Galates. Valens endows Ptochotrophium and quits Cæsarea. Basil visits Eusebius at Samosata. Claim of Anthimus to metropolitan dignity at Tyana. Basil resists Anthimus. Basil Forces Gregory of Nazianzus …
2,265 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 1
… Dianius subscribes the Creed of Ariminum, and Basil in consequence leaves Cæsarea. He visits Gregory at Nazianzus. 361. Death of Constantius and accession of Julian. Basil writes the "Moralia." 362. Basil returns to Cæsarea. Dianius …
757 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 8
… Yet such was his infirmity; and he repelled the accusations of his mind against himself by charging Basil with unkindness in placing him at Sasima. On the other hand, it is possible that Basil, in …
2,265 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 6
… Gregory pleaded that it was better for Basil's own sake that there should be no suspicion of favour to personal friends, and begged to be excused for staying at Nazianzus. [149] Basil complained that …
2,224 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 3
If the Libanian correspondence be accepted as genuine, we may add Celsus, a pupil of Libanius, to the group. [47] But if we except Basil's affection for Gregory of Nazianzus, of none of these …
2,346 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 5
… His friend Gregory gives us no details, but it may be inferred from what he says that he thought Basil ill-used. [107] And allusions of Basil have been supposed to imply his own sense …
2,433 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 4
At the Pontic retreat Basil now began that system of hard ascetic discipline which eventually contributed to the enfeeblement of his health and the shortening of his life. He complains again and again in his …
2,203 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 223
Chapter XVI.--Basil becomes Bishop of Cæsarea after Eusebius; his Boldness towards the Emperor and the Prefect. Some time after, the emperor again visited Cappadocia, and found that Basil was administering the churches there after …
717 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 7
Nevertheless, so far as the civil power was concerned, Basil, after the famous visit of Valens, was left at peace. [184] He had triumphed. Was it a triumph for the nobler principles of the Gospel …
2,268 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 252
… Libanius to Basil. Now I recognise men's description of me! Basil has praised me, and I am hailed victor over all! Now that I have received your vote, I am entitled to walk with …
708 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 74
… Basil had two brothers, Peter and Gregory; the former of whom adopted Basil's monastic mode of life; while the latter emulated his eloquence in teaching, and completed after his death Basil's treatise on …
1,769 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 10
In fact the appeal of Basil seems to have failed to elicit the response he desired, not so much from the independent tone of his letters, which was only in accordance with the recognised facts …
2,231 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 82
… Demosthenes of Pontus afterwards became a partisan of the Semi-arians and accused Basil's brother, Gregory of Nyssa, of dishonesty. Basil. Epist. 264, 385, 405. [727] stoicheion is a simple sound of the voice …
1,186 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 9
… Cappadocia was one of the most Christian districts of the empire long before Basil was appointed to the exarchate of Cæsarea, and Basil is not likely to have been the first occupant of the see …
2,393 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 62
… Jerome (De Viris Illust.) among Basil's works names only the Hexæmeron, the De Sp. Scto, and the treatise Contra Eunomium. That Basil's friends should think highly of it is only what might be …
1,324 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 118
… Basil's episcopate. [2158] On this title Benedictine editors remark that no careful reader can fail to note that the letter is written not by Basil but about Basil. "Hodie," they write, "inter eruditos fere …
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… In Basil's case, even the brotherhood was barely recognised, if recognised at all, by the western prelate. [702] cf. Dr. Travers Smith, St. Basil, p. 125. [703] Etude Hist. p. 133. [704] Xenon gar …
2,200 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 60
… 86) as supposing that Basil's charge against Dionysius of sowing the seeds of the Anomoean heresy was due to imperfect acquaintance with his writings. In Letter clxxxviii. Basil calls him "the Great," which implies …
1,118 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 27
… those of Basil shew us that the loss is one to be deplored. The correspondence bore partly on the continuance of the unhappy schism at Antioch. Basil asks for the mediation of Athanasius; if he …
1,346 wordsChrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 14
… Chrysostom's friend Basil has been confused by some with the great Basil, Bishop of Cæsarea in Cappadocia, who was fifteen years older than Chrysostom, by others with Basil Bishop of Seleucia, who was many …
2,040 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 185
… Now Basil both received and observed it, and received no injury from the tree of knowledge, and escaped the flaming sword, and, as I am well assured, has attained to Paradise. Enos first ventured to …
2,264 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 251
… Libanius to Basil. Will you not give over, Basil, packing this sacred haunt of the Muses with Cappadocians, and these redolent of the frost [3285] and snow and all Cappadocia's good things? They have …
730 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 19
… 48.) Basil (Can. xviii.) punishes a breach of the vow of virginity as he does adultery, but it was not till the Benedictine rule was established in Europe that it was generally regarded as absolutely …
2,508 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 88
… Basil of Cæsarea.--This long sojourn ended, he resumed his purpose of visiting Basil, and left Egypt for Cæsarea (which our narrator evidently supposes to be a maritime city--probably confusing it with the Cæsarea …
2,332 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 111
… Editors as being written, if genuine, before Basil's episcopate. Maran (Vita S. Bas. Cap. ii.) is puzzled at Basil's assertion in xli. that he learned the Bible with Julian, and points out that …
1,158 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 4
Henceforward the fortunes of Gregory are more closely linked with those of his great brother Basil. About a.d. 365 Basil was summoned from his retirement to act as coadjutor to Eusebius, the Metropolitan of …
2,204 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 199
… To Basil. (At the request of Anthimus it would appear that S. Gregory wrote to S. Basil a letter, not now extant, proposing a conference between the rival Metropolitans. Basil took umbrage at the well …
2,220 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 222
… Chapter XV.--Disputes between Eusebius, Bishop of Cæsarea, and Basil the Great. Hence the Arians took courage and came to Cæsarea, and were repulsed. When Valens quitted Nicomedia, he went on to Antioch; [1455] and …
810 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 305
… Innocentius (4). [4801] Namesake of a predecessor of Basil, otherwise unknown. [4802] The letter here referred to is lost. The monks in question had raised a cry against Basil on account of the reserve with …
870 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 34
… with the copy used by Basil agrees with A.B. [765] Rom. vi. 4. It is pointed out by the Rev. C.F.H. Johnston in his edition of the De Spiritu that among quotations …
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