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Chrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 178

INDEXES OF SUBJECTS.

… St., his friendship with Basil, [57]33, [58]34; his purpose to enter monastic retreat, [59]34; remonstrances of his mother, [60]34; entraps Basil into ordination, but avoids it himself, [61]35, justifies his …

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Socrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 185

Chapter XVI.--Concerning St. Ephraim.

… The opinion of Basil, who is universally confessed to have been the most eloquent man of his age, is a stronger testimony, I think, to the merit of Ephraim, than anything that could be indited …

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Chrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 36

INTRODUCTION TO THE LETTERS TO THEODORE.

… These two letters, which are the earliest of Chrysostom's extant works, are addressed to a friend who had been a member of the little ascetic brotherhood which Chrysostom and Basil formed, soon after they …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 143

Preface.

… To this it must be added that on this very subject men who were noble in life and eminent for speech and knowledge have already put forth several little books, I mean Basil and Jerome …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 182

[2620] tous en bathmo. cf. note on p. 218.

… 218. [2621] As being one of Basil's predecessors in the see of Cæsarea. [2622] "Hoc Encratitarum facinore non corrupta essentialis baptismi forma. Sed novæ quædam adjectæ cærimoniæ." Ben. Ed. [2623] i.e.those who …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 54

Chapter XXV.

… For Basil's views of Sabellianism vide Epp. CCX., CCXIV., CCXXXV. In his Hær. Fab. Conf. ii. 9 Theodoret writes: "Sabellius said that Father, Son, and Holy Ghost were one Hypostasis; one Person under three …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 247

[3575] §26, n. 7.

… with Himself. Euseb. Eccles. Theol. ii. 15. The Jews said that Almighty God spoke to the Angels. Basil. Hexaem. fin. Others that the plural was used as authorities on earth use it in way of …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 97

Letter IX. [1872]

… The older view coincided with that of Basil; so Theophylact, Chrysostom, and with them Olshausen and Godet. To the objection that the words were said to the Pharisees, and that the kingdom was not in …

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Socrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 279

GENERAL INDEX TO SOZOMEN'S ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

… 370. Barses, Syrian monk and honorary bishop, [2741]371. Basil the Great, limited use by Sozomen, [2742]223; praise of Ephraem Syrus, [2743]295. Basil, bishop of Ancyra, repudiated by Western bishops, [2744]290, [2745 …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 194

Letter CCVII. [2754]

… Atarbius of Neocæsarea. [2756] Basil is described as the earliest authority for making Sabellius an African by birth. (D.C.B. iv. 569) There is no contemporary authority for the statement. [2757] i.e. of …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 280

Canon XCIII.

… From the Letter of Basil the Great to the Nicopolitans. There is also in Tilius and Bishop Beveridge here [599] inserted an epistle of St. Basil the Great to the Nicopolitans, comforting them under the …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 80

Chapter XI.--In what manner Valens fell into heresy.

… 120) as well as the see of this Eusebius, the valued friend of Basil and of Gregory of Nazianzus. We shall find him mentioned again v. 4. [714] Zeugma was on the right bank of …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 49

Chapter XIX.

… The Vulgate reads, "Spiritus oris nostri Christus Dominus," from the Greek of the LXX. quoted by St. Basil, "Pneuma prosopou hemon christos kurios." [1117] 1 John i. 20. [1118] Ps. cxliii. 10. [1119] Ps. li …

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Gregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 74

Book VI.

… The sixth book shows that He Who came for man's salvation was not a mere man, as Eunomius, falsely slandering him, affirmed that the great Basil had said, but the Only-begotten Son of …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 166

Letter CXLIX. [2488]

… Heraclidas, it appears, had also renounced the bar, and devoted himself to religious life; but did not join Amphilochius on the ground that he was living in Basil's hospital at Cæsarea. cf. the letters …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 23

Canon XVII.

… xiv); Basil the Great (Hom. in Ps. xiv). Gregory of Nazianzum (Orat. xiv. in Patrem tacentem). Gregory of Nyssa (Orat. cont. Usurarios); Cyril of Jerusalem (Catech. iv. c. 37), Epiphanius (adv. Hæres. Epilog. c. 24 …

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Leo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 50

Letter XCIX.

… Leo, the Bishop, to Marcian Augustus. (To Marcian Augustus, about the presumption of Anatolius, by the hand of Lucian the bishop and Basil the deacon.) I. He congratulates the Emperor on his share in the …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 227

Letter CCLVII. [3129]

… I rather understand the present prosuphainomena to refer to the proposals of Innocent to Palladius. [3136] Yet Basil will admit an addition which he holds warranted, in the case of the glorification of the Spirit …

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Gregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 99

[1027] Cf. 1 Cor. viii. 6.

… Then referring to the blasphemy of Eunomius, which had been refuted by the great Basil, where he banished the Only-begotten God to the realm of darkness, and the apology or explanation which Eunomius puts …

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Gregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 139

Preface.

… Athanasius and Basil both saw in it the means of exhibiting to the world the Christian life definitely founded on the orthodox faith; and, for each celibate himself, this visible imitation of Christ would be …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 68

Canon XV.

… after the Synod of Laodicea the people were accustomed to join in the singing, as Chrysostom and Basil the Great sufficiently testify. Bingham propounded a peculiar opinion, namely, that this Synod did indeed forbid the …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 151

Chapter VIII.

… certain indications of the use of the hymn itself are found in the fourth century. See S. Basil De Spiritu Sancto, c. xxix.; Theodoret, Eccl. Hist., II. xxiv., Sozomen, Eccl. Hist., III. xx. The Greek …

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