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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 159

Canon XXIV.

… dissolved. Van Espen. The sacred canon to which the Synod here refers is number xxvij. of St. Basil in his Canonical Epistle to Amphilochius. Canon XXVII. None of those who are in the catalogue of …

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Augustine — Homilies on John & First John • SECTION 236

St. AUGUSTIN:

… it is said, "Who only hath immortality." [2568] John i. 2. [2569] So ton alethinon Theon. St. Basil, St. Cyril. Al. Vers. Arab. Aeth. Cod. Al. (ALEThEINONThN, which abbreviated manner of writing may explain the …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 210

Chapter CXVII.

… Replies to him have been made by Apollinarius, Didymus, Basil of Cæsarea, Gregory Nazianzen, and Gregory of Nyssa. [2553] Bishop 360, died before 396. Chapter CXXI. Priscillianus, [2554] bishop of Abila, belonged to the party …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 106

Letter XXIX. [2000]

… Vide account of Basil's family in the prolegomena.

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 38

Letter of Alexander of Alexandria to his namesake of Byzantium.

… CP. 336. Feb. 8. Athanasius starts for Treveri in Gaul.' Council at CP., Marcellus (Asclepas), &c., deposed. Basil, bishop of Ancyra. Death of Arius at CP. 337. May 22. Death of Constantine at Nicomedia. June …

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Socrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 43

Chapter XXXI.--Of Hosius, Bishop of Cordova.

… In their presence, Basil, who at that time presided over the church at Ancyra, was appointed to oppose Photinus, and short-hand writers took down their respective speeches. The conflict of arguments on both sides …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 137

Letter LXXXIV. [2289]

… The orphan grandson of the aged man in whose behalf Basil writes had been placed on the Senatorial roll, and the old man in consequence was compelled to serve again.

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 2

Councils of Tyre and Jerusalem; first exile of Athanasius.

… Gratianus, son of Valentinian, declared Augustus. æt. s.8. Theod. v. 1. 5th exile of Athanasius. 370. Basil becomes bishop of Cæsarea. Theod. iv. 16; Soc. iv. 26; Soz. vi. 16. 372. Gregory of Nazianzus …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 237

Letter CCLXXII. [3226]

… general, but because I recognise you individually as a benefactor both of my country and of myself. [3226] Written in the last years of Basil's life. [3227] cf. p. 134, n. [3228] Plut., Alex.

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 36

Canon XI.

… cave, viz.: If he to whom she was espoused demand her to be his wife. Compare St. Basil's twenty-second canon in his letter to Amphilochius, where it is so ruled. Canon XII. It …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 215

Chapter XIV.

… In this way he opened to the Latin speaking church the greater part of the Greek literature; translating the works of Basil of Cæsarea in Cappadocia, Gregory Nazianzan, that most eloquent man, the Recognitions of …

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Leo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 31

Letter XXXIV.

… the differences between them being (l) the greater length and fuller treatment of the second; and (2) that the one is entrusted to Leo's legates, the other to Julius' own messenger, Basil the deacon …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 174

Letter CLXIX. [2559]

Letter CLXIX. [2559] Basil to Gregory. [2560] You have undertaken a kindly and charitable task in getting together the captive troop of the insolent Glycerius (at present I must so write), and, so far as …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 98

Letter X. [1883]

… Only write to me. [1888] Of the same date as the preceding. [1889] Olympius was an influential friend of Basil's, and sympathized with him in his later troubles, and under the attacks of Eustathius …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 232

Letter CCLXIV. [3195]

Letter CCLXIV. [3195] To Barses, bishop of Edessa, in exile. [3196] To Barses the bishop, truly God-beloved and worthy of all reverence and honour, Basil sends greeting in the Lord. As my dear brother …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 64

Canon V.

… Heretics are not to be permitted to enter the house of God, and yet Basil the Great, before this canon was set forth, admitted Valens to the perfecting of the faithful [i.e., to the …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 23

FIRST CATECHETICAL LECTURE

… It is more likely to have been borrowed from Cyril by Basil and other Fathers, than to be a later interpolation here. [449] 1 Pet. v. 8. [450] Eph. vi. 15. [451] Is. xxvii. 1 …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 207

Chapter LXXXVIII.

… He flourished during the reign of Constantinus and his sons. [2513] Born 251, died 356. Chapter LXXXIX. Basil [2514] bishop of Ancyra, [a doctor of] [2515] medicine, wrote a book Against Marcellus and on virginity …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 175

Letter CLXX. [2564]

… There seems an evident allusion to this passage, but not such as to enable Basil to be positively ranked with Chrysostom in his apparent interpretation of bathmos objectively of preferment, or with Theodoret in his …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 158

Chapter V.

… morning hymn of the early Church (see the notes on c. iii.), and we learn from S. Basil that in his day Ps. l. (ho tes exomologeseos psalmos) was regularly sung after Mattins when the …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 168

Canon LIII.

… The divine scriptures plainly teach us as follows, "Thou shalt not approach to any that is near of kin to thee to uncover their nakedness." Basil, the bearer-of-God, has enumerated in his canons …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 128

Letter LXII. [2225]

… The result of Basil's appeal to the Parnassenes was the election of an orthodox bishop, expelled by the Arians in 375, and named Hypsis or Hypsinus. cf. Letter ccxxxvii., where Ecdicius is said to …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 47

Chapter XVIII.

… divine Monarchy, making it, as it were, three powers and divided subsistences and three godheads." So St. Basil Cont. Eunom. ii. 'Arche men oun patros oudemia, arche de tou huiou ho pater. And in Ep …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 162

Chapter II.

… also the Rule of S. Benedict, c. lviii., which is to much the same effect, and S. Basil's Longer Monastic Rules, Q. x. Chapter IV. The reason why those who are received in the …

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