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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 136

5. Attempt of Arians to substitute a Creed for the Nicene.

… These were degraded in the great Synod of Sardica; Eustathius also now of Sebastea, Demophilus and Germinius [1192] , Eudoxius, and Basil, who are supporters of that impiety, were advanced in the same manner. Of Cecropius …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 208

Ep. XIII.

… for even small things are great to the poor); for I am going to receive the great Basil, and you, who have had experience of him full and philosophical, would not like to know him …

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Hilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 189

Chapter XII.--Concerning Worship towards the East.

… For much that has been handed down to us by tradition is unwritten [2390] . [2377] Basil, De Spir. Sanct., c. 27; Alcuin, De Trin. ii. 5; Wal. Strabo, De reb. eccles, c. 4; Hon. August …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 39

Canon XX.

… homicide shall be subjected to penance for five years. Van Espen. Of voluntary and involuntary homicides St. Basil treats at length in his Canonical Epistle ad Amphilochium, can. viii., lvi. and lvii., and fixes the …

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Tertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian & Origen • SECTION 359

Chapter XLIX.

… The negative particle (ouk) is wanting in the editions of Hoeschel and Spencer, but is found in the Royal, Basil, and Vatican mss. Guietus would delete hoson (which emendation has been adopted in the translation …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 102

Letter XXI. [1912]

… rule of silence as is here given by St. Basil. St. Paul can only be quoted for the "silence" of the woman. But even St. Basil's "silence" with a view to preserving his coenobium …

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 1

A SELECT LIBRARY

… It was the age of the great Fathers, of Ambrose and Augustine in the West, of Basil, the Gregories, and Chrysostom in the East. With several of these Jerome was brought into personal contact; of …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 207

Letter CCXXV. [2910]

… If he is, it is not difficult to understand his looking with no friendly eye on Basil and his brother Gregory. He summoned a synod to Ancyra in the close of 375 to examine into …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 117

[3073] Ps. lxxv. 10.

… His wife, S. Nonna, survived him, and was present to hear the Oration, as was also S. Basil, who desired to honour one who had consecrated him to the Episcopate. The aged Saint, who died …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 61

Chapter XXX.

… i.e. after the condemnation of Arius at Nicæa. [1342] In Ep. ccxlii. written in 376, St. Basil says: "This is the thirteenth year since the outbreak of the war of heretics against us." 363 …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 86

Homily IX.

… 43. "Luscinus diebus ac noctibus continuis quindecim garrulus sine intermissu cantus, densante se frondium germine, non in novissimum digna miratu ave." [1675] So also Basil in Hom. on Isaiah iii. 447. cf. Pliny x. 81 …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 86

Canon I.

… Compare Basil (Epist., 233, and his work against Eunomius), and Epiphanius (Hær., 76). The Arians or Eudoxians. (Bright. Ut supra.) "The Arians or Eudoxians." By these are meant the ordinary Arians of the period, or …

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Chrysostom — Galatians through Philemon • SECTION 39

Homily VII.

… in Marcion, v. 19. S. Hilar. de Trin. viii. 50. S. Ambros. de Fid. i. 14. S. Basil in Eunom. iv. in Col. i. 15. Others understand the expression to denote the Only-Begotten considered …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 179

Letter CLXXXI. [2593]

… grant him speedy release from his distress. [2593] Placed in 374. [2594] In Armenia Minor, now Malatia. Basil asks him for and offers sympathy in the exile of Eusebius. Otreius was at Tyana in 367 …

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Gregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 5

Chapter II.--His General Character as a Theologian.

… Rupp.) The prophecy of Basil had come true. Nyssa was ennobled by the name of its bishop appearing on the roll of this Synod, between those of the Metropolitans of Cæsarea and Iconium. Even in …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 217

Chapter XXII.

… set aside sufficient corn for their own use, and furnished grain gratuitously for the other monks." S. Basil also, in his Monastic Constitutions cc. iv. and v., speaks strongly of the value of labour and …

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