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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 199
… note grounds the argument that Meletius had proposed a journey which Basil had not undertaken, and hence that the unnamed bishop of Letter ccxiii. is Meletius; and further that the fact of the bishop not …
2,288 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 7
… Gregory Thaumaturgus, Macarius of Egypt, and Basil. But Beveridge collected them in his Oxford Edition for the first time into one work; preparing a somewhat critical text by collation with some manuscripts he found at …
2,273 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 143
… with the bishops to another time. [2336] Placed in 372. [2337] Theodotus of Nicopolis was distressed at Basil's being in communion with Eustathius. Letter XCVI. [2338] To Sophronius, the master. [2339] Who ever loved …
810 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 69
… Pseudo-Basil, contr. Eun. iv. 1. fin. On the other hand Origen argues the reverse way, that since God is eternally a Father, therefore eternally Creator also: "As one cannot be father without a son …
2,258 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 47
… Yet in these brethren, that is Paschasinus and Lucentius, bishops, Boniface and Basil, presbyters, who have been deputed by the Apostolic See, let your brotherhood reckon that I am presiding [428] at the Synod; for …
815 wordsChrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 17
… the reading of most mss but four have ierosunes, "the priesthood," which Bengel adopts, thinking that neither Basil nor Chrysostom could have been elected for the higher order at so early an age, but see …
2,300 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 84
… He says, then, turning his discourse upon the subject to our master, as if he were really engaging him face to face, "Thou shalt be taken in thine own snare." For as Basil had said …
2,255 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 17
… Isaiah, based mainly on Origen, which was never completed. Garnier regards it as totally unworthy of St. Basil. Maran ( Vit. Bas. 42) would accept it, and refutes objections. Among the remarks which have seemed frivolous …
2,281 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 34
… Some time since we believe our messengers have reached you, brother, through whom you find yourself fully instructed by our writings and injunctions, and we have ourselves sent back Basil to you as you desired …
818 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 134
… Nones of May, at Constantinople, in the xxvii^th year of the reign of the imperial lord Justinian, the perpetual Augustus, and in the xii^th year after the consulate of the most illustrious Basil …
2,291 wordsChrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 11
… spoken. The Liturgy of Chrysostom so-called is an abridgment and improvement of the Liturgy of St. Basil (d. 379), and both are descended from the Liturgy of James, which they superseded. They have undergone …
2,306 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 26
… In studying the sermons, it might be supposed that Basil read nothing but the Bible. In reading the treatise on heathen authors, but for an incidental allusion to David and Methuselah, it might be supposed …
2,389 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 29
… This simplicity led Philostorgius, reflecting the false taste of his age, to pronounce Athanasius a child as compared with Basil, Gregory, or Apollinarius. To a modern reader the manliness of his character is reflected in …
2,311 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 1
… But should men like Gregory and Basil, pleading for the spirit and for faith and for mystery against the conclusions of a hard logician, be an indifferent spectacle to us? The interest, too, in the …
2,309 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 159
… is no "counsel" in God quatenus est appetitus inquisitivus, but that there is quantum ad certitudinem judicii. Basil (Hexaëm. Hom. 1), arguing against the ancient philosophers who taught that the world was made aproairetos, affirms …
837 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 117
… 2135] cf. Rom. vi. 19. [2136] cf. Hosea ii. 13. [2137] cf. Luke xvii. 2. [2138] St. Basil has no idea of the image and likeness of God being a bodily likeness, as in the …
818 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 87
… so much reproached those who take in hand to write without logical skill? You, who say to Basil, "You show your own ignorance when you say that definitions of the terms that express things spiritual …
2,323 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 239
… most precious fruits of piety, although derived from a foreign root. [3233] Placed at the end of Basil's life. [3234] Matt. xi. 29. Letter CCLXXVIII. [3235] To Valerianus. I desired, when in Orphanene, [3236 …
849 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 181
… note 6. [2042] tais ennoiais chromenoi, pros tas epinoias apentesamen. cf. ouchi epinoia, paranoia de mallon, &c. Basil. contr. Eunom. i. 6. init. [2043] Phil. ii. 5-11. [2044] homoios kata panta, de Syn. 21 …
2,358 wordsChrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 174
… Paulinus, sec. 34), forbade Theodosius to enter the church at all, after the massacre of Thessalonica. St. Basil refused Communion to Valens, who had joined the Arians, but did not attempt to prevent his entering …
832 wordsChrysostom — Galatians through Philemon • SECTION 129
… Nyss. de Vita Mosis, p. 194; Petavius, Theol. Dog. de Ang. l. ii. c. 8, cites St. Basil, contr. Eunom. p. 70, and on Ps. xxxiii. p. 220, &c. [756] [There was among the forms …
804 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 190
… that we need have no difficulty in supposing some saint whose date would synchronize with the letter. Basil, however, may have tried to drive to the shrine of some martyr on some other day than …
865 wordsChrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 26
Book IV. Basil heard this, and after a little pause thus replied: If thou wert thyself ambitious of obtaining this office, thy fear would have been reasonable; for in being ambitious of undertaking it, a …
2,400 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 252
… many theologians wish to find a vestige of this interdict in the IV^th century, in St. Basil's epistle cclxx. (otherwise ccxliv.), where the holy doctor teaches that the person who carries off by …
846 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 74
… studied what others had written before him, and made use of what had been urged by SS. Basil, Didymus, and others. The opinion of the great St. Augustine concerning this treatise may be set against …
868 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 123
… Homer Il. x. 173. [3263] Nazarites, i.e., "the monks." [3264] Your divine, etc., addressed to S. Basil. [3265] There was lacking. The Council of Nicæa ordered that a Bishop should be consecrated by at …
2,373 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 131
… referring to such writers as Herodotus, Tacitus, and Pliny. Other Fathers, Tertullian, St. Cyril of Jerusalem, St. Basil, with several more, refer also to the fable of the Phoenix in speaking of the Resurrection. [1536 …
869 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 135
… John further made use of Basil the great, of Gregory of Nyssa, and especially of Nemesius, bishop of Emesa in Syria, the most beloved of all; likewise of Cyril of Alexandria, Leo the Great, Leontius …
2,413 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 99
… I suppose, could endure to wander further when he had found the Echinades. [1896] [1892] Placed after Basil's choice of his Pontic retreat. Translated by Newman, whose version is here given (Church of the …
884 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 6
… With regard, then, to this created Spirit-world we find that Gregory, as Basil, teaches that it existed, i.e. it had been created, before the work of the Six Days began. God made all …
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