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Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 12

Canonical Epistle. [121]

… not indicated either the times appointed for their exercise, or the sins for which discipline is determined. Basil the Great, again, has handed down to us an accurate account of these things in his canonical …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 92

Letter V. [1768]

… The identification of the two Nectarii is conjectural. "Tillemont is inclined to identify Basil's correspondent with the future bishop of Constantinople, but without sufficient grounds." D.C.B. see. [1770] cf. Luke xiii. 16 …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 146

Letter C. [2351]

… note, in answer to the suggested unlikelihood of Basil's being plotted against by his brother, calls attention to the fact that this opposition was due not to want of affection but to want of …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 147

Letter CII. [2357]

… note points out that the words priests and deacons probably crept into the mss., in all of which it is found, from the margin, inasmuch as by hieromenous and cognate words Basil means the whole …

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The Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 140

Chapter XXII.--Motions of the Stars.

… from ox-flesh; others from cow-dung, as beetles; others from herbs, as the scorpion from the basil; and again, herbs from animals, as parsley and asparagus from the horn of the stag or the …

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Socrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 49

Chapter XXXIX.--Of the Synod at Seleucia, in Isauria.

… but those present said that no question ought to be agitated in the absence of those prelates who had not yet arrived; for Macedonius, bishop of Constantinople, Basil of Ancyra, and some others who were …

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Chrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 15

Book I.

… But after a short time, when one who was to ordain us arrived, I kept myself concealed, but Basil, ignorant of this, was taken away on another pretext, and made to take the yoke, hoping …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 195

[2329] 21, note 2.

… against the use of the word. Also S. Basil objects to hupourgos contr. Eunom. ii. 21. and S. Cyril in Joan. p. 48. though S. Basil speaks of ton prostattonta kurion. i. 46, note 3 …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 245

Letter CCXCVI.

… To a widow. [A short letter in which Basil excuses himself for making use of the widow's mules.] Letter CCXCVII. To a widow. [A short letter of introduction.] Letter CCXCVIII. Without address. [A short …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 150

Canon II.

… Alexandria and Martyr; of Gregory the Wonder-worker, Bishop of Neocæsarea; of Athanasius, Archbishop of Alexandria; of Basil, Archbishop of Cæsarea in Cappadocia; of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa; of Gregory Theologus; of Amphilochius of Iconium …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 186

Letter CXCI. [2671]

… 2677] Whether the proposed meeting took place, and, indeed, what meeting is referred to, cannot be determined. Basil met Amphilochius and some neighbouring bishops in Pisidia in 375. But before this he counts the Isaurians …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 55

Chapter XXVI.

… Benedictine text adopts the common reading gennetois, with the note, "Sed discrimen illud parvi momenti." If St. Basil wrote gennetois, he used it in the looser sense of mortal: in its strict sense of "begotten …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 107

Letter XXXI. [2006]

… Sophronius was a fellow student with Basil at Athens, and a friend of Gregory of Nazianzus. He secured the favour of Valens, who was staying at Cæsarea in 365, by conveying him intelligence of the …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 164

Chapter VIII.

… are to lay bare all the secrets of their hearts to their superior is given, by S. Basil in the Longer Monastic Rules, Q. xxvi., and in the Rule of S. Isaiah (cc. vi., xliii …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 132

Letter LXXII. [2257]

… illustrate the efforts made by Basil to mitigate the troubles caused by slavery, and to regulate domestic as well as ecclesiastical matters. Letter LXXIII. [2259] To Callisthenes. 1. When I had read your letter I …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 211

Letter CCXXX. [2937]

… The name might be thought to fit Anthimus, but with him Basil had made peace. cf. Letter ccx. [2946] en somati& 251;, i.e. in a volume, not on leaves of papyrus, but in book …

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Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 114

Canon I.

… shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve." [2281] [The Canonical Epistles of Basil have been heretofore mentioned. Vol. v. p. 572, elucidation.] [2282] These Canons of Peter of Alexandria are …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 233

Letter CCLXVI. [3209]

… note points out that the accusation against Eusebius (of Samosata) and Meletius was monstrous, and remarks on the delicacy with which Basil approaches it, without directly charging Petrus, from whom it must have come, with …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 1

A SELECT LIBRARY

… Birth of Basil of Cæsarea, "the Great." 330. Byzantium dedicated as Constantinople, May 11th. cf. Theod. i. 18; Soc. i. 16; Soz. i. 3. 331. Birth of Julian. Perhaps the deposition of Eustathius. 333. Constantine …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 124

Letter LV. [2203]

… 973.) The Canon of Nicæa, to which Basil refers, only allowed the introduction of a mother, sister, or aunt. The still more extraordinary and perilous custom of ladies of professed celibacy entertaining male suneisaktoi, referred …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 123

Canon X.

… The Basiliad at Cæsarea was a xenodocheion as well as a ptocheion; it contained katagogia tois xenois, as well as for wayfayers, and those who needed assistance on account of illness, and Basil distinguished various …

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