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Gregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 203

Chapter II.

… making inductions about the highest spiritual truths from the "history." So Basil would treat the prophecies (in Isai. v. p. 948). Chrysostom, on the Songs of "Degrees" in the Psalms, says that they are so …

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Chrysostom — Homilies on Matthew • SECTION 1

A SELECT LIBRARY

… It is true "the Three Cappadocians," Basil the Great, his brother Gregory of Nyssa, and his friend Gregory of Nazianzen, had but a qualified admiration for the exegetical results attained by Origen, though diligent in …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 169

Letter CLVII. [2515]

… and clviii., written at the same time, are very much in the same terms, they cannot be to the same person, and thinks that the sluggishness, which Basil complains of, fits with Eusebius much better …

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Socrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 176

Chapter XXXIII.--Marcellus Bishop of Ancyra; his Heresy and Deposition.

… would have an end; he had, moreover, drawn up a written document wherein these views were propounded. Basil, a man of great eloquence and learning, was invested with the bishopric of the parish of Galatia …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 67

Canon XII.

… from what St. Gregory Nazianzen says, in Epistola ad Cæsarienses, with regard to the election of St. Basil. From this what could be more evident than that after this canon was put out the people …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 258

Canon XVI.

… so much because of necessity, as for the sake of outward show, savours of dandyism, as says Basil the Great. Nor did anyone array himself in raiment embroidered with silk, nor put many coloured ornaments …

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Augustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 235

Book I. [2059]

… Traces of a similar reading are not unknown also in Greek (Origen, Basil) and Syriac (Peshitto) sources.--W.] [2065] Col. iv. 6.

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Socrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 277

Linen vestments, [1391]29.

… Peter, a monk, brother of Basil, [1826]111. Peter, archpresbyter of the church of Alexandria, [1827]144. Peter, a reader, ringleader in the murder of Hypatia, [1828]160. Pharmaceus, a port in the Euxine, name …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 171

Letter CLXI. [2540]

… If you join cordially in my prayers, I have no doubt that my troubles will easily pass away. [2544] Placed in 374. [2545] On Basil's hopes of visiting Eusebius.

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Socrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 27

Chapter XXXVI.--Of Marcellus Bishop of Ancyra, and Asterius the Sophist.

… Marcellus refused to fulfil his promise of burning his untimely book, those present deposed him, and sent Basil into Ancyra in his stead. Moreover Eusebius wrote a refutation of this work in three books, in …

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Leo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 46

Letter LXXXVI.

… To Anatolius, Bishop of Constantinople. (Commending to him two presbyters, Basil and John, who being accused of heresy had come to Rome, and quite convinced Leo of their orthodoxy.) Letter LXXXVIII. To Paschasinus, Bishop of …

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Hilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 144

Chapter IX.--Concerning what is affirmed about God.

… 2; Basil, Epist. 43 ad Greg. fratr. [1592] Dionys., De div. nom., c. 2; Greg. Naz., Orat. 37 and 45; Nyss. Epist. ad. Ablab. [1593] ho de alethes logos. [1594] Text, anthropos, which is absent …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 194

Chapter V.

… images stamped on gold instead of God. [880] The same danger is strongly spoken of by S. Basil in the "Monastic Constitutions" c. xxxiv., a passage which should be compared with the one above. [881 …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 218

Letter CCXL. [3022]

… 2, on the difference between the persecution of the Catholics by Valens and that of the earlier Christians by earlier emperors, though exile and confiscation were suffered in Basil's time. [3025] cf. Acts v …

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Socrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 40

Chapter XXV.--Of the Usurpers Magnentius and Vetranio.

… Marcellus was also ejected, and Basil again made ruler of the church at Ancyra. Lucius of Adrianople, being loaded with chains, died in prison. The reports which were made concerning Athanasius so wrought on the …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 112

Letter XLI. [2057]

Letter XLI. [2057] Basil to Julian. 1. The heroic deeds of your present splendour are small, and your grand attack against me, or rather against yourself, is paltry. When I think of you robed in …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 41

Chapter XI.

… 18. On the reading "only begotten God" cf. note on p. 9. In this passage in St. Basil "God" is the reading of three mss. at Paris, that at Moscow, that at the Bodleian, and …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 103

Letter XXIII. [1977]

… Yet while I hear whatever I do, at least I will follow the example of Alexander, and will keep one ear clear for the accused. [1980] Placed before Basil's episcopate. [1981] Vide note on …

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