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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 137

10. They ought first to condemn Arius, if they are to be heard.

… xii. 6; xv. 28; xii. 5. [1204] Ap. ad Const. §28. Hist. Arian. §73, supr. [1205] Vid. Basil. Ep. 223. 3. [1206] Matt. xxii. 29. [1207] theomachoi [1208] John i. 14; Ps. xciv. 11; John …

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Chrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 2

Chapter II.--Chrysostom's Youth and Training, a.d. 347-370.

… occur in the oldest mss. of Chrysostom's Liturgy, but in those of the Liturgy of St. Basil. It precedes the third anthem in the communion service, and was used since the ninth century or …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 79

Chapter IX.--Of the heresy of the Audiani.

… 577. [707] Archbishop of Iconium, the friend of Basil and first cousin of Gregory of Nazianzus, B. probably about 344. He is not mentioned after the beginning of the 5th century. [708] cf. ii. 19 …

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Leo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 45

Letter LXXXI.

… Although I hope, beloved, you are devoted to every good work, yet that your activity may be rendered the more effective, it was needful and fitting to despatch my brothers Lucentius the bishop and Basil

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 192

Chapter XXX.--The Pupils of Origen.

… to his fame as a miracle-worker, Gregory of Nyssa's Vita, is full of it, and Basil and other later writers dwell upon it. What the foundation for all these traditions was we do …

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Ambrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 79

Chapter IV.

… Holy Spirit, which would seem to imply the full formula, and he would hardly dissent from St. Basil, who distinctly asserts [De Sp. Sanct. XII.] that baptism without mention of the Three Persons is invalid …

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Socrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 75

Chapter XXVII.--Of Gregory Thaumaturgus (the Wonder-Worker).

… the first and most ancient was the disciple of Origen; the second was the bishop of Nazianzus; the third was Basil's brother; and there was another Gregory [648] whom the Arians constituted bishop during …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 156

Letter CXXVI. [2418]

… Moreover, thank God that your pupils everywhere exhibit your reverence's character. [2420] Placed in 373. [2421] On Basil's difficulties while at Nicopolis, with a request for the sympathy of Eusebius. Letter CXXVIII. [2422 …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 144

Book I.

… girdle this is," unless Paul had always been accustomed to fasten it round his loins. [637] Cf. Basil's Greater Monastic Rules, Q. xxii., from which a considerable portion of this chapter is taken. [638 …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 145

Letter XCIX. [2347]

… In 372 he was in command of twelve legions in Georgia, and Basil communicates with him about providing bishops for the Armenian Church. According to some manuscripts of Letter cv., q.v., his three daughters …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 130

Canon XXV.

… without consent of the bishop or of the person appointed, eis oikonomian eupoiias (canon viij.); and St. Basil mentions the oeconomi of his own church (Epist., xxiij. 1), and the "tamiai of the sacred goods …

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Leo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 55

Letter CX.

… I wish to know whether my letter [478] has been delivered to you, brother, which I sent you by Basil the deacon, upon the Faith of the Lord's Incarnation, while Flavian of holy memory …

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Chrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 25

[86] Exod. xxviii. 4 sq.

… the middle of the 4th century. St. Ambrose mentions one at Bologna. De Virg. i. 10. St. Basil is said to have founded some (see St. Greg. Naz. Orat. 47). [121] Ecclus. xlii. 9. [122 …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 187

Letter CXCIV. [2681]

… The letter of Basil is in reply to a request for the restoration to his native city of the relics of St. Dionysius of Milan, who died in Cappadocia in 374. cf. Ath., Ep. ad …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 19

Canon XII.

… This discretionary power of the bishop to dispense with part of a penance-time is recognized in the fifth canon of Ancyra and the sixteenth of Chalcedon, and mentioned by Basil, Epist. 217, c. 74 …

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Gospel of Peter, Diatessaron, Apocalypse of Peter & Other Early Texts • SECTION 111

Letter of Origen to Gregory.

… This letter to Gregory, afterwards bishop of Cæsarea, and called Thaumaturgus, was preserved in the Philocalia, or collection of extracts from Origen's works drawn up by Gregory of Nyssa and Basil of Cæsarea. It …

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Hilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 148

Chapter II.--Concerning the creation.

… 4 and 5; Basil, Hex. 1; Chrysost., 2 Hom. in Gen.; Theodor., Quæst. 3in Gen. [1669] Greg. Naz., Orat. 2.

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