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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 15

[403] John vi. 64.

… Three orations are published among Basil's works, two on the creation of men and one on Paradise, which are attributed to Basil by Combefis and Du Pin, but not considered genuine by Tillemont, Maran …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 11

II. Works.

… Gregory of Nazianzus, [303] Jerome, [304] and Theodoret [305] all testify to Basil's having written against Eunomius, but do not specify the number of books. Books IV. and V. are accepted by Bellarmine, Du …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 152

Letter CXV. [2387]

… Straightway the just judgment of God slew some of them, and Simplicia sent money to the blessed Basil to make amends for the injury. Basil refused to receive it, and wrote this Letter." This extraordinary …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 252

[3637] §49.

… also Basil. contr. Eun. ii. 28; Theod. Inconfus. p. 91; Basil. Ep. 38. 7 fin. [Through missing this point the] Arians asked why the Son was not the beginning of a theogonia. Supr. p. 319 …

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Gregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 3

Chapter I.--A Sketch of the Life of S. Gregory of Nyssa.

… and it is safe to conclude that he was introduced to all that Athens had to teach, perhaps even to medicine, by Basil: for Basil had been at Athens. On the other hand we can …

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Gregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 10

Chapter IV.--His Teaching on the Holy Trinity.

… and his reply to it marks his departure from S. Basil's position, though, if the treatise, De Diff. Essen. et Hyp. be S. Basil's, S. Gregory was but following out and defending the …

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Gregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 14

Letter II.

… This is Basil's 'Anatreptikos tou apologetikou tou duosebous Eunomiou. Basil,' says Photius, with difficulty got hold of Eunomius' book,' perhaps because it was written originally for a small circle of readers, and was in …

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Gregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 90

Our goods and our gold let us leave;

… Penitent sent to Ephraim by Basil: Basil's Death.--The death of Basil (at the end of 378) is said by our author to have caused great grief to Ephraim, and to have been lamented …

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Hilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 143

[1504] Greg. Naz., Orat. 35.

… 2; Basil, Contra Eunom. iv.; Greg. Naz., Orat. 35. [1526] axiomati. [1527] Basil, bk. ii. and iv. [1528] Greg. Naz., Orat. 36 and 37. [1529] Man. Dialog. contr. Arian. [1530] Cyril, Thes., assert. 1, p …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 131

Letter LXX. [2251]

… Some Nazianzene scandal-mongers had charged Basil with heterodoxy. Gregory asked him for explanations, and Basil, somewhat wounded, rejoins that no explanations are needed. The translation in the text with the exception of the passages …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 120

Letter L. [2172]

… 370. [2176] Bosporius, an intimate friend of Basil and of Gregory of Nazianzus, was bishop of Colonia, in Cappadocia Secunda. Basil left Cæsarea in 360 in distress at hearing that Dianius had subscribed the creed …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 125

Letter LVII. [2208]

… Letter xcv.) The secret instructions given him "seem to refer to Basil's design for giving peace to the Church, which Basil did not attempt to carry out before his tranquilization of Cappadocia, but may …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 89

Introduction to the Letters.

Introduction to the Letters. ------------------------ Of Saint Basil the extant letters, according to popular ascription, number three hundred and sixty-six. Of these three hundred and twenty-five, or, according to some, only three hundred and …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 50

Chapter XX.

… Here by Nature seems to be meant something like Basil's "lack of intelligence," and of the to kata phusin archon, which makes it "profitable" for one man to be the chattel of another (ktema …

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