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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 167

Introduction to Four Discourses Against the Arians.

… Characteristic of this period is the anxiety to conciliate and win over the so-called semi-Arians (of the type of Basil of Ancyra) who stumbled at the homoousion, but whose fundamental agreement with Athanasius …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 118

Of the same from the same book:--

… For Mary was our sister, since we are all of Adam, a fact which no one could doubt who remembers the words of Luke." [1142] Testimony of the holy Basil, bishop of Cæsarea:-- From the …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 10

Chapter V.--Eucharistic Rites. Liturgy.

… to shew an advance in doctrine beyond the earliest Liturgies. In those of S. James and S. Basil we find prayers that the offering may be acceptable as a propitiation "for the rest of the …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 84

[2241] Acts xvii. 32; xxvi. 24.

… it." The law wholly failed to suppress a superstition which was sanctioned by such men as Cyril, Basil, Chrysostom, Ambrose, and Augustine. [2284] ek tes hupertheseos tes nesteias tes paraskeues, Ed. Bened. "The ecclesiastical term …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 13

Chapter VII.--Eucharistic Doctrine.

… 341. [277] Basil, apud Bingham, X. 5, § 4. [278] De Spiritu S. c. xxvii. [279] Ant. X. v. § 4. [280] Bingh. XII. iii. § 3. Cf. Apost. Const. III. c. 17. "This Baptism therefore is into …

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Gregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 86

HYMNS AND HOMILIES

… and a champion against heresy; and no less as an ascetic and saint. The fame of St. Basil, metropolitan of Cæsarea in Cappadocia (370-379), drew him from his solitude to visit that great prelate …

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Tertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 278

[5849] Dum alterius par est.

… The early fathers, Justin Martyr, Clement of Alex., Origen, as well as Didymus of Alex., Gregory Nyssen., and Basil, held distinctly the threefold nature. Our own divines, as is natural, are also divided in views …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 115

Introduction to the de Sententia Dionysii.

… Posterity, which enveloped the name of Origen with storms of controversy, did not entirely spare his pupil: Basil (Ep. 41) taxes him with sowing the first seeds of the Anomoean heresy, Gennadius (Eccl. Dogm. iv …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 141

Chapter II.

… Fathers, the Institutes, and the lives of them; what, too, the Rule of our holy father, S. Basil, but examples of virtuous and obedient monks, and helps to the attainment of virtue?" Equally strong is …

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