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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 172

[1882] Ps. ii. 1.

… 70; Basil de Sp. S. n. 32; Pseudo-Athan. de comm. ess. 6. On the other hand, the word pneuma, Spirit, is used more or less distinctly for our Lord's Divine Nature whether in …

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Gregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 99

[335] Ib. XVI. 7; XVII. 8.

… This is refuted by Wright's objection, that, if the name Jacob had been given so early, the name Aphrahat would have been entirely disused or forgotten. [333] Basil (Homil. in Hexaem. II. 6) shows …

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Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 226

ELUCIDATIONS.

… but the Eucharist.' The word translated invocation' is epi'klesin; and it is worthy of notice that Basil and Cyril of Jerusalem use the same word in evidently the same technical sense (Harvey's Irenæus …

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Socrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 3

[27] I. 12, 19; III. 19; IV. 24, 26.

… He is incorrect on several particulars in the lives of Basil and Gregory of Nazianzus, as also in assigning the attack at night on the church of St. Theonas to the usurpation of Gregory, the …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 244

[As read in Greek to the Council.]

… glorious princes said: See how our father grieved at the depicted history, even so that he wept. Basil, the most holy bishop of Ancyra, said: Many times the father had read the story, but perchance …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 176

[1971] Rom. i. 23, and §2.

… Eph. iii. 15. [1975] John i. 1. [1976] Heb. i. 3. [1977] Rom. ix. 5. [1978] Vid. Basil, contr. Eunom. ii. 17. [1979] This cautious and reverent way of speaking is a characteristic of S …

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Gregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 86

Book IX.

… 3. [887] Or perhaps "or an irrational first cause," (alogon archen.) [888] The reference is to S. Basil adv. Eunomium II. 12 (p. 247 in Ben. ed.) [889] Cf. Heb. xi. 4 [890] Reading humas …

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Leo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 64

Letter CXL.

… To Basil, Bishop of Antioch. (Asking him to give no countenance to the demand for a new Synod.) Letter CL. To Euxitheus, Bishop of Thessalonica (and Others). (To the same effect.) Letter CLI. To Anatolius …

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Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 36

[607] Epistle to Philemon, infra.

… in Esaiam), Athanasius (De Sententia Dionysii, and De Synodi Nicænæ Decretis), Basil (De Spiritu Sancto, ch. 29; Epist. ad Amphiloch., and Epist. ad Maximum). Among modern authorities, we may refer specially to the Dissertation on …

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Gregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 163

On the Making of Man.

… For he alone has worthily considered the creation of God who truly was created after God, and whose soul was fashioned in the image of Him Who created him,--Basil, our common father and teacher …

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Socrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 42

Chapter XXIX.--Of the Heresiarch Photinus.

… sent, as I have before said, having placed him over that see on the removal of Gregory, Basil who presided over the church at Ancyra after Marcellus was ejected, Pancratius of Pelusium, and Hypatian of …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 114

[3027] Carmina Hist., xi., 487.

… and others, cf. Epist. 58, in which his mode of teaching is contrasted with that of S. Basil. [3047] S. Matt. v. 15. Oration XVI. On His Father's Silence, Because of the Plague of …

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Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 1

ANTE-NICENE FATHERS

… Roman Empire, p. 8, ed. New York, 1866. [2] De Opificio Dei, cap. xxi. p. 395, ed. Basil, 1521. [3] Thus the Apocalyptic comments of Victorinus must be compared with those of Commodian and Hippolytus …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 238

Councils of Ariminum and Seleucia.

… The party of Basil of Ancyra are with us on the main question. §42. Coessential' conveys a meaning which they would adopt. §43, 44. Alleged rejection of the term by the 70 bishops at Antioch …

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