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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 16

Canon VIII.

… which country presbyters had not (Conc. Ancyr. can. xiii.; Neo-Cæsar. can. xiv.; Antioch, can. x.; St. Basil M. Epist. 181; Rab. Maur. De Instit. Cler. i. 5, etc. etc.). They were held therefore to …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 221

Letter CCXLIV. [3051]

… You have been, as it were, amazed and astounded, at the idea of the change in the notorious Basil. Why, ever since he was a boy he did such and such service to such an …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 221

[3043] ii. 59. n. 5.

… Godhead, but His soul, &c.' Ambros. de Fid. ii. n. 56. vid. a beautiful passage in S. Basil's Hom. iv. 5. in which he insists on our Lord's having wept to shew us …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 2

Prolegomena.

… More scattered notices in later ecclesiastical writers of the fourth century, especially Epiphanius; also Synesius, Jerome, Basil, &c., in the documents of the Councils, &c., and in the Life of Pachomius and other early documents …

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Augustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 21

TO The Right Reverend The Lord Bishop OF Exeter.

… labours of Origen; in the catechetical teaching of the elder Cyril; in the chaste descriptive power of Basil; in the simplicity and self-denial of Ambrose; in the fervid eloquence of the "golden-mouthed" Chrysostom …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 108

Canon VIII.

… and again, Basil of Ancyra, and the other Bishops, who had embraced the errors of the Iconoclasts, again offered another, although the Canon of Ephesus pronounced, that "it should not be lawful to offer to …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 184

[2100] John xvii. 22.

… Eunomius said that our Lord was utterly separate from the Father, by natural law,' nomo phuseos; S. Basil observes, as if the God of all had not power over Himself, heautou kurios, but were in …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 148

[3710] Isa. viii. 19.

… It is very frequently used in this limited sense; examples of which may readily be found in Gregory of Nyssa, Basil, Chrysostom, and others. A similar use occurs in Orat. XXXVIII., c. 8, in which …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 106

[2774] Ps. xxxiii. 6.

… General (Disc. Eccles., I., ii., 7 §§ 2, 3). A similar post was offered to him by S. Basil (Orat., xliii., 39). [2885] 1 Sam. x. 22. [2886] Ezek. iii. 18. [2887] 1 Sam. xv. 26 …

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Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 63

XVIII. [1125]

… our Lord; [1137] to whom be glory and majesty, with the Holy Spirit, for ever. [1134] In Basil, De Spiritu Sancto, ch. xxix. § 73; Works, vol. iii. p. 61, edit. Paris. [Elucidation II.] [1135] For …

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Hilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 19

[79] E.g. x. 54 in.

… the words in substance' or in all things,' he had fallen into the justly condemned heresy of Basil of Ancyra. They demand an explicit statement that he never had said, and never would say, anything …

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