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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 249

Letter CCCXL.

… Libanius to Basil. Had you been for a long time considering how best you could reply to my letter about yours, you could not in my judgment have acquitted yourself better than by writing as …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 18

[481] p. 118.

… 4. [483] Im Allgemeinen und im Grundsatze aber ist Basil gegen die allegorische Erkärungsweise, so oft er sie dann auch im Einzelnen anwendet. Böhringer, Basil, p. 116. [484] cf. Gieseler i. p. 109. [485] Or …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 250

Letter CCCXLIV.

… Libanius to Basil. It is, I think, more needful for me to defend myself for not having begun to write to you long ago, than to offer any excuse for beginning now. I am that …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 237

Introduction to de Synodis.

… There accompanied Basil of Ancyra from the Seleucian Synod to Constantinople a young deacon and ascetic, who read and welcomed the appeal of Athanasius. Writing a few months later, this young theologian, Basil of Cæsarea …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 91

Prolegomena.

… John the Evangelist alone among the Fathers of the Church, was, like the great Basil of Cæsarea and his brother Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, by birth a Cappadocian. He was born at Arianzus, a country …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 236

Letter CCLXX. [3221]

… Thus will you benefit yourself and gratify me. [3224] Placed at the end of Basil's life. [3225] Apparently a schoolfellow of Basil, not to be identified with any of the others of the name.

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 176

[4308] Hos. ix. 10 (LXX.).

… It has then been ordained that the great Basil, who used so constantly to furnish me with subjects for my discourses, of which he was quite as proud as any other man of his own …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 48

[1088] Is. xliv. 6.

… St. Basil's mind may be the megalosune of the Son. At the same time, while the Western Church was in the main unanimous as to the double procession, this passage from St. Basil is …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 248

Letter CCCXXXVIII.

… Libanius to Basil. I know you will often write, "Here is another Cappadocian for you!" I expect that you will send me many. I am sure that you are everywhere putting pressure on both fathers …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 108

Letter XXXIII. [2013]

… The majority of the presbyters were true to the Catholic cause, and Basil maintained friendship and intercourse with them. cf. Letters lxvii., cxiii., cxiv. [2017] Basil is supposed to have in the meanwhile carried out …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 246

Letter CCCVII.

… To Hyperectius. [On Basil's health.] Letter CCCXXIX. To Phalirius. With thanks for a present of fish.] Letters CCCXXX., CCCXXXI., CCCXXXII., CCCXXXIII. [All short and without address. Letters from CCCXXIII. to CCCXXXIII. have no importance …

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Chrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 3

Chapter III.--His Conversion and Ascetic Life.

… 223), confound this Basil with Basil the Great of Cappadocia, who was eighteen years older than Chrysostom and died in 379. Chrysostom's friend was probably (as Baronius and Montfaucon conjecture) identical with Basil, bishop …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 40

Chapter X.

… The intellectual championship of Basil was chiefly asserted in the vindication of the consubstantiality of the Spirit, against the Arians and Semi-Arians, of whom Euonomius and Macedonius were leaders, the latter giving his name …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 197

Ep. VIII.

… To the Great Basil. (About the middle of the year 370. On the death of Eusebius Basil seems to have formed a desire that his friend Gregory should succeed to the vacant Metropolitanate; and so …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 193

Letter CCV. [2751]

[2733] Placed in 375. [2734] Newman introduces his extracts from the following letter with the prefatory remark: "If Basil's Semi-Arian connexions brought suspicion upon himself in the eyes of Catholic believers, much more …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 51

Chapter XXI.

… Moreover, in the Regius Quintus they are only inserted by a second hand, but since they are shortly afterwards repeated by Basil, as though taken from the sacred context, I am unwilling to delete them …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 30

TOU AGIOU BAChILEIOU PERI TOU PNEUMATOCh BIBLION.

… THE BOOK OF SAINT BASIL ON THE SPIRIT. DE SPIRITU SANCTO. ------------------------ Preface. ------------------------ The heresy of Arius lowered the dignity of the Holy Ghost as well as that of the Son. He taught that the Three …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 164

Canon XL.

… For although the great Basil in his holy canons decreed that she who willingly offers to God and embraces virginity, if she has completed her seventeenth year, is to be entered in the order of …

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