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Hilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 6
… Its leaders, and especially Basil of Ancyra, had the ear of the Emperor, and seemed to hold the future of the Church in their hands. Hilary was on friendly terms with Basil, with whom, as …
2,596 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 119
… But Cappadocia may claim the counter credit of having given birth to three of the most famous divines, Basil and the two Gregorys. [2166] On the death of Eudoxius, in 370, Demophilus was elected by …
757 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 275
… man deserted by his wife may take another, and though he were deserted for adultery, yet St. Basil will be positive, that the other woman who afterward takes him is guilty of adultery; but the …
757 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 187
… 3. [2293] See Basil, De Spir. Sanct., c. 28, and Ep. 39; Jerome, Contr. Lucif.; Theodor., Hær. III. 4; Socrates, Hist. c. 23; Sozomen, Hist. VI. 26. [2294] Auct., Quæst. ad. Antioch. [2295] Basil., De …
2,199 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 100
… of Cyzicus, against whose Liber Apologeticus Basil wrote his counter-work. The first appearance of the hairetikos anthropos, the "chooser" of his own way rather than the common sense of the Church, is in Tit …
758 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 178
… St. Basil's canons. Van Espen. Tertullian (De Idolatria, cap. xx.) supposes that to swear by the false gods of the Gentiles, contains in itself some idolatry, an opinion shared by St. Basil, comparing those …
1,233 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 205
… LXVI. (The following letter is sometimes attributed to Basil, and is found in his works as well as in those of Gregory. The mss. however, with only a single exception, give it to the latter …
763 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 177
… She who has left her husband is an adulteress if she has come to another, according to the holy and divine Basil, who has gathered this most excellently from the prophet Jeremiah: "If a woman …
774 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 217
… also the whole of Basil, adv. Eun. ii. 23. One must not say,' he observes, that these names properly and primarily, kurios kai protos belong to men, and are given by us but by a …
2,209 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 89
Traces of Ephraim's influence are to be found in two places of Basil's writings. It can scarcely be doubted that he points to Ephraim when (De Spiritu Sancto, xxix. 74), in defending the …
2,201 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 3
… Basil of Ancyra was a man of high moral character, great learning, and powerful intellect, a consistent opponent both of the Sabellianism of Marcellus, and of every form of Arian and Anomoean heresy, a chief …
2,244 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 161
… His communication to Basil from the Western bishops must have been disappointing and unsatisfactory. On his correspondence with Basil, after his return to Antioch, see Letter clvi. His consecration by the dying Paulinus in 388 …
804 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 110
… Also Basil. Ep. 8. n. 3. while in itself,' says the same Father, it is frequently used of faint similitudes and falling very far short of the original.' Ep. 9. n. 3. Accordingly, the Council …
2,273 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 139
… Constantius to Basil of Ancyra................................................................. ................. iv. 16. Basil of Ancyra to Constantius............................................................ ...................... iv. 16. Constantius to Basil.................................................................. ................................ iv. 16. Basil to all the bishops................................................................ ............................... iv. 16. Athanasius to a friend................................................................. ............................... iv. 17. Constantius to the …
2,352 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 247
… Further, he brings me a letter from the admirable Basil. This is the greatest gain of all. You think that I have forgotten you. I had great respect for you in your youth. I saw …
826 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 87
… Synod., 68; Fragm., 11; Basil, Epist., 189, 2). No organized Sabellian sect was in existence at the date of this anathema: but Sabellian ideas were "in the air," and St. Basil could speak of a …
816 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 168
… Bas.) to be Julius Soranus, a relative of Basil, and dux of Scythia. Maran supposes that a copyist added these words to the title because Soranus was "a trainer" (aleiptes) and encourager of martyrs; in …
1,331 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 308
… 698-715, no L.C.); Basil, 1557, Musculus (V.C. 158-215, O.C. 217-231, no L.C.); Basil, 1559 (V.C. 650-698, O.C. 698-715); Par. 1562, Musculus (V.C. 160 …
2,234 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 202
… An old quarrel with Basil had made this man unfriendly to Gregory, and after persecuting him in various small ways for some time he procured, a.d. 275, the summoning of a Synod to enquire …
864 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 91
… The shorter Syriac Life gives the year as 372,--thus contradicting the History which represents him as living in the year of Basil's death (378). Even in the time of Gregory of Nyssa, an …
2,328 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 199
… from our own labours. Chapter XIX. A saying of S. Basil, the Bishop, directed against Syncletius. [900] There is current a saying of S. Basil, Bishop of Cæsarea, directed against a certain Syncletius, who was …
886 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 13
… When our saintly Basil fell asleep, and I received the legacy of Eunomius' controversy, when my heart was hot within me with bereavement, and, besides this deep sorrow for the common loss of the church …
882 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 65
… Thus Tertullian in quoting expressions of Montanus, actually says: "the Paraclete speaks"; and therefore Firmilian, Cyril of Jerusalem, Basil the Great, and other Fathers, did in fact, reproach the Montanists with this identification, and consequently …
885 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 33
… When our brethren had already started whom we despatched to you in the cause of the Faith, we received your letter, beloved, by our son Basil the deacon, in which you rightly said very little …
905 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 209
… But after Basil's elevation to the Episcopate Eustathius began to oppose him and to calumniate him on all sides, and even entered openly into communion with the Arians. It would seem that this man …
914 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 240
… This I have heard the admirable Basil say to everybody, Basil, who was your disciple, but my father and teacher. But be assured, first, that I found no rich nourishment in the precepts of my …
1,457 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 216
… note prefers to apply it to the unknown intruder into the see of Nyssa, of whom Basil speaks with yet greater contempt in Letter ccxxxix. [3010] i.e. Fronto.
1,477 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 193
… On what grounds, then, do we shew reverence to each other unless because we are made after God's image? For as Basil, that much-versed expounder of divine things, says, the honour given to …
991 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 71
… If it be said that Jerome from his Roman connection, and Basil and George as Semi-arians, would be led by their respective theologies for distinct reasons thus to speak, it is true, and may …
1,538 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 121
… On Basil's use of this word and of dogma, vide note on p. 41. [2188] i.e.the two remarkable Antiochene synods of 264 and 269, to enforce the ultimate decisions of which against …
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