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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 201

Ep. XXIII.

… Gregory writes (as also did Basil) to congratulate him on his escape, and profits by the occasion to urge upon him retirement from his secular avocations. Cæsarius soon resolved to follow this advice, and was …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 127

Letter LX. [2221]

… Athanasius, in the few years of comparative calm which preceded his death in May, 373, had excommunicated a vicious governor in Libya, a native of Cappadocia, and announced his act to Basil. The intercourse opened …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 177

Letter CLXXV. [2576]

… On the identification of this officer with the recipient of cccxxv., see that letter. [2578] But what Basil declined to do at the prompting of Magnenianus, he shortly afterwards did for Amphilochius, and wrote the …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 226

Letter CCLV. [3121]

… Letter CCLVI. [3123] To the very well beloved and reverend brethren the presbyters Acacius, Aetius, Paulus, and Silvanus; the deacons Silvinus and Lucius, and the rest of the brethren the monks, Basil, the bishop. [3124 …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 216

Ep. LIII.

… LIII. (Gregory put a collection of Basil's letters with his own, and gave them the first place. Nicobulus seems to have been surprised at this, and asked the reason. Gregory explains as follows.) I …

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Hilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 149

Chapter IV.--Concerning the devil and demons.

… 4; Basil, Hex. hom. 3, &c. [1684] Ps. cxv. 16. [1685] Ib. cxlviii. 4. [1686] 2 Cor. xii. 2. [1687] Gen. i. 8. [1688] Basil, Hom. 1 in Hexaëmeron. [1689] The Peripatetics. See Nemes., ch …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 279

Canon LXXXVI.

… though he was 70 years of age, and declared himself free from all amorous affections; and St. Basil would seem to believe him in this particular; but cites the III. canon of Nice against this …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 35

Chapter VI.

… of Basil. The words are wanting in one codex. In Chapter viii. of this work St. Basil distinctly quotes Scripture as calling the Son "only begotten God." (Chapter viii. Section 17.) But in Chapter xi …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 238

Letter CCLXXIII. [3229]

… I shall then have this one more kindness to reckon in addition to the many which I have already received at your hands. [3229] Written in the last years of Basil's life. Letter CCLXXIV …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 253

Letter CCCLX. [3289]

… The vocabulary and style are unlike that of Basil. [3290] Neuter sc. prosopa, not hupostaseis, as we should expect in Basil. [3291] ensarkon oikonomian, an expression I do not recall in Basil's genuine writings …

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Gregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 17

[77] hupothesis.

… Facts show that the terms of abuse which he has employed against Basil are more suitable for himself. But these remarks are by the way, and come from our not keeping close to our argument …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 129

Letter LXV. [2232]

… 4, Atarbius is supposed to be a kinsman of Basil. [2234] 1 Cor. xiii. 7 and 8. [2235] cf. Gal. v. 22. [2236] i.e. the attacks of Valens on the Church. Letter LXVI. [2237 …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 36

Chapter VII.

… 822] en. [823] cf. Gal. i. 14. [824] The verb, entribomai, appears to be used by St. Basil, if he wrote entetrimmenon in the sense of to be entribes or versed in a thing (cf …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 40

Canon XXIV.

… In this synod the Holy Fathers gathered together, among whom was the holy Martyr Basil, bishop of Amasea, adopted canons for the establishing of ecclesiastical order as follow-- The Canons of the Holy and Blessed …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 45

Canon XIII.

… Eusebius, Ælian, Eugenius, Olympius, Bithynicus, Gregory, Philetus, Pappus, Eulalius, Hypatius, Proæresius, Basil and Bassus, [148] assembled in the holy Synod at Gangra, to our most honoured lords and fellow-ministers in Armenia wish health in …

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Ambrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 1

A SELECT LIBRARY

… St. Ambrose sends a deputation of clerics to St. Basil to ask for the body of St. Dionysius, late Catholic Bishop of Milan. [St. Basil, Ep. 197.] 375. Death of Valentinian in November. His son …

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Gregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 1

A SELECT LIBRARY

… ex officina Claudii Chevalon, 1523, fol. 11. in opera... 1533, fol. 12. Do. Basil., 1550. 13. Do. cura Huldrici Coccii. Basil., ap. Froben. 1564, fol. 14. Pastoralia; at col. 869, tom. I. of Opera...ed …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 96

Chapter VII.--Of famous leaders of the Arian faction.

… But this absurdity was beyond the endurance of the assembled bishops--admirable men, and full of divine zeal and wisdom, such as Helladius, successor of the great Basil, Gregorius and Peter, brothers of Basil, and …

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Gregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 69

Book V.

… 2. [682] Reading hara tis for ara tis of Oehler's text. [683] That is, by S. Basil: the reference seems to be to the treatise Adv. Eunomium ii. 24 (p. 260 C. in the …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 90

Letter II. [1743]

Letter II. [1743] Basil to Gregory. 1. [I recognised your letter, as one recognises one's friends' children from their obvious likeness to their parents. Your saying that to describe the kind of place I …

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