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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 167

Chapter XVII.

… but only indicated by a sign (cc. xxxi., xxxiii.), while in the shorter Monastic Rules of S. Basil the custom of reading at meals is distinctly alluded to (Q. clxxx.). It is of course also …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 32

Chapter III.

… The six causes of Basil may be referred to the four of Aristotle as follows: Aristotle. 1. to ti en einai 2. to ex hou ginetai ti 3. he arche tes metaboles he prote 4 …

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Hilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 188

Chapter X.--Concerning Faith.

… 6. [2346] Basil. in Ps. cxv. [2347] Basil, cit. loc. [2348] Text, propatoros hamartia. Variant, propat. 'Adam hamart. [2349] Text, enoichthesan. Variant, enoigesan. [2350] Cyril, Hier. catech. i. 14. [2351] Text, dia staurou. Variant, di …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 71

[1458] Ps. cxix. 103.

… 295, 299) considers them fabulous. [1493] A varia lectio is Eridanus. [1494] Aigon is properly the Ægean Sea. [1495] Basil's geography is bad. He might have improved it by consulting Strabo or Ptolemæus, but …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 42

Canon IV.

… For the consent alone is worthy of punishment. And this is plain from canon lxx. of St. Basil, which says; "A deacon polluted in lips (en cheilesi)" or who has approached to the kiss of …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 159

I and my household salute all thy brotherhood in piety in Christ.

… also addressed to bishop Basil to identify the recipient. Basil bishop of Seleucia in Isauria was at the Latrocinium and at Chalcedon. Basil, bishop of Trajanopolis was also present at the same councils. Garnerius is …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 56

Chapter XXVII.

… this argument to about one hundred years from the date of St. Basil's writing. The peculiar care taken by St. Basil for the writing out of the treatise, and for its safe arrival in …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 76

[1977] Ps. cxl. 3.

… Sikuelaton is explained by Basil in his comment on the passage of Isaiah as "A place that produces quick-growing and perishable fruits." This agrees with the etymological sense of the word as "a forcing …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 187

[4453] Jer. i. 18.

… Demosthenes, a creature of Valens, sent to persuade Basil to yield to the Emperor. [4493] Prefect. Modestus. [4494] 1 Sam. xix. 20. [4495] Exod. xii. 29. [4496] 2 Sam. xii. 16. [4497] 1 Kings xi …

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Hilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 197

Chapter XX.--That there are not two Kingdoms.

… Variant, kakoucheisthai. [2625] Basil, Hom. Deum non esse caus. mal. [2626] Text, paradrome. Variant, para. rope, cf. infra. [2627] Gen. i. 31. [2628] Basil, Hom. Deum non esse caus. mal. Chapter XXI.--The purpose [2629 …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 41

Canon II.

… times digamists were condemned to one year's penance, and trigamists from two to five years. St. Basil places the trigamists for three years among the "hearers," and then for some time among the consistentes …

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Gregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 34

[189] 1 Cor. xii. 3.

[189] 1 Cor. xii. 3. [190] enoesamen: aorist of instantaneous action. §37. Defence of S. Basil's statement, attacked by Eunomius, that the terms Father' and The Ungenerate' can have the same meaning. The stream …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 136

Letter LXXXII. [2281]

… At the eastern extremity of the island of Pharos still stood the marble lighthouse erected more than 600 years before by Ptolemy II., and not destroyed till after the thirteenth century. [2283] On Basil's …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 173

Letter CLXV. [2551]

… We have seen in letter 255 that Basil requested his relative Julius Soranus to send him some relics of the Gothic martyrs. This letter appears to refer to his prompt compliance with the request by …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 197

Letter CCXI. [2798]

… crowns of patience in the life to come. [2800] Placed in 375. [2801] An old schoolfellow of Basil's, of whom nothing seems to be known but what is gathered from this letter. [2802] i …

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Socrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 273

GENERAL INDEXES.

… Acacius, bishop of Cæsarea, [11]37; helps eject Maximus, [12]65; composes a creed, [13]68, [14]69; deposed, [15]70; becomes head of sect (see Acacians), [16]72; with Eudoxius deposes Macedonius, Eleusius, Basil

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 105

Letter XXVII. [1991]

… Eusebius, the friend of Basil, Gregory of Nazianzus, and of Meletius, was bishop of Samosata (in Commagene on the Euphrates, now Samsat) from 360 to 373, and was of high character and sound opinions. Theodoret …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 155

Chapter XVII.

… his companion and pupil Hesycas and Epiphanius, afterwards Bishop of Salamis in Cyprus. In Asia Minor S. Basil was the greater organizer of monasticism, though, as he tells us, there were already many monks, not …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 154

Letter CXX. [2397]

… I think such irregularity will distress many. [2397] Placed in 373. [2398] Basil keeps up his support of the claims of Meletius, now in exile in Armenia, to be recognised as Catholic bishop of Antioch …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 164

Chapter XXVII.--The Works of Others that flourished at that Time.

… The same fragment of Maximus' work is found also in the twenty-fourth chapter of the Philocalia of Origen, and is said by the editors, Gregory and Basil, to have been copied by them from …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 198

Letter CCXIII. [2804]

… cf. Letters xcix. and cv. [2811] On the divisions of Antioch, cf. Theod., H.E. iii. 2. Basil was no doubt taking the wise course in supporting Meletius, whose personal orthodoxy was unimpeachable. But the …

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