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Hilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 140

Chapter VII.--Concerning the Holy Spirit, a reasoned proof.

… 634, 640; Basil, Contra Eunom., B.V., and De Spiritu Sancto, ch. 18; Greg. Scholar., Contra Latin., de process. Spiritus Sancti, i. 4, where we have the statement houto kai to hagion Pneuma hosper horme …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 115

Letter XLV. [2102]

… xii., regards this implied sojourn at Jerusalem as unfavourable to the genuineness of the letter; but supposing the letter to be genuine, and grounds to exist for doubting Basil to have spent any long time …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 223

Letter CCXLV. [3081]

… no leisure for these matters. [3086] [3085] Placed in 376. [3086] It is rare to find in Basil's letters even so slight an allusion as this to the general affairs of the empire. At …

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Gregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 76

[786] Heb. iv. 15.

… God that the blessed Peter speaks, but of Him Who was seen,' and Who emptied Himself,' as Basil says, and if the man Who was seen' emptied Himself' to take the form of a servant …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 259

Canon XIX.

… And hence the first step of those so received being unlawful, the whole proceeding is rendered null, as says Basil the Great. For it is not possible that God should be served by means of …

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Hilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 147

Chapter XIV.--The properties of the divine nature.

… 35, 38, 42. [1645] Basil, De Struct., hom. 2; Greg. Naz., Orat. 44. [1646] Greg. Naz., Orat. 44. [1647] ai& 240;nios, eternal,' but also secular,' aeonian,' age-long.' [1648] Variant, kai aperanton deloi. In …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 220

Letter CCXLIII. [3036]

… To his brethren truly God-beloved and very dear, and fellow ministers of like mind, the bishops of Gaul and Italy, Basil, bishop of Cæsarea in Cappadocia. Our Lord Jesus Christ, Who has deigned to …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 161

Canon XXXI.

… For also James, the brother, according to the flesh, of Christ our God, to whom the throne of the church of Jerusalem first was entrusted, and Basil, the Archbishop of the Church of Cæsarea, whose …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 39

Chapter IX.

… xxx. § 14, "Till by the power of the incarnation he make me God." In Basil adv. Eunom. ii. 4. we have, "They who are perfect in virtue are deemed worthy of the title of God …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 52

Chapter XXII.

… katar& 191;aktes in the text of Basil and the lxx. may be assumed to mean prison, from the notion of the barred grating over the door. cf. Ducange s.v. cataracta. [1184] Ez. i …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 135

Letter LXXVIII. [2273]

… On Eustathius to Basil a type at once of the unwashable Ethiopian for persistent heresy (Letter cxxx. 1) and of the wind-driven cloud for shiftiness and time-serving, (Letter ccxliv. 9.) Vide proleg. Letter …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 46

Chapter XVII.

… 1039] John xv. 26. [1040] ton stereounta to pneuma. It is to be noticed here that St. Basil uses the masculine and more personal form in apposition with the neuter pneuma, and not the neuter …

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Socrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 266

Chapter II.--Discovery of the Relics of Forty Holy Martyrs.

… under March 10, where the names acts, orations of Basil, and Soz.'s story of the invention are given. Basil, Oratio in laudem ss. Quadraginta Martyrum, vii. 749.

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 158

Letter CXXX. [2430]

… 5 and 4. [2435] There is no other mention in Basil's letters of Eustathius being guilty of re-ordination. The Ben. note, however, states that Basil is not accurate in saying that there was …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 33

Chapter IV.

… Similarly Basil uses hule. As a technical philosophic term for abstract matter, it is first used by Aristotle. [726] 1 Cor. viii. 6. [727] 1 Cor. xi. 12. [728] Ex. xxv. 10, LXX. A.V …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 161

"In fit bounds contain thy mighty mind;

… There seems nothing to indicate whether this Basil is Basil of Seleucia or Basil of Trajanopolis, both of whom were present at the Latrocinium and took part against Theodoret. Garnerius refers it to the former …

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