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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 142
… So Gregory Thaumaturgus was honoured at Neocæsarea, and Athanasius and Basil received like distinction soon after their death. [2332] The custom of the reservation of the Sacrament is, as is well known, of great antiquity …
1,308 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 36
… Remember the words which you yourself quoted; Basil did not want the natural thought to be suppressed, and welcome the paradoxical,' as you phrase it; but he advised us to avoid all danger by suppressing …
2,266 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 62
… which is here followed. [607] S. John iii. 10 [608] i.e.S. Basil. [609] The reference is to S. Basil's treatise against Eunomius (ii. 7-8; p. 242-4 in the Benedictine ed …
2,267 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 195
… Macrina, that he went to see her after the Council of Antioch. (This and Basil's death occurred in the year 379: so that this Dialogue was probably composed in 380.) "The interval during which …
2,237 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 126
… Well, my dear sir, do you not yet find the weak seams of your sophism giving way? Do you not perceive that you have slavered upon your own lap? What says our great Basil? That …
2,276 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 85
… gupa de arrena ou phasi gignesthai pote alla theleias hapasas. [1671] This analogy is repeated almost in identical words in Basil's Hom. xxii. De Providentia. cf. also his Com. on Isaiah. St. Ambrose repeats …
2,269 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 95
… A valuable comparison of Gregory and Basil is to be found in Newman's "Church of the Fathers," and last, but not least in value, may be mentioned the long biographical article by Professor Watkins …
2,275 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 200
… If we cannot do this, let us at all events do our best to save our own souls from everlasting damnation. [2826] The third canonical letter, written on Basil's return from Pontus, in 375 …
2,298 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 94
… The consecration of Basil to the see of Cæsarea, late in 370, followed by Ephraim's visit to him there. 5. The deliverance of the Edessenes from the persecution of Valens (370-372), celebrated by …
2,265 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 196
… 21. [2610] Basil, Homil. Quod Deus non sit auct. malorum. [2611] 2 Tim. ii. 20, 21. [2612] Rom. xi. 32. [2613] Is. xxix. 10; Rom. xi. 8. [2614] Amos iii. 6. [2615] Text, disemphaton. Variant …
1,335 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 68
… for many of the clerical body were sent into exile, as we have stated; Basil and Gregory alone, by a special dispensation of Divine Providence, being on account of their eminent piety exempted from this …
2,331 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 157
… S. Basil (Ib.). Cum statuisset se tradere. Coptic S. Basil (Hammond, p. 209) Rot. Vatic. and Cod. Ross. of S. Mark, has only t. n. he heaut, pared. (Swainson, 50); so too S. Basil (Ib …
2,311 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 133
… Gregory of Nyssa, for his faith, his conversation, his integrity, and his wisdom, most worthy to be the brother of Basil. And lest Greece or the East should seem to stand alone, to prove that …
1,344 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 113
… rights over the churches of Cappadocia Secunda, in opposition to S. Basil, who had hitherto been metropolitan of the undivided province. S. Basil, with the intention of vindicating the permanence of his former rights, created …
2,352 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 181
… After these and similar actions--why need I stay to mention them all?--when the prelate whose name [4473] betokened his godliness had passed away, having sweetly breathed his last in Basil's arms, he …
2,366 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 212
… 6 fin. Vid. de Syn. 45, n. 1. and Didymus he patrike theotes. p. 82. and S. Basil, ex hou echei to einai. contr. Eunom. ii. 12 fin. Just above Athan. says that the Son …
2,389 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 6
… This feeling had something to do with the great reaction, which was inaugurated by Basil I., against their legal reforms. The Christian Code of Leo prevailed in the empire for less than a century and …
2,372 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 129
… 3381] In his Fifty-third Epistle, addressed to S. Basil, there is an amusing instance of his defence of this tolerant disposition, which S. Basil also displayed in dealing with minds of this class. Oration …
2,390 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 2
… We learn from a letter of Basil the Great that he had visited Jerusalem about the year 357, when he had been recently baptized, and was preparing to adopt a life of strict asceticism. He …
2,431 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 19
… for Basil displayed the highest courage before the Emperor and his Lord-Lieutenants. He treats our words so; and in the rest of his presumptuous statements can there be shown to be a particle of …
2,446 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 184
… Others have had their cooks, and splendid tables, and the devices and dainties of confectioners, and exquisite carriages, and soft, flowing robes; Basil's care was for the sick, and the relief of their wounds …
2,424 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 25
… 5 with much less likelihood puts this down to Basil. [78] The discussions, reported with every appearance of substantial accuracy by Thdt. ii. 27, may have taken place at this time, or at the council …
2,420 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 7
… We cannot doubt that he made use of its very words, for Hilary was not the man to retreat from the position he held, and the terms of his alliance with the school of Basil …
2,443 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 214
… Resistance of Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, and Apolinarius to this Decree. They rapidly translate the Scripture into Greek Modes of Expression. Apolinarius and Gregory Nazianzen do this more than Basil, the one in …
2,460 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 173
… It is implied also in the Apology of the former, §24, and in Basil. contr. Eunom. ii. 28. Aetius was in Alexandria with George of Cappadocia, a.d. 356-8, and Athan. wrote these Discourses …
2,472 wordsChrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 134
… first, patriachs, prophets, apostles, martyrs, that at their prayers and intervention God would receive our petition." St. Basil, Hom. on the Forty Martyrs, c. 8, t. 2, p. 155, speaks strongly of the value of …
1,418 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 133
… dignitary of Cappadocia otherwise unknown, whom Basil asks to intercede with the Emperor Valens to prevent that division of Cappadocia which afterward led to so much trouble. Basil had left Cæsarea in the autumn of …
1,459 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 14
… II. (Basil the Great, p. 18, note.) The "Canonical Epistles" of St. Basil are not private letters, but canons of the churches with which he was nearest related. When there was no art of printing …
2,544 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 154
… the treatise of Anastas. II. Antiochen., on the Hexaëmeron, bk. vii. [1774] 'Edem, Edem, in the text. Basil, Hom. de Parad. [1775] See 2 Kings xix. 12; Isai. xxxvii. 12; Ezek. xxvii. 23. [1776] See …
1,497 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 177
… Who has not known Basil, our archbishop's father, a great name to everyone, who attained a father's prayer, if anyone, I will not say as no one, ever did? For he surpassed all …
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