Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series • VOLUME 8
Basil — Letters and Select Works
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Letter CCLXXXV. [3244]
Letter CCLXXXV. [3244] Without Address. The hearer of this letter is one on whom rests the care of our Church and the management of its property--our beloved son. Deign to grant him freedom of speech on those points that are referred to your holiness, and attention to the expression of his own views; so shall our Church at le…
758 wordsSECTION 242Letter CCLXXXIX. [3251]
Letter CCLXXXIX. [3251] Without address. Concerning an afflicted woman. I consider it an equal mistake, to let the guilty go unpunished, and to exceed the proper limits of punishment. I accordingly passed upon this man the sentence I considered it incumbent on me to pass--excommunication from the Church. The sufferer I exhorte…
1,217 wordsSECTION 243Letter CCXCI. [3255]
Letter CCXCI. [3255] To Timotheus the Chorepiscopus. [3256] The due limits of a letter, and that mode of addressing you, render it inconvenient for me to write all I think; at the same time to pass over my thoughts in silence, when my heart is burning with righteous indignation against you, is well-nigh impossible. I will adop…
820 wordsSECTION 244Letter CCXCIII.
Letter CCXCIII. To Julianus. How fare you this long while? Have you altogether recovered the use of your hand? And how do other things prosper? According to your wishes and my prayers? In accordance with your purposes? Where men are readily disposed to change, it is only natural that their lives are not well ordered: but wher…
946 wordsSECTION 245Letter CCXCVI.
Letter CCXCVI. To a widow. [A short letter in which Basil excuses himself for making use of the widow's mules.] Letter CCXCVII. To a widow. [A short letter of introduction.] Letter CCXCVIII. Without address. [A short letter of commendation.] Letter CCXCIX. To a Censitor. [3259] I was aware, before you told me, that yo…
930 wordsSECTION 246Letter CCCVII.
Letter CCCVII. Without address. [A request to mediate between two litigants.] Letter CCCVIII. Without address. [Commendatory, with the mention of a place called Capralis.] Letter CCCIX. Without address. [Commendatory on behalf of a man reduced from wealth to poverty, with three children, and anxious about his rating.] L…
876 wordsSECTION 247Letter CCCXXXVI.
Letter CCCXXXVI. Libanius to Basilius. 1. After some little time a young Cappadocian has reached me. One gain to me is that he is a Cappadocian. But this Cappadocian is one of the first rank. This is another gain. Further, he brings me a letter from the admirable Basil. This is the greatest gain of all. You think that I have f…
826 wordsSECTION 248Letter CCCXXXVIII.
Letter CCCXXXVIII. Libanius to Basil. I know you will often write, "Here is another Cappadocian for you!" I expect that you will send me many. I am sure that you are everywhere putting pressure on both fathers and sons by all your complimentary expressions about me. But it would not be kind on my part not to mention what happe…
838 wordsSECTION 249Letter CCCXL.
Letter CCCXL. Libanius to Basil. Had you been for a long time considering how best you could reply to my letter about yours, you could not in my judgment have acquitted yourself better than by writing as you have written now. You call me a sophist, and you allege that it is a sophist's business to make small things great and g…
712 wordsSECTION 250Letter CCCXLIV.
Letter CCCXLIV. Basil to Libanius. I am dissuaded from writing often to you, learned as you are, by my timidity and my ignorance. But your persistent silence is different. What excuse can be offered for it? If any one takes into account that you are slow to write to me, living as you do in the midst of letters, he will condemn…
724 wordsSECTION 251Letter CCCXLVII.
Letter CCCXLVII. Libanius to Basil. Every bishop is a thing out of which it is very hard to get anything. [3279] The further you have advanced beyond other people in learning, the more you make me afraid that you will refuse what I ask. I want some rafters. [3280] Any other sophist would have called them stakes, or poles, not …
730 wordsSECTION 252Letter CCCLII.
Letter CCCLII. Libanius to Basil. Behold! I have sent you my speech, all streaming with sweat as I am! How should I be otherwise, when sending my speech to one who by his skill in oratory is able to shew that the wisdom of Plato and the ability of Demosthenes were belauded in vain? I feel like a gnat compared with an elephant.…
708 wordsSECTION 253Letter CCCLX. [3289]
Letter CCCLX. [3289] Of the Holy Trinity, the Incarnation, the invocation of Saints, and their Images. According to the blameless faith of the Christians which we have obtained from God, I confess and agree that I believe in one God the Father Almighty; God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Ghost; I adore and worship one G…
2,258 wordsSECTION 2541 Corinthians
1 Corinthians [1054]1:5 [1055]1:9 [1056]1:20 [1057]1:21 [1058]1:21 [1059]1:24 [1060]1:24 [1061]1:24 [1062]1:24 [1063]1:24 [1064]1:24 [1065]1:24 [1066]1:27-28 [1067]1:30 [1068]1:30 [1069]1:30-31 [1070]2:4 [1071]2:4 [1072]2:6 [1073]2:6 [1074]2:6 [1075]2:7 [1076]2:7 [1077]2:8 [1078]2:10 [1079]2:10 [1080]2:10 [1081]2:10-11 [1082]2:…
7,011 wordsSECTION 255Index of German Words and Phrases
Index of German Words and Phrases * : [2657]1 [2658]2 [2659]3 * desselben, so sagte er, da auch ihm Christus eine Person (nämlich als Mensch) sey, so habe auch sein Glaube mehrere: [2660]1 * "Wurde seiner Lehre: Gott sey mit dem Logos zugleich Eine Person: [2661]1 * 45, eine menschliche Person nach Paul in die Trinität einlasse…
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