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On the Holy Spirit
St Basil the Great, NPNF II.8
- Prefatory remarks on the need of exact investigation of the most minute portions of…
- The origin of the heretics’ close observation all syllables.
- The systematic discussion of syllables is derived from heathen philosophy.
- That there is no distinction in the scriptural use of these syllables.
- That “through whom” is said also in the case of the Father, and “of whom” in the case of…
- Issue joined with those who assert that the Son is not with the Father, but after the…
- Against those who assert that it is not proper for “with whom” to be said of the Son, and…
- In how many ways “Through whom” is used; and in what sense “with whom” is more suitable.
- Definitive conceptions about the Spirit which conform to the teaching of the Scriptures.
- Against those who say that it is not right to rank the Holy Spirit with the Father and…
- 11. That they who deny the Spirit are transgressors.
- Against those who assert that the baptism in the name of the Father alone is sufficient.
- Statement of the reason why in the writings of Paul the angels are associated with the…
- Objection that some were baptized unto Moses and believed in him, and an answer to it;…
- Reply to the suggested objection that we are baptized “into water.” Also concerning…
- That the Holy Spirit is in every conception separable from the Father and the Son, alike…
- Against those who say that the Holy Ghost is not to be numbered with, but numbered under,…
- In what manner in the confession of the three hypostases we preserve the pious dogma of…
- Against those who assert that the Spirit ought not to be glorified.
- Against those who maintain that the Spirit is in the rank neither of a servant nor of a…
- 21. Proof from Scripture that the Spirit is called Lord.
- Establishment of the natural communion of the Spirit from His being, equally with the…
- 23. The glorifying of the enumeration of His attributes.
- Proof of the absurdity of the refusal to glorify the Spirit, from the comparison of…
- 25. That Scripture uses the words “in” or “by,” e0n, cf.
- That the word “in,” in as many senses as it bears, is understood of the Spirit.
- 27. Of the origin of the word “with,” and what force it has.
- That our opponents refuse to concede in the case of the Spirit the terms which Scripture…
- Enumeration of the illustrious men in the Church who in their writings have used the word…
- 30. Exposition of the present state of the Churches.