Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series, Volume VIII
Overview
This edition of Phillip Schaff’s Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers includes works Basil of Caesarea.
Product Details
- Title: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series, Volume VIII
- Author: Phillip Schaff
- Publisher: Christian Literature Company
- Publication Date: 1888
Top Highlights
“If then in baptism the separation of the Spirit from the Father and the Son is perilous to the baptizer, and of no advantage to the baptized, how can the rending asunder of the Spirit from Father and from Son be safe for us?18 Faith and baptism are two kindred and inseparable ways of salvation: faith is perfected through baptism, baptism is established through faith, and both are completed by the same names. For as we believe in the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost, so are we also baptized in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost: first comes the confession, introducing us to salvation, and baptism follows, setting the seal upon our assent.” (Page 18)
“And in the creation bethink thee first, I pray thee, of the original cause of all things that are made, the Father; of the creative cause, the Son; of the perfecting cause, the Spirit; so that the ministering spirits subsist by the will of the Father, are brought into being by the operation of the Son, and perfected by the presence of the Spirit.” (Page 23)
“It must now be pointed out that the phrase ‘through whom’ is admitted by Scripture in the case of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost alike.” (Page 7)
“It is an extraordinary statement, but it is none the less true, that the Spirit is frequently spoken of as the place of them that are being sanctified, and it will become evident that even by this figure the Spirit, so far from being degraded, is rather glorified.” (Page 39)
“It is these careful distinctions, derived from unpractical philosophy and vain delusion,9 which our opponents have first studied and admired, and then transferred to the simple and unsophisticated doctrine of the Spirit, to the belittling of God the Word, and the setting at naught of the Divine Spirit. Even the phrase set apart by non-Christian writers for the case of lifeless instruments10 or of manual service of the meanest kind, I mean the expression ‘through or by means of which,’ they do not shrink from transferring to the Lord of all, and Christians feel no shame in applying to the Creator of the universe language belonging to a hammer or a saw.” (Pages 4–5)
- Title: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 2.8: St. Basil: Letters and Select Works
- Authors: Philip Schaff, Henry Wace, Basil of Caesarea
- Series: Early Church Fathers (Protestant Edition)
- Volume: 8
- Publisher: Christian Literature Company
- Print Publication Date: 1895
- Logos Release Date: 2001
- Era: era:nicene
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Christian literature, early; Fathers of the church
- Resource ID: LLS:6.60.22
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-11T16:49:35Z