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St. Basil's letters to friends, monks, bishops and officials: comfort to the grieving, advice to the young, the fight for Nicaea, and his canonical letters to St. Amphilochius, which became part of Orthodox church law.
Letter 38, on the difference between essence and person, is one of the clearest short things ever written on the Trinity.
Contents
- 1Letters 1–945 min read
- 2Letters 10–2630 min read
- 3Letters 27–3935 min read
- 4Letters 40–4740 min read
- 5Letters 48–6030 min read
- 6Letters 61–7425 min read
- 7Letters 75–9130 min read
- 8Letters 92–10125 min read
- 9Letters 102–12030 min read
- 10Letters 121–13425 min read
- 11Letters 135–15130 min read
- 12Letters 152–16525 min read
- 13Letters 166–18940 min read
- 14Letters 190–19930 min read
- 15Letters 200–20535 min read
- 16Letters 206–21530 min read
- 17Letters 216–22435 min read
- 18Letters 225–23430 min read
- 19Letters 235–24130 min read
- 20Letters 242–24825 min read
- 21Letters 249–26135 min read
- 22Letters 262–26925 min read
- 23Letters 270–29125 min read
- 24Letters 292–34225 min read
- 25Letters 343–35710 min read
About this edition
Translated by Blomfield Jackson, in the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, second series, vol. 8 (1895), edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace.
This translation is in the public domain. We took the text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library and left out the editors’ footnotes.
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