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Basil was criticised for giving glory to the Father “with the Son, together with the Holy Spirit.” His answer became the Church's great defence of the divinity of the Holy Spirit.
It is also where he writes that the honour paid to an image passes on to its prototype.
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Translated by Blomfield Jackson, in the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, second series, vol. 8 (1895).
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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