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As a priest and then bishop, St. Basil the Great devoted sophisticated treatises to the Trinity and to articulating his vision of the Christian life. In his homilies, Basil distilled the best of his moral and theological teachings into forms readily accessible to his flock, and now to us. During his lifetime, Basil was recognized as one of the foremost rhetoricians of his day—a man supremely...

revision.10 Therefore, this homily cannot be dated more precisely than to the entire span of Basil’s ecclesiastical ministry, 362–378. . The following translation is based on Julien Garnier’s edition as reprinted in De Sinner ii.220–228 (= PG 31.526–539).11 In crafting my translation, I benefited from Garnier’s Latin translation and Sister M. Monica Wagner’s English translation of the homily in the Fathers of the Church series,12 as well as from the excerpt translated into English by Blomfield

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