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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...

that we can. In a similar fashion, let us now fulfill the demands of piety with words inadequate to the task, but let us concede victory to the majesty of the true nature over against all speech. For not even the tongues of angels (however many there are), nor those of archangels, gathered together with every rational nature, are able to reach its smallest part, much less to make themselves equal to the whole of it. Now if you want to say or hear something about God, break free from your body, break
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