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St. Basil was a towering figure in the fourth-century Church. In the midst of great controversy, he led the charge of those faithful to the doctrine proclaimed at Nicaea. For the bishop of Caesarea, the array of false teachings that plagued the Church was not merely a matter of conflicting opinions or interpretations. It was rather a result of the moral failure of so-called leaders of the Church...

account of the truth I observed in the divine Scriptures. After a long time of suffering so and investigating thoroughly the cause I was after, I was reminded of what is recorded in the book of Judges: that each did what was right in his own eyes, which it explains by saying, “In those days there was no king in Israel.”3 And thinking on this, I concluded that the same must be true of the present (which is perhaps dreadful and astonishing to say but most evident to perceive), that perhaps the great
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