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In his funeral oration for St. Basil, St. Gregory of Nazianzus calls him a “standard of virtue,” a “noble champion of the truth,” and a “second Joseph” for feeding the hungry in a time of famine. The centuries-long dissemination and study of Basil’s works has only confirmed Gregory’s appraisal of Basil’s great personal holiness, his profound insight into the eloquent defense of the Christian...

this topic, or the tangent would be many times longer than the main subject. 15, 34 What else, then, do they have to say? They have an abundance of refutations. We are baptized, they say, also into water, and we assuredly do not honor water before the whole of creation, and we do not give it a share in the honor of the Father and the Son. Their arguments are the sort which angry men
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