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II. Works

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The extant works of St. Basil may be conveniently classified as follows:

I. Dogmatic.

(i) Adversus Eunomium. Pros Eunomion.

(ii) De Spiritu Sancto. Peri tou Pneumatos.

II. Exegetic.302

(i) In Hexæmeron. Eis ten Exaemeron.

(ii) Homiliæ on , vii., xiv., xxviii., xxix., xxxii., xxxiii., xliv., xlv., xlviii., lix., lxi., cxiv.

(iii) Commentary on Isaiah i.-xvi.

III. Ascetic.

(i) Tractatus prævii.

(ii.) Prooemium de Judicio Dei and De Fide.

(iii) Moralia. Ta 'Ethika.

(iv) Regulæ fusius tractatæ. Oroi kata platos.

(v) Regulæ brevius tractatæ. Oroi kat' epitomen.

IV. Homiletic. XXIV. Homilies.

(i) Dogmatic.

(ii) Moral.

(iii) Panegyric.

V. Letters.

(i) Historic.

(ii) Dogmatic.

(iii) Moral.

(iv) Disciplinary.

(v) Consolatory.

(vi) Commendatory.

(vii) Familiar.

VI. Liturgic.

Notes

  1. 302

    According to Cassiodorus (Instit. Divin. Litt. Præfat.) St. Basil wrote in interpretation of the whole of Scripture, but this statement lacks confirmation. cf. Maran, Vit. Bas. xli.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Volume 8, ed. Philip Schaff and Henry Wace (1890–1900). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.