Basil the Great, Canonical letters. Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 14 (Percival, 1900), public domain.
Passages · 10
- Canonical letters 1: The First Canonical Epistle of Our Holy Father Basil, Archbishop of Cæsarea in Cappadocia to… — As to the question concerning the Puritans the custom of every country is to be observed, since they who have discussed this point are of various sentiments. The [baptism] of the Pepuzenes I make no account of, and I…vatican.va
- Canonical letters 2: The Second Canonical Epistle of the Same — I made a canon, that they at Antioch, who had sworn not to perform the sacred offices should not do it publicly, but in private only: As to Bianor, he is removed from thence to Iconium, and therefore is more at…vatican.va
- Canonical letters 3: The Third Epistle of the Same to the Same — That one punishment be inflicted on lapsing clergymen, viz.: deposition, whether they be in dignity, or in the ministry which is given without imposition of hands.vatican.va
- Canonical letters 4: From an Epistle of the Same to the Blessed Amphilochius on the Difference of Meats — Against the Encratites, who would not eat flesh.vatican.va
- Canonical letters 5: Of the Same to Diodorus Bishop of Tarsus, concerning a Man who had taken Two Sisters to Wife — Contains the preface of his letter to Diodorus Bishop of Tarsus, in which he tells him of a letter shewed him in justification of a man’s marrying two sisters bearing his name; but he hopes it was forged.vatican.va
- Canonical letters 6: Of the Same to Gregory a Presbyter, that He Should Separate from a Woman who Dwelt with Him — A letter to Gregory, an unmarried priest, charging him to dismiss a woman whom he kept, though he was 70 years of age, and declared himself free from all amorous affections; and St. Basil would seem to believe him in…vatican.va
- Canonical letters 7: Of the Same to the Chorepiscopi, that No Ordinations Should Be Made Contrary to the Canons — A letter to his Village-bishop: he complains of the want of discipline of the multiplying of the clergy, and that without due examination and enquiry into their morals; that they had dropped the old custom, which was…vatican.va
- Canonical letters 8: Of the Same to His Suffragans that They Should Not Ordain for Money — One letter to the bishop subject to him, wherein he prohibits to take money for orders, and to bring merchandize into the church, which is entrusted with the Body, and Blood of Christ; they had their pay after the…vatican.va
- Canonical letters 9: From Chapter XVII. of the Book St. Basil Wrote to Blessed Amphilochius on the Holy Ghost — He speaks of the written doctrine, and the unwritten tradition of the Apostles, and says, that both have the same efficacy as to religion. The unwritten traditions which he mentions, are the signing those who hope in…vatican.va
- Canonical letters 10: From the Letter of Basil the Great to the Nicopolitans — There is also in Tilius and Bishop Beveridge here inserted an epistle of St. Basil the Great to the Nicopolitans, comforting them under the loss of their church or oratory, and telling them, that they ought not to be…vatican.va