the Holy Trinity
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Letters (Greek)
For from the Father is the Son, through whom are all things, with whom the Holy Spirit is always inseparably conceived.
in the texts
Barlaam and Josaphat
The doctrine of one God existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
but I know and confess one God, glorified in three persons — the Father, I mean, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit — yet in one nature and essence, in one glory and kingdom undivided.
to come near to the contemplation of the holy and life-giving Trinity, and to be illumined by its unapproachable light,
For thus do we, illumined by light from the Father, the Son, light in the light of the Holy Spirit, glorify one Godhead in three persons;
Letters
The doctrine of the Trinity, named explicitly as the subject of Basil's exposition.
And about the adorable and holy Trinity let so much be said by us for the present;
and sometimes the wax-moulded instrument of the wise bee, and through it hints at natural contemplation, in which the account of the holy Trinity too is mingled, since from the beauty of creatures the Author of their being is contemplated by analogy.
For to be counted worthy to meet a man who thinks the same things and holds the faith of the fathers — as the report of our honoured brothers and fellow-presbyters has it — is truly to return to the ancient blessedness of the churches, when those who were diseased about questionings were few, and all were in tranquillity, being workers of the commandments who need not be ashamed, serving the Lord …