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Basil of Caesarea

4th century · AD 379 · Eastern & Byzantine · 715 passages

Bishop, monastic founder, and preacher on creation; he built hospitals and taught that care for the poor is inseparable from faith.

Background on Basil of Caesarea

In his own words on 1 John

  • 1 John 4:16

    If God is love, as John says, then it must be that the devil is hatred. As he who has love has God, so he who has hatred has the devil dwelling in him.

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Quoted verbatim from public-domain English translations of the fathers — Aquinas's Catena Aurea, the Ante-Nicene and Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers, and related editions. Each quotation links to its source.