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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 2 John

  • 2 John 1:11

    It is obvious that those who make friends of people who speak falsely aboutout God and who even eat with them do not love the Lord who made them and who feeds them. Instead of being content with that food they are led away into blasphemy against the one who feeds them.

    CATENA

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.