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 Philippians
- Philippians 2:8
It is apparent that the Lord accepted natural feelings to confirm that his humanity was real and not illusory, but the feelings that come from wickedness, all those that besmirch the purity of our lives, he repudiated as being unworthy of his unsullied Godhead.
LETTER 261
- Philippians 3:20
We drag our body like a shadow along the ground, but we guard our soul as one that shares in the citizenship of heaven.
ON BAPTISM 1.21
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.