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On the Holy Spirit

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On the Holy Spirit

The treatise De Spiritu Sancto, complete in thirty chapters

By St. Basil the Great

3 h 9 min · Age of the Councils · Greek and Byzantine

The foundational defence of the Spirit's divinity, written for Amphilochius of Iconium: that the Spirit is worshipped and glorified together with the Father and the Son, and that the Church's unwritten tradition guards this faith.

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Source: St. Basil the Great, On the Holy Spirit (De Spiritu Sancto), translated by the Rev. Blomfield Jackson. From the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Vol. 8 (ed. Philip Schaff and Henry Wace). Public domain.