Nicene and Post-Nicene Church Fathers Series 2 - The Still Small ...

What our fathers said, the same say we, that the glory of the Father and of the Son is
common; wherefore we offer the doxology to the Father with the Son. But we do not rest
only on the fact that such is the tradition of the Fathers; for they too followed the sense of
Scripture, and started from the evidence which, a few sentences back, I deduced from
Scripture and laid before you. For “the brightness” is always thought of with “the glory,” 825
“the image” with the archetype, 826 and the Son always and everywhere together with the
Father; nor does even the close connexion of the names, much less the nature of the things,
admit of separation.
the Moscow ms. (μ) ἐντεθραμμένων, “trained in,” “nurtured in,” is per se much more probable. The idea of the
country folk preserving the good old traditions shews the change of circumstances in St. Basil’s day from those
of the 2d c., when the “pagani” or villagers were mostly still heathen, and the last to adopt the novelty of Chris-
tianity. cf. Pliny’s Letter to Trajan (Ep. 96), “neque civitates tantum sed vicos etiam atque agros superstitionis is-
tius contagio pervagata est.”
825 Heb. i. 1. cf. Aug. Ep. ii. ad Serap.: “The Father is Light, and the Son brightness and true light.”
826 2 Cor. iv. 4.
Against those who assert that it is not proper for “with whom” to be said…
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