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NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works - Holy Bible Institute

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Issue joined with those who assert that the Son is not with the Father, but after the Father.Also concerning the equal glory.throne, from his condition of equality, to a lower state? 815 St<strong>and</strong>ing <strong>and</strong> sitting, I apprehend,indicate the fixity <strong>and</strong> entire stability of the nature, as Baruch, when he wishes to exhibitthe immutability <strong>and</strong> immobility of the Divine mode of existence, says, “For thou sittest forever <strong>and</strong> we perish utterly.” 816 Moreover, the place on the right h<strong>and</strong> indicates in myjudgment equality of honour. Rash, then, is the attempt to deprive the Son of participationin the doxology, as though worthy only to be ranked in a lower place of honour.815 Mr. Johnston well points out that these five testimonies are not cited fortuitously, but “in an order whichcarries the reader from the future second coming, through the present session at the right h<strong>and</strong>, back to the ascensionin the past.”816 Baruch iii. 3, lxx.159

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