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

Against those who assert that it is not proper for “with whom” to be said of the Son, andthat the proper phrase is “through whom.”What our fathers said, the same say we, that the glory of the Father and of the Son iscommon; wherefore we offer the doxology to the Father with the Son. But we do not restonly on the fact that such is the tradition of the Fathers; for they too followed the sense ofScripture, and started from the evidence which, a few sentences back, I deduced fromScripture 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 theFather; nor does even the close connexion of the names, much less the nature of the things,admit of separation.11the Moscow ms. (μ) ἐντεθραμμένων, “trained in,” “nurtured in,” is per se much more probable. The idea of thecountry folk preserving the good old traditions shews the change of circumstances in St. Basil’s day from thoseof the 2d c., when the “pagani” or villagers were mostly still heathen, and the last to adopt the novelty of Christianity.cf. Pliny’s Letter to Trajan (Ep. 96), “neque civitates tantum sed vicos etiam atque agros superstitionis istiuscontagio 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. 4.161