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

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The creation of terrestrial animals.If God permits, we will say later in what way man was created in the image of God, <strong>and</strong>how he shares this resemblance. Today we say but only one word. If there is one image,from whence comes the intolerable blasphemy of pretending that the Son is unlike theFather? What ingratitude! You have yourself received this likeness <strong>and</strong> you refuse it toyour Benefactor! You pretend to keep personally that which is in you a gift of grace, <strong>and</strong>you do not wish that the Son should keep His natural likeness to Him who begat Him.But evening, which long ago sent the sun to the west, imposes silence upon me. Here,then, let me be content with what I have said, <strong>and</strong> put my discourse to bed. I have told youenough up to this point to excite your zeal; with the help of the <strong>Holy</strong> Spirit I will make foryou a deeper investigation into the truths which follow. Retire, then, I beg you, with joy, OChrist-loving congregation, <strong>and</strong>, instead of sumptuous dishes of various delicacies, adorn<strong>and</strong> sanctify your tables with the remembrance of my words. May the Anomœan be confounded,the Jew covered with shame, the faithful exultant in the dogmas of truth, <strong>and</strong> theLord glorified, the Lord to Whom be glory <strong>and</strong> power, world without end. Amen.355

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