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

Against those who say that the Holy Ghost is not to be numbered with, butnumbered under, the Father and the Son. Wherein moreover there is a summarynotice of the faith concerning right sub-numeration.In what manner in the confession of the three hypostases we preserve the piousdogma of the Monarchia. Wherein also is the refutation of them that allege thatthe Spirit is subnumerated.Against those who assert that the Spirit ought not to be glorified.Against those who maintain that the Spirit is in the rank neither of a servant norof a master, but in that of the free.Proof from Scripture that the Spirit is called Lord.Establishment of the natural communion of the Spirit from His being, equallywith the Father and the Son, unapproachable in thought.The glorifying of the enumeration of His attributes.Proof of the absurdity of the refusal to glorify the Spirit, from the comparison ofthings glorified in creation.That Scripture uses the words “in” or “by,” ἐν, cf. note on p. 3, in place of “with.”Wherein also it is proved that the word “and” has the same force as “with.”That the word “in,” in as many senses as it bears, is understood of the Spirit.Of the origin of the word “with,” and what force it has. Also concerning theunwritten laws of the church.That our opponents refuse to concede in the case of the Spirit the terms whichScripture uses in the case of men, as reigning together with Christ.Enumeration of the illustrious men in the Church who in their writings have usedthe word “with.”Exposition of the present state of the Churches.The Hexæmeron.Introduction.In the Beginning God made the Heaven and the Earth.“The Earth was Invisible and Unfinished.”On the Firmament.Upon the gathering together of the waters.The Germination of the Earth.The creation of luminous bodies.The creation of moving creatures.196199205209211213215217220223229236239246251251253265278291298308323iv