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

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A transcript of the faith as dictated by Saint <strong>Basil</strong>, <strong>and</strong> subscribed by Eustathius, bishop ofSebasteia.this term they degrade Him to the rank of a creature. For that the ministering spirits arecreatures we are told by Scripture in the words “they are all ministering spirits sent forth tominister.” 2416 But because of men who make universal confusion, <strong>and</strong> do not keep thedoctrine of the Gospels, it is necessary to add yet this further, that they are to be shunned,as plainly hostile to true religion, who invert the order left us by the Lord, <strong>and</strong> put the Sonbefore the Father, <strong>and</strong> the <strong>Holy</strong> Spirit before the Son. For we must keep unaltered <strong>and</strong> inviolablethat order which we have received from the very words of the Lord, “Go ye therefore<strong>and</strong> teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father <strong>and</strong> of the Son, <strong>and</strong> of the<strong>Holy</strong> Ghost.” 2417I, Eustathius, bishop, have read to thee, <strong>Basil</strong>, <strong>and</strong> understood; <strong>and</strong> I assent to what iswritten above. I have signed in the presence of our Fronto, Severus, the chorepiscopus, <strong>and</strong>several other clerics.196new party arose in the Delta about 362, <strong>and</strong> was first known as “Tropici.” They were condemned at the synodheld at Alex<strong>and</strong>ria on the return of Athanasius from his third exile. Its Synodical Letter is the Tomus ad Antiochenos.2416 Heb. i. 14.2417 Matt. xxviii. 14.567

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