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

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<strong>Basil</strong> to Urbicius the monk, concerning continency.corrupted in Him, since He had no corruption. If only there be a little continency in us, weare higher than all. We have been told that angels were ejected from heaven because ofconcupiscence <strong>and</strong> became incontinent. They were vanquished; they did not come down.What could that plague have effected there, if an eye such as I am thinking of had beenthere? Wherefore I said, If we have a little patience, <strong>and</strong> do not love the world, but the lifeabove, we shall be found there where we direct our mind. For it is the mind, apparently,which is the eye that seeth unseen things. For we say “the mind sees;” “the mind hears.” Ihave written at length, though it may seem little to you. But there is meaning in all that Ihave said, <strong>and</strong>, when you have read it, you will see it.ἐπὶ Χριστοῦ ἐκέκτητο καὶ κένωσιν. Erat enim hæc quoque una ex objectionibus hæreticorum. Definit autem,corpus Christi hac in re fuisse cæteris superius, sicuti etiam in insolita nativitate. Utitur quoque Athanasius exemplotrinitatis illius apud Abrahamum convivantis, neque tamen naturali necessitati obtemperantis; quod item deChristo post resurrectionem edente intelligendum dicit.930

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