{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/208/2080027.htm","path":"chr/ecf/208/2080027.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/208/2080027.htm","text":"IX.\u2014Additional Notes on Some Points in St. Basil\u2019s Doctrinal and Ecclesiastical Position.\nIt has been claimed with reason that the doctrinal standpoint of St. Basil is identical with that of the English Church, with the one exception of the veneration of relics and the invocation of saints. 702\nIn confirmation of this view, the following points may be noted:\n1. The Holy Eucharist. The remarkable passage on the spiritual manducation of the elements in Letter VIII. is commented on on p. 118. His custom as to frequent communion and his opinion as to the reserved sacrament are remarked on on p. 179.\nA significant passage is to be found in the Moralia, Rule XXI., that participation in the Body and Blood of Christ is necessary to eternal life. John vi. 54, is then quoted. That no benefit is derived by him who comes to communion without consideration of the method whereby participation of the Body and Blood of Christ is given; and that he who receives unworthily is condemned. On this John 6:54, 62, 1 Cor. 13:27, are quoted. By what method (\u03c0\u03bf\u03af& 251\u00b7 \u03bb\u03cc\u03b3\u1ff3) we must eat the Body and drink the Blood of the Lord, in remembrance of the Lord\u2019s obedience unto death, that they who live may no longer live unto themselves, but to Him who died and rose again for them. In answer, the quotations are Luke 22:29, 1 Cor. 11:23, 2 Cor. 5:14, 1 Cor. 10:16.\n2. Mariolatry. Even Letter CCCLX., which bears obvious marks of spuriousness, and of proceeding from a later age, does not go beyond a recognition of the Blessed Virgin as \u0398\u03b5\u03bf\u03c4\u03cc\u03ba\u03bf\u03c2, in which the Catholic Church is agreed, and a general invocation of apostles, prophets, and martyrs, the Virgin not being set above these. The argument of Letter CCLXI. (p. 300) that \u201cif the Godbearing flesh was not ordained to be assumed of the lump of Adam, what need was there of the Blessed Virgin?\u201d seems quite inconsistent with the modern doctrine of the Immaculate Conception. Of any cultus of the Virgin, St. Basil\u2019s writings shew no trace.\n3. Relations to the Roman Church.\nIn order to say something under this head, Ceillier, the Benedictine, is driven to such straits as to quote the application of the term \u201cCoryph\u00e6us\u201d to Damasus in Letter CCXXXIX. Certainly St. Basil saw no reason to congratulate the Westerns on their \u201cCoryph\u00e6us,\u201d so far as intelligent interest in the East was involved. Fialon 703 sees the position more clearly, so far as Basil is concerned, though he assumes the Councils to have given more authority to the patriarch of the ancient capital than was in fact conceded. \u201cSi Basile ne va pas, comme la majorit\u00e9 du Concile de Constantinople, jusqu\u2019\u00e0 traiter l\u2019Occident comne \u00e9tranger; s\u2019il ne pretend pas que 1\u2019empire appartienne \u00e0 l\u2019Orient, parce que l\u2019Orient voit naitre le Soleil, et que c\u2019est en Orient que Dieu brilla dans une enveloppe charnelle, 704 ne voudrait il pas, dans l\u2019ordre religieux, l\u2019union indep\u00e9ndante, qui, depuis Constantin, rattache, dans l\u2019ordre politique, ces deux parties du monde Romain? \u00c0 ses yeux l\u2019Orient et l\u2019Occident ne sont ils pas deux freres, dont les droit sont \u00e9gaux, sans supr\u00e9matie, sans ainesse?\u201d\nIn truth Basil appealed to Damasus as Theodoret to Leo, and as Chrysostom to Innocent, not as vassal to liege lord, but as brother to brother. In Basil\u2019s case, even the brotherhood was barely recognised, if recognised at all, by the western prelate.\ncf. Dr. Travers Smith, St. Basil, p. 125.\nlxxiii:703 lxxiii:704\n\u039e\u03ad\u03bd\u03bf\u03bd \u03b3\u03ac\u03c1 \u03ad\u03c3\u03c4\u03b9\u03bd, \u1f61\u03c2 \u1f41\u03c1\u1ff6, \u03bd\u1fe6\u03bd \u1f21 \u03b4\u03cd\u03c3\u03b9\u03c2,\n\u039a\u03b1\u1f76 \u03c4\u1f78\u03bd \u03bb\u03bf\u03b3\u03b9\u03c3\u03bc\u1f78\u03bd, \u1f61\u03c2 \u1f10\u03c0\u03b1\u03af\u03bd\u03b5\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2 \u03c3\u03ba\u03cc\u03c0\u03b5\u03b9,\n\u0394\u03b5\u1fd6\u03bd \u03b3\u1f70\u03c1 \u03c3\u03c5\u03bd\u03ac\u03bb\u03bb\u03b5\u03c3\u03b8\u03b1\u03b9 \u1f21\u03bb\u03af& 251\u00b7 \u03c4\u1f70 \u03c0\u03c1\u03ac\u03b3\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03b1,\n\u0395\u03bd\u03c4\u03b5\u1fe6\u03b8\u03b5\u03bd \u1f00\u03c1\u03c7\u1f74\u03bd \u03bb\u03b1\u03bc\u03b2\u03ac\u03bd\u03bf\u03bd\u03c4\u1fbd \u1f45\u03b8\u03b5\u03bd \u0398\u03b5\u1f78\u03c2\n\u1fce\u0395\u03bb\u03b1\u03bc\u03c8\u03b5\u03bd \u1f21\u03bc\u1fd6\u03bd \u03c3\u03b1\u03c1\u03ba\u03b9\u03ba\u1ff7 \u03c0\u03c1\u03bf\u03b2\u03bb\u03ae\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03b9.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. VIII: Prole...","type":"page"}