Basil of Caesarea

Nicene & Post-Nicene · AD 325–500

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On Philippians

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  1. Philippians 2:8
    It is apparent that the Lord accepted natural feelings to confirm that his humanity was real and not illusory, but the feelings that come from wickedness, all those that besmirch the purity of our lives, he repudiated as being unworthy of his unsullied Godhead.

    LETTER 261

  2. Philippians 3:20
    We drag our body like a shadow along the ground, but we guard our soul as one that shares in the citizenship of heaven.

    ON BAPTISM 1.21

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