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II.  Works.

The extant works of St. Basil may be conveniently classified as follows:

I.  Dogmatic.

(i)  Adversus EunomiumΠρὸς Εὐνόμιον.

(ii)  De Spiritu SanctoΠερὶ τοῦ Πνεύματος.

II.  Exegetic. 302

(i)  In Hexæmeron.  Εἰς τὴν ῾Εξαήμερον.

(ii)  Homiliæ on Pss. i., vii., xiv., xxviii., xxix., xxxii., xxxiii., xliv., xlv., xlviii., lix., lxi., cxiv.

(iii)  Commentary on Isaiah i.–xvi.

p. xxxiii III.  Ascetic.

(i)  Tractatus prævii.

(ii.)  Proœmium de Judicio Dei and De Fide.

(iii)  MoraliaΤὰ ᾽Ηθικά.

(iv) Regulæ fusius tractatæΟροι κατὰ πλάτος.

(v) Regulæ brevius tractatæΟροι κατ᾽ ἐπιτόμην.

IV.  Homiletic.  XXIV.  Homilies.

(i)  Dogmatic.

(ii)  Moral.

(iii)  Panegyric.

V.  Letters.

(i)  Historic.

(ii)  Dogmatic.

(iii)  Moral.

(iv)  Disciplinary.

(v)  Consolatory.

(vi)  Commendatory.

(vii)  Familiar.

VI.  Liturgic.


Footnotes

xxxii:302

According to Cassiodorus (Instit. Divin. Litt. Præfat.) St. Basil wrote in interpretation of the whole of Scripture, but this statement lacks confirmation.  cf. Maran, Vit. Bas. xli.


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