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Friday, May 25, 2007
Basil on the Holy Spirit
Basil, Archbishop of Caesaria, from “On the Holy Spirit”:
[The Christian], then, who in the reading of the Law takes away the letter and turns to the Lord,—and the Lord is now called the Spirit,—becomes moreover like Moses, who had his face glorified by the manifestation of God. For just as objects which lie near brilliant colours are themselves tinted by the brightness which is shed around, so is he who fixes his gaze firmly on the Spirit by the Spirit’s glory somehow transfigured into greater splendour, having his heart lighted up, as it were, by some light streaming from the truth of the Spirit. And, this is “being changed from “the glory” of the Spirit “into” His own “glory,” not in [small] degree, nor dimly and indistinctly, but as we might expect any one to be who is enlightened by the Spirit. Do you not, O [Christian], fear the Apostle when he says “Ye are the temple of God, and the Spirit of God dwelleth in you”? ...
And His operations, what are they? For majesty ineffable, and for numbers innumerable. ...
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