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In the opening chapter of his The Work of the Holy Ghost in Our Salvation Thomas Goodwin, the seventeenth-century Calvinist Independent, makes some general observations on the description of the Spirit as found in John 14–16. Among them is the following comment á propos of John 15.26 and I Cor. 2.11–12:
I would like to dedicate this article to John P. Egan, S.J., who, as the supervisor of the thesis in which this article had its origins, profoundly shaped my understanding of and appreciation for Basil of Caesarea.
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page 343 note 6 On Gregory of Nyssas' role in shaping the third article of the Niceno-Constantinopolitan creed, see the literature cited below in n. 38.
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page 344 note 9 Cf. Letter 236.1 (Courtonne, III, 48), where Basil gives the orthodox interpretation of Matt. 11.27.
page 344 note 10 Sources Chrétiennes, vol. 305, p. 160.
page 345 note 11 Ibid., p. 168.
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page 347 note 18 Ibid., p. 289–290.
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page 348 note 21 Letter 210.3 (Courtonne, II, 192). Atarbius claimed that in teaching such concepts he was heir to the thought of Gregory Thaumaturgus, whose episcopal seat he occupied. But to Basil, Atarbius was an heir not to the revered Gregory, but to Sabellius!
page 348 note 22 Courtonne, II, 184.
page 348 note 23 Letter 263.5 (Courtonne, III, 125).
page 348 note 24 ‘Ps-Athanasius, Contra Sabellianos, and Basil of Caesarea, Contra Sabellianos et Arium et Anomoeos: Analysis and Comparison’, Vigiliae Christianae, 40 (1986)Google Scholar, passim.
page 348 note 25 Homily 24.1 (PG 31.601 A).
page 349 note 26 Basil refers to this open letter of Eustathius in Letter 244.5 (Courtonne, III, 78); 131 (Courtonne, II, 44–46).
page 349 note 27 Basil refers to these statements in Letter 129.1 (Courtonne, II, 40).
page 349 note 28 On the Holy Spirit 26.63 (Johnston, p. 122).
page 350 note 29 Against Eunomius 3.6, 7 (Sources Chrétiennes, vol. 305, p. 168, 174).
page 350 note 30 Letter 125.3 (Courtonne, II, 34).
page 350 note 31 For a discussion of the date of this homily see the Appendix: The Dating of Basil's Homily 24.
page 350 note 32 Homily 24.6 (PG 31.612B-613A).
page 351 note 33 Homily 24.7 (PG 31.616B, C).
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page 355 note 42 Homily 24.41–7 (PG 31.608C-617B).
page 356 note 43 Holy Spirit, pp. 111–112.
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page 357 note 46 De Spiritu Sancto, pp. 96–97.