Classification.

Classification.

II. Works.

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

I. Dogmatic.

(i) Adversus Eunomium. Πρὸς Εὐνόμιον.

(ii) De Spiritu Sancto. Περὶ 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) Moralia. Τὰ ᾽Ηθικά.

(iv) Regulæ fusius tractatæ. ῞Οροι κατὰ πλάτος.

(v) Regulæ brevius tractatæ. ῞Οροι 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

  1. 1
    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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