--- title: "Letters and Select Works" author: "Basil of Caesarea" translator: "Blomfield Jackson" languages: [en] shelf: "Church Fathers" section: 16 of 102 url: https://scriptura.si/works/basil-of-caesarea-letters-and-select-works/16/ cite: "Basil of Caesarea, tr. Blomfield Jackson, Letters and Select Works, section 16. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/basil-of-caesarea-letters-and-select-works/16/" --- # Letters and Select Works *Basil of Caesarea, tr. Blomfield Jackson* Basil on the Holy Spirit, the six days of creation, and his letters. ## 16. Writings Spurious and Dubious Source: https://scriptura.si/works/basil-of-caesarea-letters-and-select-works/16/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/basil-of-caesarea-letters-and-select-works/16/#p-N [¶0] VII.—Writings Spurious and Dubious. [¶1] Under this head will be ranked besides writings objections against which have been already noticed: [¶2] 1. Constitutiones monasticæ (᾽Ασκητικαὶ διατάξεις), in number thirty-four. [¶3] 2. Pœnæ in monachos delinquentes, and Pœnæ in Canonicas (ἐπιτίμια). [¶4] 3. Libri duo de Baptismo. [¶5] 4. Sermones duo ascetici. [¶6] 5. Various Homilies: [¶7] a. Adversus Calumniatores SS. Trinitatis, [¶8] b. Altera de Sp. Scto., [¶9] c. In Sanctam Christi Generationem, [¶10] d. De Libero Arbitrio, [¶11] e. In aliquot Scripturæ locis, dicta in Lacizis. [¶12] f. III. De Jejunio. [¶13] g. De Pœnitentia. [¶14] 6. A book On True Virginity. [¶15] 7. A treatise On consolation in adversity. [¶16] 8. A treatise De laude solitariæ vitæ. [¶17] 9. Admonitio ad filum spiritualem (extant only in Latin). [¶18] 10. Sermones de moribus XXIV. (ἠθικοὶ λόγοι), a cento of extracts made by Simeon Metaphrastes. ### Writings Mentioned, But Lost [¶20] VIII.—Writings Mentioned, But Lost. [¶21] A book against the Manichæans (Augustine, c. Julian. i. 16–17). Tillemont (Art. cxlv. p. 303) mentions authors in which lost fragments of St. Basil are to be found, and (Art. cxxxvii. p. 290) refers to the lost Commentary on the Book of Job.