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title: "Letters and Select Works"
author: "Basil of Caesarea"
translator: "Blomfield Jackson"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Church Fathers"
section: 8 of 102
url: https://scriptura.si/works/basil-of-caesarea-letters-and-select-works/8/
cite: "Basil of Caesarea, tr. Blomfield Jackson, Letters and Select Works, section 8. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/basil-of-caesarea-letters-and-select-works/8/"
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# Letters and Select Works

*Basil of Caesarea, tr. Blomfield Jackson*

Basil on the Holy Spirit, the six days of creation, and his letters.

## 8. Classification

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[¶0] II. Works.

[¶1] The extant works of St. Basil may be conveniently classified as follows:

[¶2] I. Dogmatic.

[¶3] (i) Adversus Eunomium. Πρὸς Εὐνόμιον.

[¶4] (ii) De Spiritu Sancto. Περὶ τοῦ Πνεύματος.

[¶5] II. Exegetic.

[¶6] (i) In Hexæmeron. Εἰς τὴν ῾Εξαήμερον.

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

[¶8] (iii) Commentary on Isaiah i.–xvi.

[¶9] III. Ascetic.

[¶10] (i) Tractatus prævii.

[¶11] (ii.) Proœmium de Judicio Dei and De Fide.

[¶12] (iii) Moralia. Τὰ ᾽Ηθικά.

[¶13] (iv) Regulæ fusius tractatæ. ῞Οροι κατὰ πλάτος.

[¶14] (v) Regulæ brevius tractatæ. ῞Οροι κατ᾽ ἐπιτόμην.

[¶15] IV. Homiletic. XXIV. Homilies.

[¶16] (i) Dogmatic.

[¶17] (ii) Moral.

[¶18] (iii) Panegyric.

[¶19] V. Letters.

[¶20] (i) Historic.

[¶21] (ii) Dogmatic.

[¶22] (iii) Moral.

[¶23] (iv) Disciplinary.

[¶24] (v) Consolatory.

[¶25] (vi) Commendatory.

[¶26] (vii) Familiar.

[¶27] VI. Liturgic.