The Wonders Which Are His Own

One of Basil's most significant theological moves when he reflects on the Holy Spirit is to relentlessly include the Spirit when he describes the glory of God:

Shall we not then highly exalt him who is in his nature divine, in his greatness infinite, in his operations powerful, in the blessings he confers, good? Shall we not give him glory? And I understand glory to mean nothing else than the enumeration of the wonders which are his own

While then so many things are glorified, do you wish the Spirit alone of all things to be unglorified? Yet the apostle says, "the ministration of the Spirit is glorious" (2 Cor 3:8). How then can he himself be unworthy of glory? 

What reason is there for robbing of his share of glory him who is everywhere associated with the Godhead; in the confession of the faith, in the baptism of redemption, in the working of miracles, in the indwelling of the saints, in the graces bestowed on obedience? For there is not even one single gift which reaches creation without the Holy Spirit. 

—Basil the Great, On the Holy Spirit, as quoted in The Nicene Creed, 166. 

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January 18, 2025
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