Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Job 2:11

There is 1 footnote for this reference.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 8, page 138, footnote 2 (Image)

Basil: Letters and Select Works

The Letters. (HTML)

To his Brother Gregory, concerning the difference between οὐσία and ὑπόστασις. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2026 (In-Text, Margin)

... specifies the “certain man,” in such a way that from name, place, mental qualities, and outside circumstances, the description of the man whose life is being narrated is made in all particulars perfectly clear. If he had been giving an account of the essence, there would not in his explanation of the nature have been any mention of these matters. The same moreover would have been the account that there is in the case of Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and each of the men there mentioned.[Job 2:11] Transfer, then, to the divine dogmas the same standard of difference which you recognise in the case both of essence and of hypostasis in human affairs, and you will not go wrong. Whatever your thought suggests to you as to the mode of the existence ...