St Basil the Great
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"i What then is the meaning of declaring that the Son is of one substance with the Father ? " That one and the same manner of existence is beheld in both ; so that if, for instance, the Father be thought of as being Light in Himself and in His substance, we shall confess the substance of the Son also to be Light. "2 Basil uses repeatedly, in explaining this matter a form of expression which at first sight is startling, namely, that the distinction between sub- stance {piisia) and person {hypost...asis) corresponds to the distinction between common and proper nouns ; as, " man" and " Peter. "^ So that the common nature which is designated by a common noun is common substance j and those proper nouns which are desig- nated in general by the same common one are con- substantial. ^ Thus "all men are of one substance. "^ Plainly this is open to a misconception, which in fact was formed in the days of Basil ; namely, that the assertion of the consubstantiality of the Father and the Son meant '' a kind of division and distribution of a previously existing substance.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
"i What then is the meaning of declaring that the Son is of one substance with the Father ? " That one and the same manner of existence is beheld in both ; so that if, for instance, the Father be thought of as being Light in Himself and in His substance, we shall confess the substance of the Son also to be Light. "2 Basil uses repeatedly, in explaining this matter a form of expression which at first sight is startling, namely, that the distinction between sub- stance {piisia) and person {hypost...asis) corresponds to the distinction between common and proper nouns ; as, " man" and " Peter. "^ So that the common nature which is designated by a common noun is common substance j and those proper nouns which are desig- nated in general by the same common one are con- substantial. ^ Thus "all men are of one substance. "^ Plainly this is open to a misconception, which in fact was formed in the days of Basil ; namely, that the assertion of the consubstantiality of the Father and the Son meant '' a kind of division and distribution of a previously existing substance.
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