Basil the Great on Canon of the Old Testament

C.330 – 379 · GREEK FATHER

NOT LOCATED IN A SOURCENO POSITION FOUND°

NO STANCE — AND WHY

No position located in this corpus

Searched in the sources read for this figure and not found. A limit of the reading rather than a claim about the figure — a source not yet read could settle it.

THE POSITION

No canon list found. What exists is indirect: the canonical letter defends the Greek text against pressure from the Hebrew, and Letter 8 quotes Wisdom as Scripture without qualification — but Letter 8 is the disputed one.

WHAT OTHERS HOLD HERE

66 books — Apocrypha useful but not ScriptureATHANASIUS · CALVIN · JONATHAN EDWARDS · THE CHURCH OF ELEVEN22 STATEMENT OF FAITH · JOSH HOWERTON · SECOND LONDON BAPTIST CONFESSION · LUTHER · JOHN MACARTHUR · GAVIN ORTLUND · JOHN OWEN · JUSTIN PETERS · R.C. SPROUL · WESTMINSTER CONFESSION · ZWINGLI

Wider canon — deuterocanonical books includedAQUINAS · AUGUSTINE

Predates or straddles the settled disputeCHRYSOSTOM · IRENAEUS

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ABOUT THIS FIGURE

Bishop of Caesarea and monastic legislator. Supplied the Trinitarian vocabulary the church still uses — one ousia, three hypostases — and argued the Spirit's deity in De Spiritu Sancto while deliberately never calling him God outright.

7 OF 11 POSITIONS QUOTED

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"Basil the Great on Canon of the Old Testament", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/basil/ot-canon (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/basil/ot-canon).

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