Baited Questions
For the questions of many contain a hidden and elaborate bait, like the hunters’ snare and the military ambush. These are the people who throw out words, not so that they may receive something useful from them, but so that they may seem to have a just pretext for war if they find answers that do not accord with their own liking.
On the Holy Spirit
p. 27-28
St Basil the Great. On the Holy Spirit. Edited by John Behr. Translated by Stephen Hildebrand. Yonkers, NY: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2011.