(i)  As of the De Spiritu Sancto, so of the Hexæmeron, no further account need be given here.  It may, however, be noted that the Ninth Homily ends abruptly, and the latter, and apparently more important, portion of the subject is treated of at less length than the former.  Jerome De Vir. Illust. cxvi. and Cassiodorus Instit. Div. i. speak of nine homilies only on the creation.  Socrates Ecc. Hist. iv. 26. says the Hexæmeron was completed by Gregory of Nyssa.  Three orations are published among Basil’s works, two on the creation of men and one on Paradise, which are attributed to Basil by Combefis and Du Pin, but not considered genuine by Tillemont, Maran, Garnier, Ceillier, and Fessler.  They appear to be compositions which some editor thought congruous to the popular work of Basil, and so appended them to it.