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This paper considers the notion of “tradition” in St. Basil of Caesarea’s Homilies in Hexaemeron, with a special focus on the relation between the terms παράδοσις and δόγμα. The author claims that Basil sees non-Scriptural παράδοσις as a result of “extraction” of the theological meaning of the Scriptural παράδοσις. This meaning, in line with the Pauline tradition, can only be revealed by the Holy Spirit, Who bestows the power to contemplate the δόγμα hidden in παράδοσις. It is only in this sense that δόγμα, for St. Basil, is “preserved in silence” (as he says in De Spiritu Sancto). It is not a “secret” source independent of the Scripture that Basil has in mind saying that δόγμα is kept hidden, but the revelatory function of the Spirit which his theological opponents failed to recognize. His Homilies in Hexaemeron confirm this interpretation.