Gregory of Nazianzus
4th century · AD 390 · Eastern & Byzantine · 285 passages
Called "the Theologian" for his orations on the Trinity, written with unusual poetic power.
Background on Gregory of Nazianzus
In his own words on 1 Chronicles
- 1 Chronicles 11:4
Farewell likewise, grand and renowned temple, our new inheritance, whose greatness is now due to the Word, which once was a Jebus and has now been made by us a Jerusalem.
THE LAST FAREWELL, ORATION 42.26
Quoted verbatim from public-domain English translations of the fathers — Aquinas's Catena Aurea, the Ante-Nicene and Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers, and related editions. Each quotation links to its source.