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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.