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 Deuteronomy
- Deuteronomy 27:5
It was once counted a glory for the altar that no axe had been lifted upon it, no stonecutter's tool seen or heard. The higher meaning was that whatever was consecrated to God should be natural and free from artifice.
ORATION 18.10
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.