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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 Galatians

  • Galatians 3:13

    It is not that the Lord was changed into these things—for how could that be?—but because he underwent them, "taking up our transgressions and bearing our sicknesses."

    LETTER 101.61

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.