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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 Judges

  • Judges 13:22

    And are you not amazed at Manoah the Judge of yore... the one being unable to endure the sight even of one in whom was a representation of God; and saying, "We are undone, O wife, we have seen God;" speaking as though even a vision of God could not be grasped by human beings, let alone the Nature of God.

    THEOLOGICAL ORATIONS 2 (28).19

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.