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Gregory of Nyssa

4th century · AD 395 · Eastern & Byzantine · 418 passages

Brother of Basil; wrote on the soul's endless growth into God and read Moses' life as a map of the spiritual journey.

Background on Gregory of Nyssa

In his own words on Revelation

  • Revelation 20:2

    Do we romance about three Resurrections? Do we promise the gluttony of the Millennium? Do we declare that the Jewish animal-sacrifices shall be restored? Do we lower men's hopes again to the Jerusalem below, imagining its rebuilding with stones of a more brilliant material?

    Letter 17, To Eustathia, Ambrosia, and Basilissa

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.