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In the Christian world of the fourth century, the family of St. Gregory of Nyssa was distinguished for its leadership in civic and religious affairs in the region of the Roman Empire known as Pontus. Cardinal Newman, in an essay on the trials of St. Basil, refers to the family circle which produced these two eminent Fathers as “a sort of nursery of bishops and saints.” From St. Gregory’s life of...

all consist;31 who in the beginning was with God and was God,32 and afterward, according to the Scriptures, was seen upon the earth and conversed with men;33 ‘who being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God, but emptied himself. And in being born of a virgin, ‘taking the form of a servant and in habit found as a man,’34 He fulfilled according to the command of the Father all that was written concerning Him, becoming obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.35 We believe
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