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St. Gregory of Nazianzus: Select Orations is unavailable, but you can change that!

This translation makes available nineteen orations by the fourth-century Cappadocian father Gregory of Nazianzus. Most are appearing here in English for the first time. These homilies span all the phases of Gregory’s ecclesiastical career, beginning with his service as a parish priest assisting his father, the elder Gregory, in his hometown of Nazianzus in the early 360s, to his stormy tenure as...

more than a full supply of food and drink, perishable things. And I expect the blessed Micah too has something like this in mind when he says, confronting those who make a show of virtue as they creep along the ground, Draw ye near to the everlasting mountains. Arise; for this is not thy rest.85 These are almost the very words that our Lord and Savior uses to admonish us. What does he say? Rise, let us go hence.86 He is not merely conducting his disciples of the moment from that specific place, as
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