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Gregory of Nyssa
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Evil will come to nought and will be completely destroyed.
— A Treatise on 1 Corinthians 15.28
Gregory of Nyssa
Bishop of Nyssa
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Fourth-century bishop who wrote the first recorded condemnation of slavery as inherently sinful — centuries before abolition became a mainstream idea anywhere on earth.
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Born around 335, Gregory served as bishop of Nyssa from 372 to 376 and again from 378 until his death in 394. He lacked the administrative flair of his elder brother Basil of Caesarea or the influence of their friend Gregory of Nazianzus, but the three became known collectively as the Cappadocian Fathers. An erudite theologian influenced by Origen, Gregory made significant contributions to the doctrine of the Trinity and the Nicene Creed. Since the mid-twentieth century, academic interest in his works has surged, particularly around questions of universal salvation, challenging longstanding re…
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Gregory of Nyssa
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As virtue is a thing that has no master, that is, is free, everything that is free will be united with virtue.
— Dialogue on the Soul and the Resurrection, Patrologia Graeca 46.101-105
Gregory of Nyssa
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Indeed, it was for this that intelligent beings came into existence; namely, that the riches of the Divine blessings should not lie idle.
— Dialogue on the Soul and the Resurrection
Gregory of Nyssa
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I got me slaves and slave-girls.' For what price, tell me? What did you find in existence worth as much as this human nature? What price did you put on rationality?
— Homilies on Ecclesiastes; Hall and Moriarty, trs., de Gruyter (New York, 1993) p. 74.
Gregory of Nyssa
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Every concept that comes from some comprehensible image, by an approximate understanding and by guessing at the Divine nature, constitutes an idol of God and does not proclaim God.
— The Life of Moses; translation, introd. and notes by Abraham J. Malherbe and Everett Ferguson ; pref. by John Meyendorff Page 96 (1978 ed).
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