Gregory of Nyssa

Nicene & Post-Nicene · AD 325–500

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On Deuteronomy

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  1. Deuteronomy 6:4
    Wherefore [Scripture] says, “The Lord God is one Lord.” By the word Godhead it proclaims too the only-begotten God and does not divide the unity into a duality so as to call the Father and the Son two gods, although each is called God by holy writers.

    ON NOT THREE GODS

  2. Deuteronomy 6:5
    If one does not love God with all his heart and with all his soul, how can he care wholesomely and guilelessly for the love of his brothers, since he is not fulfilling the love of the One on whose account he has a care for the love of his brothers? The person in this condition, who has not given his whole soul to God and has not participated in his love, the craftsman of evil finds disarmed and easily overpowers. .

  3. Deuteronomy 10:22
    When we read in sacred history that Jacob went down into Egypt with seventy-five souls, we understand the flesh also to be intended together with the souls. So then the Word, when he became flesh, took with the flesh the whole of human nature. And hence it was possible that hunger and thirst, fear and dread, desire and sleep, tears and trouble of spirit, and all such things, were in him. For the Godhead, in its proper nature, admits no such affections, nor is the flesh by itself involved in them, if the soul is not affected coordinately with the body.

    AGAINST EUNOMIUS 2.13

  4. Deuteronomy 22:10
    What does Scripture mean by these riddles? That it is not right for evil and virtue to grow together in the same soul. Nor is it right, dividing one’s life between opposites, to reap thorns and grain from the same soul. Nor is it right for the bride of Christ to commit adultery with the enemies of Christ or to bear light in the womb and beget darkness.

    ON THE CHRISTIAN MODE OF LIFE

  5. Deuteronomy 32:39
    It is not possible for the good to exist in me unless it is made to live through the death of my enemy. As long as we keep grasping opposites with each of our hands, it is impossible for there to be participation in both elements in the same being. For if we are holding evil, we lose the power to take hold of virtue.

    ON PERFECTION

  6. Deuteronomy 34:5
    Moses’ death is recorded to have been even more sublime than his life. He died on a mountain peak and left behind neither trace nor memorial of his earthly burden in life. The impress of beauty was not altered by time but remained unchangeable in the changeable nature.

    INSCRIPTIONS OF THE PSALMS 1.56

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