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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 141

Letter XCII. [2309]

… To our right godly and holy brethren who are ministering in Italy and Gaul, bishops of like mind with us, we, Meletius, [2310] Eusebius, [2311] Basil, [2312] Bassus, [2313] Gregory, [2314] Pelagius, [2315] Paul, Anthimus …

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Leo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 22

Letter XX.

… of which Synod the leader and chief was Cyril of blessed memory bishop of the Alexandrians, the partner and sharer in the preaching and in the Faith of those saints and elect of God, Gregory

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Gregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 14

Letter II.

… he concealed it, by devouring it, as long as Basil lived.' He then goes on to say that after Basil's death, Theodore (of Mopsuestia), Gregory of Nyssa, and Sophronius found it and dealt with …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 280

Canon XCIII.

Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, to St. Letoïus, Bishop of Melitene. [600] Canon I. At Easter not only they who are transformed by the grace of the laver, i.e. baptism, but they who are penitents …

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Augustine — Sermon on the Mount & Gospel Harmony • SECTION 4

Chapter II.

… to the Messiah kingdom, by Meyer; to the land of the living beyond the heavens by Gregory of Nyssa. "Humility and meekness have been proved to be a conquering principle in the world's history …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 168

Letter CLV. [2508]

… So Gregory of Nyssa, Hom. i. in xl. Mar. ii. 935. As early as the time of St. Augustine (430) a thriving trade in forged relics had already begun. (Aug., De Opere Monach. 28.) cf …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 164

Chapter XXVII.--The Works of Others that flourished at that Time.

… Hippolytus, Basil, Gregory of Nyssa, Ambrose, and others wrote upon it, as did also the Apion mentioned in the next sentence. The work of Candidus is no longer extant, nor do we know anything more …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 130

Canon XXV.

… 1), and the "tamiai of the sacred goods" of his brother's at Nyssa (ib., 225). And although Gregory Nazianzen took credit to himself for declining to appoint a "stranger" to make an estimate of …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 82

Introduction on the number of the Canons.

Gregory of Nyssa, and St. Peter of Sebaste, there were also at Constantinople on account of the Synod many other Bishops, remarkable either for the holiness of their life, or for their zeal for the …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 148

[3710] Isa. viii. 19.

… It is very frequently used in this limited sense; examples of which may readily be found in Gregory of Nyssa, Basil, Chrysostom, and others. A similar use occurs in Orat. XXXVIII., c. 8, in which …

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Socrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 281

Councils, imperial convocation defended, [3028]208.

Gregory, bishop of Nyssa, [3344]382. Gregory Nazianzen, [3345]193, [3346]199; a source for Sozomen, [3347]223; hated by Julian, [3348]340; attends council of Tyana, [3349]353; becomes bishop of Nazianzus, [3350]356 …

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Hilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 175

Chapter XV.--Concerning the energies in our Lord Jesus Christ.

… For the blessed Gregory, bishop of Nyssa, says [2139] , "Things that have one and the same energy, have also absolutely the same power." For all energy is the effect of power. But it cannot be …

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Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 68

Alexander of Cappadocia

… in condemnation of Thegnostus, who, however, has been vindicated by Bull [1249] and Prudentius Maranus. [1250] Gregory of Nyssa has also charged him with holding the same error as Eunomius on the subject of the …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 13

Chapter VII.--Eucharistic Doctrine.

… the famous passage of Gregory of Nyssa, in which this doctrine is fully developed. It will be sufficient to quote here the latter part of the passage, in which Gregory is speaking of the Wine …

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