It was not Gregory of Nyssa but Gregory of Nazianzus, in Oration XL, paragraph XLI.
Here's the quote in the translation we have in Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Volume VII:
"No sooner do I conceive of the One than I am illumined by the Splendour of the Three; no sooner do I distinguish Them than I am carried back to the One. When I think of any One of the Three I think of Him as the Whole, and my eyes are filled, and the greater part of what I am thinking of escapes me."
Gregory Nazianzen, Select Orations of Saint Gregory Nazianzen, ed. Philip Schaff and Henry Wace, trans. Charles Gordon Browne and James Edward Swallow, A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, Second Series, Volume VII: S. Cyril of Jerusalem, S. Gregory Nazianzen (New York: Christian Literature Company, 1894), 375.
Gregory of Nyssa
I am attempting, without success, to track down a quote usually attributed to Gregory of Nyssa:
"When I think of the three, I think of the one. When I think of the one, I think of the three. And then my eyes fill with tears and I lose all sense of where I am."
Can anyone with a larger library than mine (either inside or outside of Logos) track this quote down or at least verify it?
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Mike Pettit said:
I am attempting, without success, to track down a quote usually attributed to Gregory of Nyssa:
"When I think of the three, I think of the one. When I think of the one, I think of the three. And then my eyes fill with tears and I lose all sense of where I am."
Can anyone with a larger library than mine (either inside or outside of Logos) track this quote down or at least verify it?
I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, but there is a reference in this transcript to that quote.
http://www.onbeing.org/program/freelance-monotheism-karen-armstrong/transcript/2073
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It was not Gregory of Nyssa but Gregory of Nazianzus, in Oration XL, paragraph XLI.
Here's the quote in the translation we have in Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Volume VII:
"No sooner do I conceive of the One than I am illumined by the Splendour of the Three; no sooner do I distinguish Them than I am carried back to the One. When I think of any One of the Three I think of Him as the Whole, and my eyes are filled, and the greater part of what I am thinking of escapes me."
Gregory Nazianzen, Select Orations of Saint Gregory Nazianzen, ed. Philip Schaff and Henry Wace, trans. Charles Gordon Browne and James Edward Swallow, A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, Second Series, Volume VII: S. Cyril of Jerusalem, S. Gregory Nazianzen (New York: Christian Literature Company, 1894), 375.
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Good catch Rosie. Here is the link:
logosres:npnf21;ref=GregoryNazianzen.Orat._40.41;off=994
or
logosres:npnfrc21;ref=GregoryNazianzen.Orat._40.41;off=994 (if you have the Catholic edition)
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Thanks, Rosie.
I found this quote attributed to St. Gregory of Nyssa in at least three places online, but it is in fact from the Orations of St. Gregory the Theologian. An easy mistake to make! [:)]
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Gabe Martini said:
I found this quote attributed to St. Gregory of Nyssa in at least three places online, but it is in fact from the Orations of St. Gregory the Theologian. An easy mistake to make!
Yes, as Abraham Lincoln once said, "The problem with quotes on the Internet is you can never be sure of the attribution." Or was that Mark Twain?
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Rosie Perera said:
Yes, as Abraham Lincoln once said, "The problem with quotes on the Internet is you can never be sure of the attribution." Or was that Mark Twain?
I always see it on a meme of Abraham Lincoln. That must be the authoritative take.
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Gabe Martini said:
I always see it on a meme of Abraham Lincoln. That must be the authoritative take.
Yes, he said it just after he had landed on the moon. [;)]
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Many thanks for all the help here, it is much appreciated.
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Sleiman said:
Good catch Rosie. Here is the link:
logosres:npnf21;ref=GregoryNazianzen.Orat._40.41;off=994
or
logosres:npnfrc21;ref=GregoryNazianzen.Orat._40.41;off=994 (if you have the Catholic edition)
logosref:GregNaz.Orat. 40.41 should work for all.
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