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A melaration of Fiath, ...... 5A Metaphrase of the Book of Ecclesiastes, ... 7 Canon Q Epiaue conaerning those Who, in the Inroad of the Barbarians, ate Thinga sacrificed to Idola, or offended in risin Other -ttera, ..... 30 The Oration and Panegyric addremed in Origen, 36 II. DUBIOUS OR SPURIOUS ΙΤΙNGS. A Sectionia Confession of Fiath, .... 81A Fragment of the mme Declaration os Falth, accompanted by
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3. From tho Mas against Sabellius, . . . 1884. Fragmenta es a Second Εpisue in Dionysius os Rome, . 189 Epistis to Bishop Basilides, .... 196
II. CONGININO EPIn s OR FRAGMENTS OF EPISTLES,-1. To Domitius and Didymus, .... 2022. N NOUM , ...... 2043. To Fabius of Antioch, ..... 205'4. To Cornelius the Roman Pontae, . 2165. To the Pontifi Stephen, ..... 2176. N POpe Sixtus, ...... 2187. Τo Philemon Presbyter of Sirius, . . . 2198. To Dionysius, at that time Presbyter of Xystus, and alter arda his Successor, .... 2219. di POpe Sirius II., ..... 22110. Against Bishop Germanus, .... 222 11. TO Hermammon, ...... 23012. di tho Alexandria , ..... 23513. To Hierax, a Bishop in Εgypt, .... 23814. Frem his Fo in Festival Epistie, . . . 240ΕxΕGETICAL FRAGΜΕΝ ,Α Commentary on the Beonning ol Ecclesiastes, . . 242M Interpretation of the Gospei according to Line, . 251 Anothor Fragment on Lino xxii. 42, etc., . . . 257 other Fragment of an Exposition of Luho xxii. 46, etc., 262A Fragment on Isin viii. 12, . . . 264Α Fragment, probably by the Alexandrian Dionysius, oncto Reception es tho Lapaed to Penitence, . 265
INTRODUCTOO NOTICE, ...... 267
Acta es tho Disputation mith tho Heresiarch Manes, 272A Fragment of the Acta of the same Disputation, 417
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INTRODUCTOR U NOTI CRE are in possession os a considerabis bou os testimontes Irom ancient literatum bearing on the life and work of Gregory. From these, though theyare largely mixed up With the marVellous, We gaina tolerably clear and satisfacto vieπ of tho main sacra in his history, and the most patent seatures of his charactor. Thus Wo havs accounts of him, more or lem complete, in Eusebius
Historia Melas. vi. 30, vii. 14), Basil De Spiritu Saneto, xx . 74; Epist. 28, Num. 1 and 2; 204, Num. 2; 207, Num. 4 ; 210, Num. 3, 5, otas, Vol. iii. pp. 62, 107, 303, 311, etc., edit. Paris. BB. 1730 , Jerome s De viris illustr. ch. 65; in the Commemi. in Melesiasten, ch. 4; and Epist. 70, Num. 4,-Works, Vol. i. pp. 424 and 427, edit. Veron.), Rufinns mat. Metis. Vii. 25), Socrates Hist. Meles. iv. 27), Sozomen Hist. Metis. Vii. 27), Evagrius Scholasticus Hiat. Meles. iii. 31 , Suidas in his Leaeleon, and others
os lem moment. From these Various Witnesses We learn
that ho was also known by the name Theodorus, Whichmay havo been his original designation ; that he was a nativeos Ne Caesareia, a considerable place of trade, and oneos the most important toWns os Pontus; that ho bolongedio a family of some wealth and standing; that he was bomos heathen parenis; that at tho ago os fourteon ho tost hissather; that he had a brother named Athenodorus; and that along .ith him ho travelled a ut iram city to city in
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the prosecution os studies that were to fit him for tho pr fession os laW, to which he had been destined. Among tho Various feats of learning Whicli ho thus visited wo findΑlexandria, Athens, Berytus, and the Palestinian Caesareia mentioned. At this last place o Which, as he telis us, homas ted by a happy accident in ille providenco ot God homas brought into connection With Origen. Under this meatteacter lie received tessons in logic, geometry, physic' ethics, philosophy, and ancient literature, and in due time also in biblicat sciencs and tho verities of tho Christian faith. Thus, having becomo Origen's pupil, he became also by thohand of God his convert. Aster a residence of some five years With the great Alexandrian, he returned to his nativoci . Soon, hoWever, a letter foliomed him to Ne Caesareia, in Whita Origen urged him to dedicato himself to thoministry of the church of Christ, and pressed strongly uponhim his obligation to consecrato his gilis to the service of God, and in espectat to devoto his acquirements in heathonscienco and learning to the elucidation of tho Scripturos. on receipt of this letter, so sult oi Wiso and faith ut eounsoland strong exhortation, hom the teacher Whom he Veneraledand loved abovo ali othera, he withdmπ into the wildemess,s hing opportunity for solemn thought and private pruerovor iis contenis. M this time tho bishop of Amasea, a citywhich held apparently a firat placo in tho prorince, Was onenamed Phaedimus, Who, discerning the promise of great things in tho convert, fought to mata him bishop of Caesareia. For a considerable peri , ho ever, Gregorriwho fhrank iram the responsibili of tho episcopal office, hept himself boyond tho bishopys reach, untii Phaedimus, successses in his fearch, had recondie to the stratagemos ordaining him in his absence, and declaring him, With allino solemnities of tho usual ceremonial, bis p of his nativoci . on receiving the repore of this extraordinary step, Gregory yielded, ani coming forth hom tho placo of his con iament, Was consecratin to the bishoprio mith ait thoc tomary formalities; and so Woli did ho dischargo theduties of his ossim, that Milo stero mero said in bo onb
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aeventem Christians in the wholo eiu When ho fidit interodit as bishop, there Wero said to M onj seVenisen pagans init at tho timo of his death. The dato of his studies undero en is taed at about 234 A.D., and that of his ordinationas bishop at a ut 240. Mout the year 250 his church was involved in the sufferings of the Decian persecution, Onwhita occasion ho fled into tho Wildernem, With tho hope of preserving his liso sor his peopis, Whom he also counselledis solio. in that matter his examplo. His floch had muchis endum, again, throno the incursion of the norinem barbarians a ut 260. M tooh pari in tho councii that mel at uota in 265 sor the purpose of trying Paul of Samosata; and Mon aster that he diod, perhaps a ut 270, is me canadopi the conjectural reading Which oves the namo Aurelian insisad of Julian in the account test us by Suidas.
tample, he banished iis divinities is his simple presence, andis mereb placing on the altar a plece of paper bearing the orta, Gregory to Satan reter, he could bring the presiding demona bach to their shrine. Ono strango sto told of himis Gregory of Nyssa is to the effect that, as Gregory Wasmeditating on the great matter os the right Way to Morehip thetrue God, suddenly tWo glorious personages made themselves manifest in his mona, in the one of Whom ho recognised tho Apostle John, in the other the Virgin. They had come, asine sisIγ Mes, to solve tho difficulties Whicli mero mahinghim hesitato in accepting the bishopric. At Marsa request, tho evangelist gavo him then ali tho instruction in doctrino hita he was Mering tor; and the sum of these supernatural
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communications being Written doWn by him astor tho vision vanished, formed the creed Which is stili preserved among his writium. Such Wore tho monders belloved to signatigetho liso os Gregory. But into these it is profitiess to enter. Whon ali tho marvellous is dissocialed from tho historical in the recorti of this bishojs career, Wo have stili the figure os a great, good, and gisted man, deeply versed in the hoatheniore and science of his time, yet more deeply imbued Miththe genuino spirit of another Wisdom, whicli, under God, helearned frem the illustrious thinher of Alexandria, honouringwith ali iove, gratitude, and veneration that teacher to whom ho was indebled for his knowledge of the gospei, and exedi cising an earnest, enlightened, and faithsul ministry of many years in an office which he had not mugiit, but for whieli hohad been sought. Such is, in bries, the picture stat rises up
besore us from a perusal of his oWn writings, as weli as Domthe comparison os ancient accounts of the man and his vocation. of his mell-accredited woas Wo have the sollowing: A Deelaration os Falth, being a creed on tho doctrine of the Trinity; a Metaphrase of the Book of Melesiastes; a Panegyris to Origen, being an oration delivered on leaving thoschool of Origen, expressing eloquently, and with great tendemess of seeling, as meli as polisti os style, the senso othis obligations to that master; and a Canonieat Epistis, in whicli ho gives a varie os directions With respect to thopenances and discipline to be exacted by tho chureli homChristians who had fallen bach into heathonism in times of suffering, and wished to be restored. Other Wocts have been attributed to him, Whicli are doubsul or spurious. His writings havo been osten edited, y Gerard Voss in
1604, by the Paris editora in 1662, by Gallandi in 1788,
and others, Who need not be enumerated here.
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Gallandi, Veterum Patrum Biblioth., Venice 1766, p. 38b.
περιεκτικη) of the constitution os ali things, and Powor formativo ποιητική) of the whole creation, truo Son of true Father, Invisibis of Invisibie, and Incorruptibio os Inco ruptibie, and Immortal of Immortal, and Etornat os Eternal
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χορηγός) os Sanctification; in Whom is manifested God the Fathor, who is above ali and in all, and God the Son, who is through all. There is a perfeci Trinity, in glo
See alao Gregory Nazia . , Orat. 37, p. 609.' Gregory Νagia . , Orat. 40, p. 668, With reserance apparently to
our auctor, sua : Ουδἐν της Τριά/ος δουλον, ουδἐ κτιστον, ουδἐ επείσακτον, ηκουσα των σπων τινος λέγοντο In the Trinity there is nothing euher inarerituri or creatis, Or superinduced, as I heard one of the learned say.
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Gallandi, Biblioth. Vet. Putri siL 387.
God, a prince most honoured, and a prophet most se above ali men. Η- vain and fruitiessare tho affalas of men, and ali purauita that occupy man lFor there is not one Who can teli of any profit attaching tota o thinga Which men Who creep on e th strive is bovand mul to attain is, in servitudo ali tho Whilo to What is transient, and undesimus os considering auot heavenly Withtho nobis vo of the foui. And the lite of men mearetha an as My by day, and in the periods of houm and years,
ing, and othera passing away. d tho matter is liho thotransit os torrendi as they fali into the measuretem deep of the sin mith a mighty nolas. d ali things that havo been constitutin is God for tho sata of men abido tho me: as, for instance, that man is bom os earin, and d paris to earth again; that tho earth iraeli continues stabis; that tho sun accompitinos ita circuit a ut it persectiy, androlis mund to tho fame main again; and that tho minds' in liae manner, and tho mighty rivere mesta fio. into insam, and tho bremes that beat Mon it, ali act Without forcing
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muned With myself, and thought that then I Was miser inthis stan ali that wero beforo me, and I Was expert inunderatanding parabies and the natures of things. But Ilearned that I gave myself to such pursutis to no purpose, and that is Wisdom follows knowledge, in troubles attend