The Great Catechism.
Chapter XIV
Chapter XIV.
“Then why,” it is asked, “did the Deity descend to such humiliation? Our faith is staggered to think that God, that incomprehensible, inconceivable, and ineffable reality, transcending all glory of greatness, wraps Himself up in the base covering of humanity, so that His sublime operations as well are debased by this admixture with the grovelling earth.”
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NPNF2-05. Gregory of Nyssa: Dogmatic Treatises, Etc.. Historical English edition; series volume first published 1893.
William Moore and Henry Austin Wilson, translators
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