Works of Saint Gregory of Nazianzus

...I shall use, so that with songs [we may follow] the steps according to God.

What does he say? These people received these things after exiting the iron furnace of the Egyptians; leaving behind the brick, the mud, and the forced provision of straw. They carry away their own wages and strategies—which I consider to be… [the Lord] himself, or rather, very piously, he saved someone through use.

A paradox for you, and there you shall use silver. Do not yet [think] this is for you; be provisioned from the stranger, or rather, from your own. For it is a debt, the wages of your slavery and hardship. A sophist does not demand an evil [thing]. I will use it well for him. These things are paid out before the time of the bitter fighter referring to Pharaoh. This [refers to] the mouth of this boar and the defiled one. We build an alien and shaky city. By no means [swear] by the Creator, [thinking] the memorial will remain. And why? To benefit without payment. And why leave it to the Egyptians and their days and powers? [The things] they acquired evilly, they shall spend [in vain].

And regarding those [things]: "They knew, O Lord, the evil things." But [will you] demand yet the silver and the gold? I will give you [what] I desire. Yesterday and...

We labored with joy. For the present [time] is offered to you, and it is given. But the father of mammon wealth/avarice [is for those] who will use [it], and intensely, etc.

Become friends to us yourselves through the mammon wealth of unrighteousness, so that when you fail, you may be received a reference to Luke 16:9 with mammon wealth at the time of judgment. For sinners—if indeed [it is] for alien souls and [those] of the triarchic and great and invisible [God], having become [witnesses] before the martyr of the one who is thus—by no means should one guard [them], not by any means [with] mildness. But if those [others are] wise, towards the earth [this]... where nothing more [exists]. And for all who manage [these things], it is most painful even to taste the [things] according to [wisdom]... [lest] you be deceived, because [you did] not [value] the ephemeral [things]. [They] enslaved [themselves] to such [earthly] holdings, but this one...

And this one, to be seen, we said: [He] will say what I know for a time... The one who is about to learn, [it] will be set for a day. Miraculous [things] will be told. Pharaoh will be destroyed. The small bread, the springs of rocks, the blood-drink will be set. Not with weapons [do I fight], but also [by] the chains of the... [and] the trophy [is] the victory. The river will be made blood. Famine will be... you and me... [it] will be broken. Walls will be razed even without machines. ...and running many [things]... make a child and to themselves.?