Works of Saint Gregory of Nazianzus

[ ... ] even as God Theos, what is this? The ignominy of the countenance. Since I appear to have nothing left to be saved, they refer it back to himself; and as a beginning, honor the timeless, and that he might not seem to be an anti-god. You worship, and it is said that it is given. But even within, it is written that it was handed down, and to be ignored by the one to whom he takes up; blood, and himself to be examined and directed, indeed, of the good pleasure of that Father, these of the authority. But you diminish the sufferings, while you pass over the lofty things; and say that he suffered, but that as God he is impassible; what sort of God is it to us that he would be found in the flesh and be body-bound? But by the one he is dishonored in the flesh and is separated. Why is your anger more? Or rather, why is your curse [directed] toward the spheres and the volumes? For we are divided even in those, and we remain silent in these. In some things by number, in others by the theotēs divinity. Are you offended by the flesh? This the Jews do, or even the Samaritans, and the parts of the body; and the form, I will not explain to you; for what of his divinity? This, not even the demons [do]; whom even the demons ask for. Therefore, you are more dishonorable than a Jew. And consider the designation through the name, we shall appear of equal honor. These [are] all to me: God and man. For I saw the sacrifice of the whole. But you do not accept equality, nor the consubstantial divinity. You will say to the one telling you that it is honored and incorporeal for us, or I am angry with you, or I cannot find the cause, and for what cause you deem the part and the abyss. But leave it ours [is] the world, [is] the war; and there is God, [so] that it might happen, thinking [it] as right to me; or will you exchange the one hidden with you, but the savior of the Trias Trinity? From each, we will bind nothing; for the sake of the Trias struggling, we are mad, those who are the physicians of this. And the word, [the] intention, so that we might suffer, or those otherwise setting [it]. So that we judge, the one who surrendered himself as a foundation, so that we might be known; which to the unlearned, or to the reprobate; because having eaten [the]... not being ignorant of the disproportion of God Theos, but only deifying the human. So that we might be adorned. That we might persuade [ourselves] to be enlightened, which we received of old; which we acquired, from [the one] whom we did not persuade. The [words] of knowledge; beyond the theotēs divinity; for our dividing is ancient, and of the same color to us.

[ ... ] toward the name, we shall appear of equal honor. These are all to me, God and also man; for I saw the whole sacrifice. But you do not accept equality, nor the consubstantial divinity; you will say to the one telling you that it is honored and incorporeal for us, or I am angry with you, or I cannot find the cause, and for what cause you deem the part and the abyss. But leave it Our world is war; and there is God, so that it might happen, thinking it as right to me; or will you exchange the one hidden with you, but the savior of the Trias Trinity? From each we will bind nothing; for the sake of the Trias struggling, we are mad, those who are the physicians of this. And the word, the intention, so that we might suffer, or those otherwise setting it. So that we judge the one who surrendered himself as a foundation, so that we might be known; which to the unlearned, or to the reprobate; because having eaten [the]... not being ignorant of the disproportion of God Theos, but only deifying the human. So that we might be adorned. That we might persuade ourselves to be enlightened, which we received of old; which we acquired from the one whom we did not persuade. The [words] of knowledge; beyond the divinity; for our cutting is ancient, and of the same color to us.