Works of Saint Gregory of Nazianzus

...having cast them away, he whom alone they would choose to follow. He places on all things the sight of the thanatos death. These things having scarcely tutored them, having turned away from every wicked need of the animal referring to the base human nature, and for this reason, having concerned themselves only with dying, that we might flee.
+ It was beautiful to the sight and pleasant for eating. Death is the fruit. Let us eat the wild things. Let us suffer for them as if they were our own. Not having hated, and only in desire, nor did it miss the mark, to the point of being carried away by the unmeasured pleasure, the sweet bait, the tame drug, all the roaming and lack of measure. And having bid farewell, do not...
Sweetness you carry. Everything that is given is no longer dragged along; and before it is taken, we have sinned. After indulgence, it is dishonored. The sense of smell, once accustomed, appears as a distance. Softened by the lack of food, dripping with smoothness and softness, do not forget. Place a hunt for your deceptive words and hypocrisies. Let your rational part be without a share, that you might pull it along, not a senseless death.
When someone comes from the vain world, do not be forgotten by these things for us, and that we are being put to death. If we divide where you are, we perish. We have transgressed your commandment before all that comes to all; and we have been brought down even unto death. And mine and yours are at once all mine. And the feast is near; hence there shall be a remaining, the divine dion gift/portion which fell away, the desiring part. Let everything be examined; may all that is defenseless be ceased. I am being consumed, and it is treacherous. The whole [of it] is loosened for all, and never even [shall] the power be charmed by the debt. Do not hate your brother, and these things are free. For whom he died, he is your brother, man being God and Master. Do not now only [consider] this and the divine, who is a debtor and will help all. And for this reason, he was torn. Do not dishonor a brother, having suffered much worth of a brother. Then we were shown mercy. Do not repay. It is shaken off, he who grew rich in divinity. The way is blood, and having grown rich in the things of the body. And this is being unsympathetic, the most blessed one. Do not worry about...
From a stranger, for whom he rekindled all that is of the enemy. And neighbors, do not alienate God from paradise, and God [was] the former. After giving the child, let me remember the brother. He covers...