Works of Saint Gregory of Nazianzus

[Run] the race; honor the
day of the Spirit; hold
back the tongue a little, if
possible; but for now, let
the word release the tongue; respect these
voices which we see with the flesh
with Christ; today
A red decorative initial Delta (Δ).
let us form doctrines, tomorrow
let us interpret the oracles; today
let us feast, tomorrow
let us behave improperly; these things
mystically, those things
theatrically; these things to
the churches, those things
to the marketplaces; these things to
the sober, those
to the drunkards; these things
of those who are earnest, those
things of those who are playing against the Spirit;
A red decorative initial Epsilon (E).
Since we have cast away
the foreign, come, let us
delight our own;
this, which was formerly
in the angelic beings
throughout, and always
present, and with God and concerning
God; for God is nothing else
than what is from him, and from another
kind; and to be burning
difficult to move or immovable;
or from the Holy Spirit;
A red decorative initial Epsilon (E).
Then in the fathers
and in the prophets;
of whom some had these
in God or forgiveness, while others
also foreknew the future, forming
the legal spirit; and as a first-fruit
of signs to the lawless;
for such is the power
of the Spirit; all

in the disciples of Christ; for Christ is their own; they were present not as
working, but as equally
accompanying; and to these
in three ways: as much as
they were able to contain, and according to
three times; before the glory
Christ stood passionless; after
being glorified by the resurrection;
after the ascension into
heaven or the dispensation, or because it must shine;
but the purification from the spirits
acquiring the body, not
like a shadow remaining;
and the breathing after the
dispensation, clearly
called God-breathed;
a division of the fiery
tongues, which also
completing; from
himself first,
A red decorative initial Lambda (Λ).
boldly; the second, more
distinctly; the present one, more
perfectly; no longer acting
present as before; but
essentially as one might say
co-present and dwelling with the kin; it was proper
for the bodily Christ
having departed, for this too to
appear bodily; and for Christ
having gone to himself, for the one towards us to come;
and to come; coming,
alone lord, not
merely as not to be resisted;
for such phantasms do not
show a similar faith,
or separate nature; through