On the Holy Trinity, and of the Godhead of the Holy Spirit.

 All you who study medicine have, one may say, humanity for your profession: and I think that one who preferred your science to all the serious pursuit

 I may say that those who conceived this causeless hatred for us seemed to be acting very much on the principle of Æsop’s fable. For just as he makes h

 Well, what is their charge? There are two brought forward together in the accusation against us one, that we divide the Persons the other, that we d

 But our argument in reply to this is ready and clear. For any one who condemns those who say that the Godhead is one, must necessarily support either

 What, then, is our doctrine? The Lord, in delivering the saving Faith to those who become disciples of the word, joins with the Father and the Son the

 But they say that this appellation is indicative of nature, and that, as the nature of the Spirit is not common to the Father and the Son, for this re

 But the order of things which is above us, alike in the region of intelligence and in that of sense (if by what we know we may form conjectures about

 But I know not how these makers-up of all sorts of arguments bring the appellation of Godhead to be an indication of nature, as though they had not he

 But if any one were to call this appellation indicative of dignity, I cannot tell by what reasoning he drags the word to this significance. Since howe

On the Holy Trinity, and of the Godhead of the Holy Spirit.

To Eustathius1    The greater part of this treatise is found also among the Letters of S. Basil [Ep. 189 (80): Ed. Gaume, Tom iii. p. 401 (276 c.)]. The Benedictine edition of S. Basil notes that in one ms. a marginal note attributes the letter to Gregory. It may be added that those parts which appear to be found only in the mss. of Gregory make the argument considerably clearer than it is if they are excluded, as they are from the Benedictine text of S. Basil..

[3] ΓΡΗΓΟΡΙΟΥ ΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΟΥ ΝΥΣΣΗΣ ΠΡΟΣ ΕΥΣΤΑΘΙΟΝ ΠΕΡΙ ΤΗΣ ΑΓΙΑΣ ΤΡΙΑΔΟΣ