st gregory of nyssa on the soul and resurrection

In fact what belongs to God must by all means and at any cost be preserved for Him. Gregory-the-respondent says that for brevity’s sake “I did not finish the entire passage where he describes those who are so wedded to earthly passion that there is no remittance in the age to come.”Īnyone want to work on that? (I’m not a Patristics scholar by any stretch of the imagination, so I have to let other people fiddle with these things.

This is the reason, I think, that the name of Abraham’s bosom is given to that good situation of the soul which Scripture makes the athlete of endurance repose…Meanwhile the denial of these blessings which they witness becomes in the others a flame, which burns the soul and causes the craving for refinement of one drop out of that ocean of blessings wherein the saints are affluent which nevertheless they do not get. The man who has once chosen pleasure in this life, and has not cured his inconsiderateness by repentance, places the land of the good beyond his own reach for he has dug himself the yawning impassable abyss of a necessity that nothing can break through. This, in my opinion, is the ‘gulf’ which is not made by the parting of the earth, but by those decisions in this life which result in a separation into opposite characters.

St gregory of nyssa on the soul and resurrection