St. Gregory of Nyssa- Why the World Must End

(from On the Making of Man, 380 A.D.) But if someone, beholding the present course of the world, by which intervals of time are marked, going on in a certain order, should say that it is not possible that the predicted stoppage of these moving things should take place, such a man clearly also does…

St. Gregory of Nyssa- On the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil

(from On the Making of Man, 380 A.D.) The tree, then, from which comes this fruit of mixed knowledge, is among those things which are forbidden; and that fruit is combined of opposite qualities, which has the serpent to commend it, it may be for this reason, that the evil is not exposed in its…

St. Gregory of Nyssa- On the Resurrection

(from On the Soul and the Resurrection, 380 A.D.) It seems to me that the words of the Apostle in every respect harmonize with our own conception of what the Resurrection is. They indicate the very same thing that we have embodied in our own definition of it, wherein we said that the Resurrection is…