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Chapter XIV

The Great Catechism (Oratio Catechetica Magna) · Saint Gregory of Nyssa

Chapter XIV.

GrCat 16.1

“Then why,” it is asked, “did the Deity descend to such humiliation? Our faith is staggered to think that God, that incomprehensible, inconceivable, and ineffable reality, transcending all glory of greatness, wraps Himself up in the base covering of humanity, so that His sublime operations as well are debased by this admixture with the grovelling earth.”

GrCat 16.2