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Gregory of Nyssa, on Luke 7:29
Gregory of Nyssa · c. A.D. 335–395
Luke 7:29 · Douay-Rheims
“And all the people hearing, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with John’s baptism.”
On this verse:
“(Hom. 6. in Eccl.) But singing and lamentation are nothing else but the breaking forth, the one indeed of joy, the other of sorrow. Now at the sound of a tune played upon a musical instrument, man by the concordant beating of his feet, and motion of his body, pourtrays his inward feelings. Hence he says, We have sung, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.”
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