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Gregory of Nyssa — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 11:5-8

Patristic A.D. 395
Gregory of Nyssa · c. A.D. 335–395
“Well does he call those children who by the arms of righteousness have claimed to themselves freedom from passion, shewing that the good which by practice we have acquired, had been from the beginning laid up in our nature. For when any one renouncing the flesh, by living in the exercise of a virtuous life, has overcome passion, then he becomes as a child, and is insensible to the passions. But by the bed we understand the rest of Christ.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 11:5-8 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗

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