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THE FATHERS OF THE CHURCH A NEW TRANSLATION VOLUME 98 THE FATHERS OF THE CHURCH A NEW TRANSLATION EDITORIAL BOARD ThomasP.Halton TheCatholicUniversityofAmerica EditorialDirector ElizabethClark RobertD.Sider DukeUniversity DickinsonCollege JosephT.Lienhard,S.J. MichaelSlusser FordhamUniversity DuquesneUniversity FrankA.C.Mantello CynthiaWhite TheCatholicUniversityofAmerica TheUniversityofArizona KathleenMcVey RobinDarlingYoung PrincetonTheologicalSeminary TheCatholicUniversityofAmerica DavidJ.McGonagle Director TheCatholicUniversityofAmericaPress FORMER EDITORIAL DIRECTORS LudwigSchopp,RoyJ.Deferrari,BernardM.Peebles, HermigildDressler,O.F.M. EdwardStrickland CorneliaHorn StaffEditors ST. GREGORY THAUMATURGUS LIFE AND WORKS Translatedby MICHAEL SLUSSER DuquesneUniversity THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA PRESS Washington,D.C. Copyright©1998 THECATHOLICUNIVERSITYOFAMERICAPRESS Allrightsreserved PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica Thepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirementsofthe AmericanNationalStandardsforInformationScience— PermanenceofPaperforPrintedLibraryMaterials,ansiz39.48–1984. ∞ libraryofcongresscataloging-in-publicationdata Gregory,Thaumaturgus,Saint,ca.213–ca.270. [Works,English,1998] WorksofSt.GregoryThaumaturgus/St.GregoryThaumaturgus, LifeofGregorytheWonderworker/St.GregoryofNyssa:translated byMichaelSlusser. p. cm.—(TheFathersoftheChurch:v.98) TranslatedfromtheGreekandSyriac. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. i.Slusser,Michael,1940– . ii.GregoryofNyssa,Saint,ca. 335–ca.394.DevitaGregoriiThaumaturgi.English. iii.Title. iv.Title:LifeofGregorytheWonderworker. v.Series. br60.f3g74 1998 [br60.a62] 270s—dc21 [270.1] 97–49907 isbn0-8132-0098-9(alk.paper) ToSebastianBrock,MauriceWiles,andHenriCrouzel ingratitudefortheirexampleandencouragement CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi Bibliography xiii Introduction 1 st. gregory of nyssa LifeofGregorytheWonderworker 41 st. gregory thaumaturgus AddressofThanksgivingtoOrigen 91 MetaphraseontheEcclesiastesofSolomon 127 CanonicalEpistle 147 ToTheopompus,ontheImpassibilityand PassibilityofGod 152 ToPhilagrius[Evagrius],onConsubstantiality 174 associated works ToTatian,ontheSoul 181 GlossaryonEzekiel 187 LetterofOrigentoGregory 190 indices GeneralIndex 195 IndexofHolyScripture 198 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ItwasanarticlebyHenriCrouzel,S.J.,whichﬁrstdirectedmy attentiontoSt.GregoryThaumaturgus.FascinatedbyGregory’s ToTheopompusontheImpassibilityandPassibilityofGod,Iwrotemy doctoraldissertationunderthesupervisionofProfessorMaurice F.Wilesonthesecond-centuryprecedentsforGregory’sstartling assertions about the suffering of God. Sebastian Brock recom- mended me to write the article on Gregory for the Theologische Realenzyklopädie, a task which led me to undertake the present volume. All three scholars continued to encourage me in my scholarlyworkandinmystudiesofGregoryinparticular.With- outSebastianBrock’sassistanceonthetranslationofToTheopom- pus,IdoubtifIwouldhavehadthecouragetopublishtherestof thesetranslations. Inaddition,MichelVanEsbroeck,oftheSociétédesBollan- distes, gave me a valuable preview of some of his unpublished studiesofthecomplexliterarymaterialswhichhaveGregoryat their center. Raymond Van Dam, of the Department of History attheUniversityofMichigan,helpedmystudyofSt.Gregoryof Nyssa’sLifeofGregorytheWonderworkernotonlybyhisownpene- tratingstudyofthattextbutbyreviewingmytranslationofitand makinganumberofvaluablesuggestions. Finally, I wish to express my thanks to my colleagues at DuquesneUniversityfortheirsupport,andtotheuniversityfor aPresidentialScholarshipGranttofacilitatecompletionofthis project. ix ABBREVIATIONS CPG ClavisPatrumGraecorum.Vol.1.EditedbyM.Geerard.Turn- hout:Brepols,1974. GCS DiegriechischenchristlichenSchriftstellerdererstendrei Jahrhunderte.Leipzig,1897–. LXX Septuagint PG Patrologiaecursuscompletus:Seriesgraeca.161volumes.Ed- itedbyJ.-P.Migne.Paris,1857–66. PL Patrologiaecursuscompletus:Serieslatina.221volumes.Ed- itedbyJ.-P.Migne.Paris,1878–90. PWS PaulysReal-encyclopädiederclassischen Altertumswissenschaft.EditedbyAugustFriedrichvonPauly andGeorgWissowa.Stuttgart:A.Druckenmüller,1893–1963. SC Sourceschrétiennes.EditedbyH.deLubacandJ.Daniélou. Paris,1942–. AbbreviationsofClassicalandPatristictextsfollowH.G.Liddell,R.Scott, andH.S.Jones,eds.,AGreek-EnglishLexicon(Oxford,1940)andG.W.H. 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