Three Poems
Three Poems: Concerning His Own Affairs, Concerning Himself and the Bishops, and Concerning His Own Life (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 75)
Translated by DENIS MOLAISE MEEHAN
Supplementary Notes by THOMAS P. HALTON
Series: Fathers of the Church
Copyright Date: 1987
Published by: Catholic University of America Press
https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt32b11s
Pages: 156
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt32b11s
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Three Poems
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eISBN: 978-0-8132-1175-6
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  1. Front Matter
    Front Matter (pp. i-iv)
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  2. Table of Contents
    Table of Contents (pp. v-vi)
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  3. SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
    SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY (pp. vii-x)
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  4. ABBREVIATIONS
    ABBREVIATIONS (pp. xi-xii)
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  5. INTRODUCTION
    INTRODUCTION (pp. 1-22)
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    Saint Gregory of Nazianzus¹ was born either at the town of Nazianzus, or at Arianzus, a country estate bordering the town, in south western Cappadocia, in the year 329 or 330. The estate, according to the usual pattern of Roman provincial latifundia, was probably fairly considerable. Fifty years later it was still in the hands of the family.² It was here that Gregory came after his retirement from Constantinople, and here that he died in 389 or 390. For most of the illustrious ecclesiastics indeed who had origin in Cappadocia in the fourth century, all the information we possess goes...

  6. I CONCERNING HIS OWN AFFAIRS De rebus suis II/I/I (PG 37.969-1017)
    I CONCERNING HIS OWN AFFAIRS De rebus suis II/I/I (PG 37.969-1017) (pp. 23-46)
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    O Christ my King. You turned aside the dire might of Amelech, when your servant Moses raised his pure hands after the pattern of the cross in prayer upon the mountain. You fettered the savage jaws of lions and the sharp strength of their claws for Daniel’s¹ sake when he stretched out his hands. When Jonas opened wide his arms in prayer within the monster’s entrails, he was delivered by your power from the whale.² And when the three young men in the Assyrian furnace boldly raised their arms you spread about them a moist cloud. Once, in order to...

  7. II CONCERNING HIMSELF AND THE BISHOPS De se ipso et de episcopis II/I/XII (PG 37.1166–1227)
    II CONCERNING HIMSELF AND THE BISHOPS De se ipso et de episcopis II/I/XII (PG 37.1166–1227) (pp. 47-74)
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    It may be that, just as I modelled myself after the commandments of him who suffered and bore with ill-use, so too, after ill-use, I should restrain my language: in the hope, that is, of the more perfect reward which recompenses a more demanding struggle. For reward is according to quality of performance, for the perfect, perfect; for the lesser, something less than perfect.¹ However I should not wish the wicked to be altogether triumphant, or their path made smooth without a protesting voice being raised.

    I am content to leave their ultimate fate to the final conflagration² because it...

  8. III CONCERNING HIS OWN LIFE De vita sua II/I/XI
    III CONCERNING HIS OWN LIFE De vita sua II/I/XI (pp. 75-130)
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    The idea of this composition is to set forth the tale of my calamities or, if you will, of my achievements. Some, I fancy, depending upon inclination, will tend to see it this way, some that. And inclination is not a very good standard to judge by. Verse-making, however, is pleasant as a medicine for low spirits and, by sugaring the pill of instruction for young people as well, it makes sermonizing enjoyable. The tale is addressed to you people who were my flock once upon a time, but are now another’s: to those in orthodox communion, that is, in...

  9. INDEX
    INDEX (pp. 133-142)
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