- St. Gregory of Nissa (d. 395 AD) on God’s killing of all firstborn Egyptian children: “The Egyptians act unjustly, and instead their newborn child, who in his infancy cannot distinguish between what is good and what is bad, is punished… Where is the justice? Where is the holiness?”
Gregory of Nyssa, on Jesus’ remark in Mt. 5:26 that “you will never get out until you have paid the last penny”: “When debtors have laid aside all that is alien to them – which is sin – and have stipped off the shame of their debts, they pass into freedom and confidence.”
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