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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. V: Ascetic and Moral Treatises.: Chapter III

Christian DogmaticsGregory of NyssaNicene and Post-Nicene Fathers

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Would indeed that some profit might come to myself from this effort! I should have undertaken this labour with the greater readiness, if I could have hope of sharing, according to the Scripture, in the fruits of the plough and the threshing-floor; the toil would then have been a pleasure. As it is, this my knowledge of the beauty of virginity is in some sort vain and useless to me, just as the corn is to the muzzled ox that treads 1351 the floor, or the water that streams from the precipice to…

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