Gregory of Nazianzus, Orations. Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (Schaff and Wace, 1894), public domain.
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- Orations Oration 1 — On Easter and His Reluctance. I. It is the Day of the Resurrection, and my Beginning has good auspices. Let us then keep the Festival with splendour, and let us embrace one another. Let us say Brethren, even to those…vatican.va
- Orations Oration 2 — Introduction to Oration II. It is generally agreed that this oration was not intended for oral delivery. Its object was to explain and defend S. Gregory’s recent conduct, which had been severely criticised by his…vatican.va
- Orations Oration 3 — To Those Who Had Invited Him, and Not Come to Receive Him. (About Easter a.d. 362.) I. How slow you are, my friends and brethren, to come to listen to my words, though you were so swift in tyrannizing over me, and…vatican.va
- Orations Oration 7 — Panegyric on His Brother S. Cæsarius. The date of this Oration is probably the spring of a.d. 369. It is placed by S. Jerome first among S. Gregory’s Orations. Cæsarius, the Saint’s younger brother, was born probably…vatican.va
- Orations Oration 5 — On his Sister Gorgonia. The exact date of this Oration is uncertain. It is certainly (§23) later than the death of Cæsarius, a.d. 369, and previous to the death of their father, a.d. 374. So much we gather from the…vatican.va
- Orations Oration 12 — To His Father, When He Had Entrusted to Him the Care of the Church of Nazianzus. ThisOration was delivered a.d. 372. Two years earlier Valens had divided Cappadocia into two provinces. Anthimus, Bishop of Tyana,…vatican.va
- Orations Oration 16 — On His Father's Silence, Because of the Plague of Hail. ThisOration belongs to the year a.d. 373. A series of disasters had befallen the people of Nazianzus. A deadly cattle plague, which had devastated their herds,…vatican.va
- Orations Oration 18 — On the Death of His Father. ThisOration was delivered a.d. 374. S. Gregory the elder died early in that year, according to the Greek Menæa on the 1st of January, though Clémencet and some others place his death a few…vatican.va
- Orations Oration 21 — On the Great Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria. The reference in §22 to “the Council which sat first at Seleucia…and afterwards at this mighty city,” leaves no room for doubting that the Oration was delivered at…vatican.va
- Orations Oration 27 — The First Theological Oration. A Preliminary Discourse Against the Eunomians. I. I am to speak against persons who pride themselves on their eloquence; so, to begin with a text of Scripture, “Behold, I am against…vatican.va
- Orations Oration 11 — The Second Theological Oration. I. In the former Discourse we laid down clearly with respect to the Theologian, both what sort of character he ought to bear, and on what kind of subject he may philosophize, and when,…vatican.va
- Orations Oration 12 — The Third Theological Oration. On the Son. On the Son. I. This then is what might be said to cut short our opponents’ readiness to argue and their hastiness with its consequent insecurity in all matters, but above…vatican.va
- Orations Oration 13 — The Fourth Theological Oration, Which is the Second Concerning the Son. I. Since I have by the power of the Spirit sufficiently overthrown the subtleties and intricacies of the arguments, and already solved in the…vatican.va
- Orations Oration 32 — The Fifth Theological Oration. On the Holy Spirit. I. Such then is the account of the Son, and in this manner He has escaped those who would stone Him, passing through the midst of them. For the Word is not stoned,…vatican.va
- Orations Oration 15 — Against The Arians, and Concerning Himself. Delivered at Constantinople about the middle of the year 380. I. Where are they who reproach us with our poverty, and boast themselves of their own riches; who define the…vatican.va
- Orations Oration 16 — On the Arrival of the Egyptians. This Oration was preached at Constantinople in 380, under the following circumstances: Peter, Patriarch of Alexandria, had sent a mission of five of his Suffragans to consecrate the…vatican.va
- Orations Oration 37 — On the Words of the Gospel, 'When Jesus Had Finished These Sayings,' Etc.--S. Matt. xix. 1. I. Jesus Who Chose The Fishermen, Himself also useth a net, and changeth place for place. Why? Not only that He may gain…vatican.va
- Orations Oration 18 — On the Theophany, or Birthday of Christ. The Title of this Oration has given rise to a doubt whether it was preached on Dec. 25, 380, or on Jan. 6, 381. The word Theophania is well known as a name for the Epiphany;…vatican.va
- Orations Oration 19 — Oration on the Holy Lights. The Oration on the Holy Lights was preached on the Festival of the Epiphany 381, and was followed the next day by that on Baptism. In the Eastern Church this Festival is regarded as more…vatican.va
- Orations Oration 20 — The Oration on Holy Baptism. Preached at Constantinople Jan. 6, 381, being the day following the delivery of that on the Holy Lights. I. Yesterday we kept high Festival on the illustrious Day of the Holy Lights; for…vatican.va
- Orations Oration 21 — On Pentecost. It is uncertain to what year the following Oration belongs. It was, however, certainly delivered at Constantinople; the Benedictine Editors think in the year 381, in which case the day would be May 16.…vatican.va
- Orations Oration 22 — The Last Farewell in the Presence of the One Hundred and Fifty Bishops. ThisOration was delivered during the Second Œcumenical Council, held at Constantinople a.d. 381. Historical as well as personal motives render…vatican.va
- Orations Oration 23 — Funeral Oration on the Great S. Basil, Bishop of Cæsarea in Cappadocia. S. Basil died January 1, a.d. 379. A serious illness, in addition to other causes, prevented S. Gregory from being present at his funeral…vatican.va
- Orations Oration 45 — The Second Oration on Easter. ThisOration was not, as its title would perhaps lead us to suppose, delivered immediately after the first; but an interval of many years elapsed between them, and the two have no…vatican.va
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