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Elucidation.
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The story of the
“Revelation” is of little consequence, though, if this were
Gregory’s genuine work, it would be easy to account for it as
originating in a beautiful dream. But it is very doubtful whether
it be a genuine work; and, to my mind, it is most fairly treated by
Lardner, to whose elaborate chapter concerning Gregory every scholar
must refer.37
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Credibility, vol. ii. p. 635. | Dr. Burton,
in his edition of Bishop Bull’s works,38
almost overrules that learned
prelate’s inclination to think it genuine, in the following
words: “Hanc formulam minime esse Gregorii
authenticam…multis haud spernendis argumentis demonstrat
Lardner.” Lardner thinks it a fabrication of the fourth
century.
Cave’s learned judgment is more favourable;
and he gives the text39
| 39 Cave,
Lives of the Fathers, vol. i. p. 402, ed. Oxford,
1840. | from Gregory of
Nyssa, which he translates as follows: “There is one God,
the Father of the living Word and of the subsisting Wisdom and Power,
and of Him who is His Eternal Image, the perfect begetter of Him that
is perfect, the Father of the only-begotten Son. There is one
Lord, the only Son of the only Father, God of God, the
character and image of the Godhead, the powerful Word, the
comprehensive Wisdom, by which all things were made, and the Power that
gave being to the whole creation, the true Son of the true Father, the
Invisible of the Invisible, the Incorruptible of the Incorruptible, the
Immortal of the Immortal, and the Eternal of Him that is Eternal.
There is one Holy Ghost, having its subsistence of God, which appeared
through the Son to mankind, the perfect Image of the perfect Son, the
Life-giving Life, the holy Fountain, the Sanctity, and the Author of
sanctification, by whom God the Father is made manifest, who is over
all, and in all; and God the Son, who is through all. A perfect
Trinity, which neither in glory, eternity, or dominion is divided, or
departed from itself.”E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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