By Anna M. Silvas
This publication provides 37 letters of Gregory of Nyssa (c. 335-379) translated into English and built with scholarly notes. It contains a biography, testimonia from Basil and Gregory Nazianzen, three letters verified by means of G. Pasquali and 7 extra letters reassigned to Gregory.
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One stream, to which most manuscripts belong, contains a full apparatus of prefatory letter, a numbered index of chapters with chapter titles, and chapter-titles in the body of the text. The other stream originally had none of these elements, and seems only to have begun some way into the current text of Chapter 1, preceded by a brief general 33 John P. 1 (Leiden: Brill, 1963), Preface 217–246, Text 247–343. biography 18 text suitable as a general introduction. One manuscript ‘S’,34 shows the shorter text with later elements such as uneven chapter titles and division of the work that crept in from scribal notes in the margin that had been copied later from a manuscript of the fuller version.
E. adultery. Basil was responsible for elevating the profession of celibacy by male ascetics from its earlier more empiric status to the echelon of an ecclesiastically witnessed, canonically recognized state in life equivalent to that of professed virgins. The private commitment of secular male ascetics had no particular standing in the church. Only they would be recognized who made their vow properly in the context of a monastic community. One may wonder whether the experience of his own brother may have contributed to this elaboration of a discipline of vows for monks.
So we are but spectators of the beauties that belongs to others and witnesses of the blessedness of others. And even if we come to some fitting conception of virginity, we experience the same as the cooks and attendants who flavour the tablefare of the rich, but do not themselves partake of what they have prepared. How blessed if it were not so, if we had not come to recognize the beauty through reflection all too late. 32 Other passages in On Virginity also tell against celibacy for Gregory. In the letter prefacing the treatise, Gregory twice refers to the difficulties of ‘the more common life’ (toË koinot°rou b¤ou), those engagements in worldly activities that hinder attention to the more divine life.
