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On the Holy Trinity

Three short treatises

St. Gregory of Nyssa · 4th century

St. Gregory of Nyssa · image, public domain

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Three short pieces on the Trinity: On “Not Three Gods”, written to a friend named Ablabius, On the Holy Trinity, and On the Holy Spirit, against those who denied the Spirit's divinity.

They are a good next step after St. Basil's On the Holy Spirit.

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Translated by William Moore and Henry Austin Wilson, in the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, second series, vol. 5 (1893), edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace.

This translation is in the public domain. We took the text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library and left out the editors’ footnotes.

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