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On the Soul and the Resurrection
St. Macrina the Younger · image, public domain
After St. Basil died, St. Gregory went to see their sister Macrina, and found her dying too. He was full of grief, and she talked with him about the soul, death and the resurrection. This is that conversation as he remembered it.
St. Gregory calls her simply “the Teacher.”
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About this edition
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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