The Eastern Cross/Library/On Virginity
St. Gregory, who may himself have been married, wrote this early work in praise of the life of virginity, which he understands above all as purity of heart that makes room for God.
Along the way it is a fine book on the passions and on how the soul climbs toward God.
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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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