Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Hebrews 1
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 5, page 94, footnote 3 (Image)
Gregory of Nyssa: Dogmatic Treatises; Select Writings and Letters
Dogmatic Treatises. (HTML)
Against Eunomius. (HTML)
Book I (HTML)
Answer to the question he is always asking, “Can He who is be begotten?” (HTML)
... in the other in two different senses; the Son being in the Father as the beauty of the image is to be found in the form from which it has been outlined; and the Father in the Son, as that original beauty is to be found in the image of itself. Now in all hand-made images the interval of time is a point of separation between the model and that to which it lends its form; but there the one cannot be separated from the other, neither the “express image” from the “Person,” to use the Apostle’s words[Hebrews 1], nor the “brightness” from the “glory” of God, nor the representation from the goodness; but when once thought has grasped one of these, it has admitted the associated Verity as well. “ Being,” he says (not becoming), “the brightness of His ...