... it seems to me, there is some contradiction to what was found earlier about passions. For if it is recognized that by affinity with the wordless all such spiritual movements are performed in us that the previous word calculated, such as irritability, fear, desire, pleasure and the like, it is said that the good use of such movements is a virtue, and vice comes from the use of the erroneous, moreover, it was added in the word what exactly is brought to the virtuous life by each of the other movements, but it was said about lust that we are brought to God, as if by a chain drawn from Earth to Him. And this speech, it seems, I said, somehow contradicts the goal. / Who will explain to us the absurdity of these new puzzles? Man before the being of man, flesh that exists before it was created, and the eternal, which has occurred recently, and all the rest of this, about which it randomly argues!
Gregory along with his brother Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nazianzus are known as the Cappadocian Fathers. They attempted to establish Christian philosophy as superior to Greek philosophy.
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