"When death, and corruption, and darkness, and every other offshoot of evil had grown into the nature of the author of evil, the approach of the Divine power, acting like fire, and making that unnatural accretion to disappear, thus by purgation of the evil becomes a blessing to that nature, though the separation is agonizing... When, after long periods of time, the evil of our nature, which now is mixed up with it and has grown with its growth, has been expelled, and when there has been a restoration of those who are now lying in Sin to their primal state, a harmony of thanksgiving will arise from all creation, as well from those who in the process of the purgation have suffered chastisement, as from those who needed not any purgation at all. These and the like benefits the great mystery of the Divine incarnation bestows... He accomplished all the results before mentioned, freeing both man from evil, and healing even the introducer of evil himself."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
St. Gregory of Nyssa, The Great Catechism, Chapter XXVI.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Christian_universalism
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Christian universalism
28 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Christian universalism →
Related Quotes
"Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. I have sworn by mysel…"
"For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved."
"Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one th…"
"For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive."
"When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of h…"
"The power that teaches us piety, the word of salvation... comes to many, and subdues to itself all whom it visits: fo…"
"Formerly the world, as guilty, was under judgment from the Law; but now the Word has taken on Himself the judgment, a…"
"I know that many understand this king of Nineveh (Jonah 3:6) to be the devil, who at the end of the world, since no c…"
"After those worthy of restoration to their original state have been saved..., those entirely lawless and those persev…"
"Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calle…"