Primary source · Koine Greek
The Letters of Gregory of Nazianzus
Gregory of Nazianzus, 'the Theologian' · AD 359–390
What this text is
The first Greek to publish his own letter-collection — including the two letters to Cledonius whose axiom against Apollinaris became the grammar of Christology: what is not assumed is not healed.
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Interlinear passages
Word-for-word glosses of the original; the complete public-domain translation is linked below.
Letter 101 — the axiom
ΤὸTheγὰρforἀπρόσληπτονnot-assumedἀθεράπευτονis unhealed
Public-domain translations
C. G. Browne & J. E. Swallow (NPNF, 1894)
For that which He has not assumed He has not healed; but that which is united to His Godhead is also saved… If only half Adam fell, then that which Christ assumes and saves may be half also; but if the whole, it must be united to the whole of Him that was begotten.
Manuscript witnesses
Byzantine letter-collections
10th c. onward244 letters, arranged by the Theologian himself for his grand-nephew Nicoboulus.
Patrologia Graeca, vol. 37 (Migne)
1858Standard pre-critical text of the corpus.
Provenance
Nazianzus, c. AD 359–390 — the first Greek author to publish his own letters
Editions & scholarship
Critical editions and standard translations behind the text above.
- Saint Grégoire de Nazianze: Lettres (Budé, 2 vols.)Paul Gallay, 1964–1967The critical edition with French translation.
- Gregory of Nazianzus (The Early Church Fathers)Brian E. Daley, 2006Introduction with translations.