695Psalm 95 opens the feast of Pentecost; Gregory begins to show how God led humankind out of idolatry step by step, as a physician feeds the starving by degrees.
697God revealed himself by degrees: the one Godhead through the law, the Son through the Gospel, and finally the Holy Spirit, who came at Pentecost on those in the upper room.
699Comparing Psalm 95 with Hebrews 3, where the psalm’s speaker is the Holy Spirit, and Psalm 78, which names the one tested as God Most High, Gregory argues that the Spirit is God Most High.
701Gregory wishes that the Spirit’s opponents might drink the new wine of the Spirit, and calls his hearers to rejoice on the day the Lord has made.
disputed · Printed in Migne as Gregory's; its authorship is questioned (not yet checked against the modern edition).
Standing
Honoured by the Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant traditions. Honoured as a saint or in a church calendar by: Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant.
Date
ca. 379-394 (approximate) · Not securely dated.
Written at
Cappadocia (disputed)
Language
Greek
Genre
homily
Reference system
Migne page (two columns): each part is one printed page of PG 46, numbered by its left-hand column (e.g. 893 = columns 893-894); Migne prints no chapter numbers in this work.
SBL abbreviation
Pent.Not yet checked
Clavis
CPG (number not yet checked)
Text from
J.-P. Migne, ed., Patrologiae cursus completus, Series Graeca 46 (Paris: Migne, 1863), cols. 696-701 (Printed edition in the public domain; Greek text from the OCR of the Bavarian State Library scan (bsb10800772) of PG 46 (Greek lines only; Migne's Latin translation not used))
Critical editions
Gregorii Nysseni Sermones, Gregorii Nysseni Opera 9-10 (Leiden: Brill) (volume and editors not yet checked; cited only; not reproduced) (cited, not reproduced)