When it comes to the insightful reading of such passages that comes via the elevated sense, we shall not beg to differ at all about its name-whether one wishes to call it tropologia, allegoria, or anything else-but only about whether it contains meanings that are beneficial. (Gregory of Nyssa)

When it comes to the insightful reading of such passages that comes via the elevated sense, we shall not beg to differ at all about its name-whether one wishes to call it tropologia, allegoria, or anything else-but only about whether it contains meanings that are beneficial.

Gregory of Nyssa

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