Editor’s
Preface.
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translations from the works of St. Gregory of Nyssa have involved
unusual labour, which the Editor hopes will be accepted as a sufficient
apology for the delay of the volume. The difficulty has been extreme of
conveying with correctness in English the meaning of expressions and
arguments which depend on some of the most subtle ideas of Greek
philosophy and theology; and, in addition to the thanks due to the
translators, the Editor must offer a special acknowledgment of the
invaluable help he has received from the exact and philosophical
scholarship of the Rev. J. H. Lupton, Surmaster of St. Paul’s
School. He must renew to Mr. Lupton, with increased earnestness, the
expression of gratitude he had already had occasion to offer in issuing
the Translation of St. Athanasius. From the careful and minute revision
which the volume has thus undergone, the Editor ventures to entertain
some hope that the writings of this important and interesting Father
are in this volume introduced to the English reader in a manner which
will enable him to obtain a fair conception of their meaning and
value.
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Kings College, London, 6th November, 1892.