Interpretation and reception
Orations
Gregory of Nazianzus
Reads Gospel resuscitations as pledges of the final resurrection of all, while applying Easter renewal to present life. Opening cloud-rider scene is an oratorical construction explained by the introduction.
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Edition and location
Charles Gordon Browne and James Edward Swallow, NPNF second series 7 (1894); New Advent revised HTML
Oration 45, Second Oration on Easter, I–II and XXVIII–XXX