Interpretation and reception
On Infants’ Early Deaths
Gregory of Nyssa
Explains infant death through divine providence and contrasts innocence with acquired vice and purgation. This is a historical theological explanation. The English infinity wording needs original-language study before universalist classification.
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Edition and location
William Moore and Henry Austin Wilson, NPNF second series 5 (1893); New Advent revised HTML
Question of premature death; middle argument comparing infant life, purgation, foreknowledge and banquet