Gregory of Nyssa: source notes

Topic: atonement

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/29082.htm
Text: “in order to secure that the ransom in our behalf might be easily accepted by him who required it, the Deity was hidden under the veil of our nature, that so, as with ravenous fish, the hook of the Deity might be gulped down along with the bait of flesh”.
Context: Ransom paid to the devil, with divine “deception”.
Bears on: A1
Status: verified (English)

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2915.htm
Text: “when evil shall have been some day annihilated in the long revolutions of the ages, nothing shall be left outside the world of goodness, but that even from those evil spirits shall rise in harmony the confession of Christ’s Lordship.” And: passions “purged from it and utterly removed by the healing processes worked out by the Fire”.
Context: Restoration (ἀποκατάστασις) taught by a canonized father, through purifying fire.
Bears on: L5, L3
Status: verified (English)