The soul is free, and cannot be coerced by any means, not even though one should confine it and keep guard over it in some secret prison-house. For w… - Gregory Thaumaturgus
" "The soul is free, and cannot be coerced by any means, not even though one should confine it and keep guard over it in some secret prison-house. For wherever the intelligence is, there it is also of its own nature and by the first reason. And if it seems to you to be in a kind of prison-house, it is represented as there to you by a sort of second reason. But for all that, it is by no means precluded from subsisting anywhere according to its own determination.
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About Gregory Thaumaturgus
Gregory Thaumaturgus or Gregory the Wonderworker (c. 213 – 270 AD) was a Bishop of Neocaesarea and is recognized as a saint. He had been won over to Christianity by Origen.
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Native Name:
Γρηγόριος ὁ Θαυματουργός
Alternative Names:
Saint Gregory of Neocaesarea
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St. Gregory Thaumaturgus
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