Select Letters of Saint Gregory Nazianzen, Archbishop of Constantinople · A Selection from the Letters of Saint Gregory Nazianzen, Sometime Archbishop of Constantinople
Ep. LV
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An Invitation. You flee when I pursue you: perhaps in accordance with the laws of love, to make yourself more valuable. Come then, and fill up at last the loss I have suffered by your long delay. And if any home affairs detain you, you shall leave us again, and so make yourself more precious as an object of desire.
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Volume 7, ed. Philip Schaff and Henry Wace (1890–1900). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.