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On Not Three Gods
Clarifies how one divine essence can be confessed without collapsing personal distinctions within the Trinity.
Gregory of Nyssalate 4th century4th century
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Overview
- Category
- Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers
- Genre
- Treatise
- Tradition
- Eastern
- Region
- Cappadocia
- Original language
- Greek
- Date certainty
- Range
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Manuscript context
This text is represented here through direct Greek witness material associated with Gregory of Nyssa and its circulation in Cappadocia. Approved translation support is available in English, Spanish, and Indonesian.
Themes
Controversies
- Tritheism charges
- Arian controversy
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Primary translation
www.newadvent.org · Source quality: Primary · Last checked: 2026-03-01
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web.archive.org · Source quality: Archive · Last checked: 2026-03-01
Original language witnesses
Witness status: Direct witness
Extracted OCR witness from Patrologia Graeca volume 45, bounded to Ad Ablabium (Not Three Gods).
Open normalized witness textPatrologia Graeca vol. 45 (Ad Ablabium section)
License: Public Domain Mark 1.0
Patrologia Graeca OCR corpus (Gregory of Nyssa, Ad Ablabium)
License: No license declared (source text is historical/public-domain material)