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Gregory of Nazianzus · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, vol. 7 · translated by Charles Gordon Browne and James Edward Swallow · edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace · 1894, Christian Literature Company, New York

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1. On Easter and His Reluctance
   Isaiah 66:5
2. In Defence of His Flight to Pontus, and His Return, After His Ordination to the Priesthood, with an Exposition of the Character of the Priestly Office
3. To Those Who Had Invited Him, and Not Come to Receive Him
   2 Peter 1:4
4. Panegyric on His Brother S. Cæsarius
5. On his Sister Gorgonia
6. To His Father, When He Had Entrusted to Him the Care of the Church of Nazianzus
   Psalms 19:131
7. On His Father's Silence, Because of the Plague of Hail
8. On the Death of His Father
   Joshua 14:6
9. On the Great Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria
10. The First Theological Oration.  A Preliminary Discourse Against the Eunomians
    Jeremiah 50:31
11. The Second Theological Oration
    Jeremiah 4:3
12. The Third Theological Oration.  On the Son
    Hebrews 2:4
13. The Fourth Theological Oration, Which is the Second Concerning the Son
    Proverbs 8:22
14. The Fifth Theological Oration. On the Holy Spirit
    Luke 4:29–30
15. Against The Arians, and Concerning Himself
    Micah 6:3
16. On the Arrival of the Egyptians
    Matthew 2:13
17. On the Words of the Gospel, 'When Jesus Had Finished These Sayings,' Etc.--S. Matt. xix. 1
    Matthew 19:1
18. On the Theophany, or Birthday of Christ
19. Oration on the Holy Lights
    Matthew 3:13–17
20. The Oration on Holy Baptism
21. On Pentecost
22. The Last Farewell in the Presence of the One Hundred and Fifty Bishops
23. Funeral Oration on the Great S. Basil, Bishop of Cæsarea in Cappadocia
24. The Second Oration on Easter
    Habakkuk 2:1