Pope St. Gregory the Great on Defending the Church
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How Scripture Grows With It's Reader
Timothy Stanley: Gregory was deeply influenced by Origen's homilies on Ezekiel. He says that image of Scripture growing with its reader comes right out of the confessions, book three. Stanley: But there's also a very deep Augustinian current to his thought. "We have to make ourselves small in order to conform ourselves to the humility of our Lord," he says.
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