Download or read book Select Letters of Saint Gregory Nazianzen written by Saint Gregory Nazianzen and published by Aeterna Press. This book was released on with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have failed, I confess, to keep my promise. I had engaged even at Athens, at the time of our friendship and intimate connection there (for I can find no better word for it), to join you in a life of philosophy. But I failed to keep my promise, not of my own will, but because one law prevailed against another; I mean the law which bids us honour our parents overpowered the law of our friendship and intercourse. Yet I will not fail you altogether, if you will accept this offer.....