Gregory: for when speaking about the Lord's body, he adds this: a body which is three-dimensional is by nature circumscribed, even if by the union with the divine it was enriched with the supernatural, having lost none of its natural property. And Andrew of Crete, having stolen this as his own, proclaimed it in his sermon on Lazarus. Wherefore when I first read the saying there, I was amazed at how it was transformed compared to his other style, and it seemed to me to have become inspired there; but when I later found the father of the saying, I did not really blame him for having stolen a golden garment, but I approved of myself, for having recognized the Scythian by his cloak.

60. 76. From the sermon on Pentecost, on "there is a diversity of gifts"

You have asked what the "diversity of gifts" is, and how some "need others for the discernment of the better" according to the great apostle, while others happen to be complete and self-sufficient and valid in themselves; following which, it is for us to know how "the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets," and what the nature of prophecy is, and whom the divine scripture properly calls prophets, and who have obtained this name improperly. It is necessary, then, to first apply the solution to the latter of the questions raised. For that every prediction of the future is prophecy, the name itself, they say, makes clear. Therefore, from wherever someone sets out—whether from divination in sleep or from diagnosis from the hands, which the wise men of old called palmistry, or through the ways a bird rises and cries or does something else—and foretells the future, he is a prophet. But the divine scripture, gathering to itself this name which was widely scattered and divided, brought and bestowed it on those who foretold the coming of the Lord, which he manifested through the flesh. Just as Pythagoras also did; for he too applied the title of wisdom, which was predicated of many sciences, to first philosophy. Therefore, just as he is wise who understands the principles of the sciences, which have received their procession from the mind, so also he is a prophet who has become a herald of the presence of Christ through the flesh. But this one would be properly called a prophet, and someone else might also be so called, who after Christ was deemed worthy of a prophetic gift and foretold the future; for the divine spirit did not work on pure souls only until the coming of the Lord, but since he also has ascended to heaven, the paraclete again came upon them and, being established in the mind as in an acropolis, made his energies manifest. At any rate, in the time of Paul, very many, suddenly changing their mind to the better, both foretold the future, being invisibly possessed by God, and from this were called prophets. But since, having worked through this problem, we have articulated it, come now, let us also "philosophize briefly" about the gifts. The Holy Spirit, being one in the proper sense according to the precise notion of the one, by this very oneness touches all things, grasps all things, not being multiplied or divided according to the mad Numenius, but established in itself and proceeding everywhere and not departing from its oneness, and being participated in by the many. But it is distributed according to the different judgments and choices of those who receive it; wherefore to one it becomes for helping, to another for administration, to another it pours out tongues upon his language, and to another it bestows the interpretation of what is said. For to whatever a person has rendered his own soul suited, of that gift he becomes receptive. But to help