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Gregory of Nyssa writes in his Life of Moses: "one limit of perfection is the fact that it has no limit....Why? Because no good has any limit." And in his treatise on perfection, he's more expansive: "one ought not to be distressed when one considers this tendency (toward mutability) in our nature; rather let us change in such a way that we may constantly evolve towards what is better, being transformed from glory to glory, and thus always improving and ever becoming more perfect by daily growth, and never arriving at any limit of perfection. For that perfection consists in our never stopping in our growth in good, never circumscribing our perfection by any limitation."
Exactly right: Perfection consists in our always growing to become more perfect.
posted by Peter J. Leithart on Monday, July 31, 2006 at 07:22 PM
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