On Virginity

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His admirable book "On Virginity", written about 370, was composed to strengthen in all who read it the desire for a life of perfect virtue.


By : Gregory of Nyssa (c 335 - c 395),Translated by William Moore and Henry Austin Wilson (1854 - 1927)

01 - Chapters 1 - 4. Excellencies of virginity


02 - Chapters 5 - 11. Fittingness of virginity for divine contemplation


03 - Chapters 12 - 18. Qualities and virtues that virginity must enclose in itself


04 - Chapters 19 - 24. Principles, descendants and spiritual marriage of virginity

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