St. Gregory Of Nyssa: No Greater Or Less In The Divine Nature

St. Gregory of Nyssa, On The Faith, AD 375: “Let those also who speak of ‘less’ and ‘greater’ in the case of the Father and the Son learn from Paul not to measure things immeasurable. For the Apostle says that the Son is the express image of the Person of the Father [Heb. 1:3]. It is clear, then, that however great the Person of the Father is, so great also is the express image of that Person… And this the great John also teaches when he says: ‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God’. For in saying that He was ‘in the beginning’, and not ‘after the beginning’, he showed that the beginning was never without the Word… But in fact the whole magnitude of the Word is contemplated together with the whole magnitude of God; and consequently in statements concerning the divine nature, it is not admissible to speak of ‘greater’ and ‘less.’”