Your intention clearly was to translate the grace disclosed by my word into your own life, if you should find in my treatise what you were seeking.
I am at an equal loss about both things:
It is beyond my power to encompass perfection in my treatise or to show in my life the insights of the treatise. And perhaps I am not alone in this.
Many great men, even those who excel in virtue, will admit that for them such an accomplishment as this is unattainable.
St Gregory of Nyssa
