St Gregory of Nyssa: Human nature is divided into male and female...
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Human nature is divided into male and female, and the free choice of virtue or of evil is set before both equally.
For this reason the corresponding example of virtue for each sex has been exemplified by the divine voice, so that each, by observing the one to which he is akin (the men to Abraham and the women to Sarah), may be directed in the life of virtue by the appropriate examples.
St Gregory of Nyssa
THE LIFE OF MOSES
