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4-page AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIT with erasures and correctionswith the headline: "Greg Nyssa / beatitudess"

Notes and Commentaries on Saint Gregory of Nyssa and on the Beatitudes in Latin and especially in French.

"As in painting, the first beauty remains in the living original and there is a second in the painting. Thus human nature, which is made in imitation of God, is the image and effigy of beatitude. But because the stain of sin has corrupted the beauty of the image in us, he who must wash us by his living water gushing forth into eternal life has come so that, erasing from us all the ugliness of sin, we may be renewed in a very happy form. And just as in the art of painting he who paints beauty teaches the ignorant what beauty must be composed of to be perfect, how the eyes, the hair and all the rest of the person must be: so he who wished to reform our soul in the image of him who is happy, he describes all that serves for beauty and he says first of all blessed are the poor. [...]"

"It is not sadness that the verb calls blessed: but the knowledge of the good, because we do not have in this life what we seek. For what words can we find which give us an idea of this excellent nature which has neither quantity nor quality nor colour etc. all the substance of the good. [...]"
"It is necessary to hear what justice is so that we may desire to satiate ourselves with it when we have seen its beauty. All good virtue."

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