Oration 2 (Apologeticus)
Gregory Nazianzen's oration defending his flight from ordination, cited on the hermeneutical middle way between literalism and excessive allegory.
Preface and Praise of Sacred Scripture
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The Author's Method (paragraph 48)
— Nazianzen cited: one must proceed by a middle way between literalists and excessive allegorists
"following Nazianzen's lead (Oration 2, On Easter), that one must proceed by a middle way between those who, with a coarser intellect, dwell on the letter, and those who delight excessively in allegorical speculation alone"