“The work of Fr. Agapie, St. Gregory of Nyssa, interpreter of Scripture, is of a very special novelty and importance in the context in which Orthodox biblical theology has lately been shaping a sustained effort to identify and specify an Orthodox biblical erminology. The guiding line of the work is guided by the very internal exegesis of the Gregorian texts, so that the chapters are chained one after the other in the natural theological logic of the Bishop of Nyssa’s thought. This logic has allowed the author to interpret various details in relation to the whole of St. Gregory’s thought and to express criticisms which, for this reason, seem to us to be more informed than the opinions of other specialists.
The work proves to be the result of careful reading and meditation on the texts of St. Gregory, and the results of this research are confronted, discussed and critically delineated from those of other specialists in the rich footnotes of the reading, which constitute a challenge for further study, as, moreover, the author himself points out in his introduction, saying that each chapter is an opening and an invitation to further research and development.
St. Gregory of Nyssa’s approach from the perspective of the Church – as the author confesses – gives his method an ecclesiastical stamp, which does not exclude, however, the use of modern scientific and academic instruments with the utmost rigor and dexterity.”

Pr. prof. dr. Vasile Mihoc