The Holy Spirit as the “Glory” of Christ: Gregory of Nyssa on John 17:22

Abstract

The words of Jesus at the end of what is usually called his “priestly prayer,” collected in John 17:22, “I have given them the glory you gave me, so that they may be one, as we are one,” were discussed by St. Gregory of Nyssa in two homilies: In illud: Tunc et ipse filius1 and In canticum canticorum 15.2 Both should probably be considered mature works, written after the First Council of Constantinople (381) in a serene atmosphere with respect to the pneumatological issues that had shaken the previous decades.3