"purity of life is part of religion"

"Religious virtue is divided into two parts, into that which pertains to the Divine and that which pertains to right conduct (for purity of life is part of religion)."

Διχῆ δὲ τῆς κατ' εὐσέβειαν ἀρετῆς διῃρεμένης, εἴς τε τὸ θεῖον καὶ τὴν εἰς τὴν τοῦ ἤθους κατόρθωσιν (μέρος γὰρ εὐσεβείας καὶ ἡ τοῦ βίου καθαρότης ἐστί), . . .

     Gregory of Nyssa, The life of Moses 2.166, trans. Everett Ferguson and Abraham J. Malherbe (Gregory of Nyssa:  The life of Moses, Classics of Western spirituality (New York; Mahwah, NJ:  Paulist Press, 1978), 96).  The footnote at this point reads, "This fact was not commonly recognized by the Greeks of the pre-Christian centuries.  See A. D. Nock, Conversion (Oxford, 1933), pp. 215 ff." (179n206).  Greek from the 3rd rev. & corr. (1968) ed. of SC 1, 212, 214.  Cf. GNO 7.1, p. 88 ll. 5-7.