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The range of comment contained in Genesis 1–11 spans from the first century to the eighth, from East to West, and from Greek and Latin speakers to Syriac. Especially helpful in this volume is editor Andrew Louth’s supply of Septuagintal alternative readings to the Masoretic text, which are often necessary to understanding the fathers’ flow of thought.

honor of the “image,” he should in the end through the accomplishment of these works obtain for himself the perfect “likeness.” ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 3.6.1.8 . : All men are made in God’s image; but to be in his likeness is granted only to those who through great love have brought their own freedom into subjection to God. For only when we do not belong to ourselves do we become like him who through love has reconciled us to himself. No one achieves this unless
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