New Testaments is shaped by churchly needs. Homilies, catechesis, apologetic and liturgy are prominent. Even the few commentaries are deeply pastoral in that their exposition addresses the church’s life.4 If modern readers find it difficult to enter the biblical world and to think in its categories, the church fathers provide a helpful entry point. The obfuscating veils of the Enlightenment, modernity and postmodernism did not cloud their vision. As products of the Enlightenment modernity, contemporary