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Commentaries on Genesis 1–3: Homilies on Creation and Fall and Commentary on Genesis: Book I is unavailable, but you can change that!

The church fathers displayed considerable interest in the early chapters of Genesis, and often wrote detailed commentaries or preached series of homilies on the Hexameron—the Six Days of Creation—among them Eustathius of Antioch, Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa, Theodore of Mopsuestia, Ambrose, John Chrysostom and Augustine. This volume of Ancient Christian Texts offers a first-time English...

the holy beings, “Day and night they never cease to sing, ‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty.’ ”71 Before him, as Scripture said, they did not cease to sing this at all times. Truly, the greatest and unparalleled rest in heaven for the saints is to sing with untiring voices the praise of the almighty Trinity, which is God. In a more profound way one may understand that God had rested from all his works. Not that he had need for these works in which he rested, for in actuality his true rest
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