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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 earth and birds of the heaven were brought to Adam is for him to determine what to call each one, and he gave them names, that is, “so that God could show man how much better he is than all the animals who lacked reasoning. It appears from this that man is better than the animals because of this ability to reason, because only by reason is one able to distinguish and to discern things by name.”131 20But for the man there was not found a helper fit for him. 21So the LORD God caused a deep sleep
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