particular those who take early patristic voices seriously: Orthodox, Roman Catholics, and sectors of all the mainline Protestant denominations, Anglicans, free churches, and many evangelicals. Our study ends with the Cappadocian fathers, who represent the first sustained harvest of Origen’s exegetical ideas. So this book covers about four centuries of early Greek patristic reflection. With regret, we must leave for another study the great Antiochene exegetes and rhetoricians who came later, the