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Chrysostom: A Study in the History of Biblical Interpretation is unavailable, but you can change that!

Understanding Chrysostom’s exegetical work is important to understanding the Antiochene Church, and Frederic Henry Chase provides a comprehensive examination of the orator’s contributions to the school of Antioch and his interpretations of the Old Testament. In this broad treatise, Chase also takes on the influence of Chrysostom’s critical and scholarly work, as well as his observations on the...

of Theodore was regarded, and later perhaps in the formal condemnation of an Oecumenical Council1. It is no part of the present essay to enter at any length into the history of Chrysostom’s life. It will be enough to indicate the influences which moulded his mind and character, and the surroundings amidst which he did his work2. The life of Chrysostom falls into two main divisions; the first of which comprises some thirty years, years of preparation: the second is a period of a little more than
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