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Homilies on Genesis 1–17 is unavailable, but you can change that!

This translation makes available for the first time in English one of the most significant Old Testament commentaries of the patristic period. St. John Chrysostom’s extant works outnumber those of any other Father of the East; in the West, only Augustine produced a larger corpus. Of Chrysostom’s more than 600 exegetical homilies, however, only those on the New Testament have previously been...

thrones, dominations, principalities, powers—all were created by him and with him in mind.”8 John, the Son of Thunder, by contrast shouted aloud, “Everything was made through him, and without him no single thing was made.”9 (9) Moses, however, did not speak like that, as you’d expect; after all, it wasn’t logical that those still requiring to be fed on milk be given solid food instead. To take another example: whereas teachers who have been entrusted by parents with the education of their children
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