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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...

of this as if to say: Since you know the nature of the foe, do not fail in your resolve, nor lose heart for the contest; on the contrary, “don the armor of God for the purpose of being able to resist the wiles of the devil.”23 His wiles, after all, are many, that is to say, the ways by which he endeavours to trip up the unwary; we should take care to recognize them so as to avoid the attempts he makes and to allow him no inroads. Instead, we should keep our tongue in check, our eyes away from danger
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