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John Chrysostom, called the “golden-mouthed” for his eloquent preaching, continues in this second volume of the 67 Genesis homilies to provide instruction for the moral reformation of the Christians of Antioch. He continues in Homily 18 with Genesis 3 and finishes in Homily 45 with Genesis 20. They seem to have been delivered perhaps as early as 385, half just before and during Lent and the...

one country for another and displayed such obedience, without age proving an obstacle or any of the other factors we have enumerated, and without his being made slow to obey by the inconvenience of the time or any other thing capable of discouraging him, and on the contrary the old man broke through all hindrances and sped off in haste like a sprightly youth, in the company of his wife, his brother and his retinue, to give effect to the command issued by God. We, on the other hand, are not called
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