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John: Interpreted by Early Christian and Medieval Commentators is unavailable, but you can change that!

This Church’s Bible volume on the Gospel of John contains carefully selected and translated homilies and commentaries from such church fathers as Cyril of Alexandria, Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory the Great, Theodore of Mopsuestia, Augustine, Athanasius, and the Venerable Bede. Ranging chronologically from the second century to the ninth, these substantial patristic selections provide an...

Of all the material in the Gospel of John, the first chapter received the most attention from ancient Christian writers. John’s prologue offered rich material for discussing Trinitarian and Christological ideas, and the church fathers explored the first verse at length: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God (1:1). Hilary of Poitiers and Gregory of Nyssa, for example, use that verse to explain the eternal and divine nature of the Word; and the Venerable
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