church father, then in all probability we have misinterpreted the passage in question.24 Such a hermeneutical guideline is, however, far too simplistic to be reliable. For no church father may happen to advocate a particular biblical interpretation that we should today reasonably accept. For example, the church fathers interpreted the scriptural passages about the motion of the sun literally, in line with Greek geocentric cosmology. I am not aware of any church father who believed in heliocentrism