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The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church, Volume 2: The Patristic Age is unavailable, but you can change that!

Hughes Oliphant Old surveys the history of preaching in the Greek schools of Alexandria and Antioch, in the Syriac church, and throughout the Christian Empire, concluding with the preaching of Leo the Great, Peter Chrysologos, and Gregory I.

Basil’s Hexaemeron is a series of nine sermons which were preached in the course of several days at morning and evening prayer.95 It is often claimed that they were preached during Lent, but this may well be in error. There is a reference to fasting at the end of the eighth sermon, but this may refer to Friday fasting rather than Lenten fasting. Certainly the theme of the sermons does not suggest Lent, nor is there any indication
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