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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.

when the Counselor comes, whom I shall send you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness to me.’ ”130 Gregory admits that Scripture does not have as much to say about the doctrine of the Holy Spirit as we might wish, and yet for Gregory there is sufficient clarity that we can confess the Holy Spirit to be truly God. This he shows by drawing out what Scripture has to say about the works of the Spirit and the names given to the Holy Spirit. Today
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