to a developmental model of explanation. The specific portions of patristic exegesis have been selected on the basis of an analytic scheme, according to their capacity to illustrate certain reading techniques that we hope to explain. Our hope is that this analytic approach will allow us to illuminate the particular ways of reading that the church fathers adopted in order to expound the meaning they presumed to be intrinsic to the text. Our approach is organized around three basic strategies of textual
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