The Church Fathers · c. 386–389
Homilies on Genesis
John Chrysostom · c. 347 – 407
What it is
Sixty-seven sermons working through Genesis at Antioch, reading it as history rather than allegory and returning constantly to the idea of condescension — that scripture speaks of God walking in the garden the way an adult speaks to a child, stooping to be understood.
Why it lasted
The largest surviving patristic commentary on Genesis and the fullest working-out of accommodation as a principle of reading, which Calvin took up and made central to Reformed hermeneutics.
Scripture it works from
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
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