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The Church Fathers · c. 386–389

Homilies on Genesis

John Chrysostom · c. 347 – 407

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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.

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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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