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The Church Fathers · c. 238–244
Homilies on Genesis
Origen of Alexandria · c. 185–c. 253
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What it is
Sixteen sermons preached to an ordinary congregation, reading the days of creation, the ark, and the patriarchs for their moral and spiritual sense as much as their literal one.
Why it lasted
The best surviving evidence of how allegorical exegesis actually sounded from a pulpit rather than in a lecture hall.
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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.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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