John Chrysostom Homilies on Genesis 18-45

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by  John Chrysostom

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SAINT
JOHN CHRYSOSTOM
HOMILIES ON GENESIS
18-45
Translated by
ROBERT C. HILL
School of Divinity
The University of Sydney
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
(Revised for volume 2)
John Chrysostom, Saint, d. 407
Homilies on Genesis.
(The Fathers of the Church; vv. 74, 82)
Translation of: Homiliai eis ten Genesisn.
Bibliography: p. vii-viii.
Contents: v. I. Hiomilies 1-17-v. 2. 18-45.
I. Bible. O. T.-Genesis-Sermons 2. Sermons,
English-Translations from Greek. 3. Sermons Greek
Translations into English. I. Title. II. Series:
Fathers of the church; v. 74, etc.
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CONTENTS
Abbreviations IX
Homily 18 3
Homily 19 21
Homily 20 35
Homily 21 50
Homily 22 68
Homily 23 87
Homily 24 104
Homily 25 124
Homily 26 144
Homily 27 162
Homily 28 183
Homily 29 198
Homily 30 220
Homily 31 237
Homily 32 254
Homily 33 276
Homily 34 289
Homily 35 304
Homily 36 324
Homily 37 340
Homily 38 355
Homily 39 374
Homily 40 389
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Vlll CONTENTS
Homily 41 400
Homily 42 418
Homily 43 436
Homily 44 455
Homily 45 469
ABBREVIATIONS
"Akribeia" Hill, Robert c., "Akribeia: a principle of Chrysostom's
exegesis," Colloquium 14 (October, 1981), pp. 32-36.
CCG Corpus Christianorum. Series graeca. Turnhout: Brepols,
1976-.
CPG Clavis Patrum Graecorum, VoL II. ed. M. Geerard.
Turnhout: Brepols, 1974.
DBS Dictionnaire de la Bible. Supplement, ed. L. Pirot. Paris,
1928- .
FOTC The Fathers of the Church. New York and Washington,
D.C., 1947-.
"horses" Hill, Robert C., "On giving up horses for Lent," Clergy
Review 68 (March, 1983), pp. 105-106.
"Incarnation" Hill, Robert c., "Saint John Chrysostom and the
Incarnation of the Word in Scripture," Compass Theology
Review 14 (1980), pp. 34-38.
Inspiration Hill, Robert C., Saint John Chrysostom's Teaching on Inspiration
in his Old Testament Homilies. Sydney, 1981.
JThS The Journal of Theological Studies. London, 1899-.
ODCC The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2d ed. ed. F. L.
Cross and E. A. Livingstone. Oxford, 1984.
PG Patrologiae CUTSUS completus: Series graeca, 161 volumes. ed.
J.P. Migne. Paris, 1857-1866.
SC Sources Chretiennes, ed. H. de Lubac and J Danielou. Paris,
1942-.
SP Studia Patristica. International Conference on Patristic
Studies at Oxford. (Berlin, and elsewhere)
"sunkatabasis" Hill, Robert C., "On looking again at sunkatabasis,"
Prudentia 13 (1981), pp. 3-11.
"terminology" Hill, Robert C., "Chrysostom's terminology for the inspired
Word," Estudios Biblicos 41 (1983), pp. 367-373.
TRE Theologische Realenzyklopadie
Abbreviations of Classical and Patristic texts follow OCD and ODCC.
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