How Did Early Christians Interpret the Bible?
Unlike many modern intellectuals, the church fathers recognized that good interpretation is most likely to flow from a good person
“In patristic exegesis, literality functioned as the basis for interpretation. Scripture certainly did refer, evoke, symbolize, exhort, command, and more. In all these particular instances, the fathers took the text as doing something that reached beyond the literality of words. …
“For the fathers, the Bible … co…
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