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The Hexaemeron

St Basil the Great · trans. Blomfield Jackson (NPNF, 1895)

This work is presented in 9 parts. Start reading

Contents

Homily I: In the Beginning God made the Heaven and the Earth
Homily II: The Earth was Invisible and Unfinished.
Homily III: On the Firmament
Homily IV: Upon the gathering together of the waters
Homily V: The Germination of the Earth
Homily VI: The creation of luminous bodies
Homily VII: The creation of moving creatures
Homily VIII: The creation of fowl and water animals
Homily IX: The creation of terrestrial animals

Source & edition

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, 2nd series, vol. 8, ed. Philip Schaff & Henry Wace (Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1895). Public domain (published before 1931).

Digital text: CCEL. Footnotes and editorial index markers from the print edition are omitted for readability.

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