Homilies on the Creation of the World: Homily 1, the First Day
In cosmogoniam homilia 1
Written about 401, probably in Constantinopolis (now Istanbul, Turkey). The date is the usual view of scholars; some doubt it.
The first of six sermons on the six days of creation, which reads Genesis very literally.
Homily · first written in Greek
The manuscripts give these sermons to John Chrysostom. English made in 2010 from the French of J. Bareille (1865).
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How we know the date and place
- Date written probable
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severian_of_Gabala: he preached at Constantinople from about 400 to 404; the six sermons are usually put in Lent 401 (R. C. Hill, Severian of Gabala: Homilies on Creation and Fall, 2010)
- Place written probable
- The sermons belong to his years as a preacher in the capital (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severian_of_Gabala; Socrates, Church History 6.11); site: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/520998