The Hexaemeron
Basil of Caesarea · Before the division · public-domain-translation
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Sentences remembered from it
- Basil of Caesarea NPNF2 VIII, The Hexaemeron, Homily V, 2
Nine Lenten homilies on the six days of Genesis, preached morning and evening to working men and — the volume's own introduction says so — taken down as he spoke. The most read and most imitated of his works in later antiquity; Ambrose's Hexaemeron is an imitation of it.