“There You Shall Offer Him Up As A Holocaust On The Height That I Will Point Out To You” (Gen 22:2). Selected Methods Of Patristic Exegesis. Part Two.

Abstract

For the Church Fathers the Scriptures constituted more than just Words and they strived to go beyond literal understanding of the text. Therefore, the purpose of this article, which is the second one of a two-part study, is to give a brief explanation of various methods of patristic exegesis and its practical application using as an example the Sacrifice of Isaac in the Book of Genesis