The Use of Athletic Metaphors in the Biblical Homilies of St. John Chrysostom

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The chief purpose of this study is to construct a logical classification of the athletic metaphors occurring in the Biblical Homilies of St. John Chrysostom (c. 347-407), whose use of athletic allusions is the most complete and illuminating of all early Greek Christian writers.