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Philo's On the Creation of the World is a commentary on the first chapters of Genesis, read as a philosophy of creation.
De opificio mundi 1–12 · Unverified
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The Didache gives the Lord's Prayer in the form found in Matthew's Gospel and tells Christians to pray it three times a day.
Didache 8.2–3
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Melito's On Pascha is a homily on the Passover of Exodus 12, read as a figure of Christ's death.
On Pascha 1–10
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Each of Cyril's lectures for the candidates for baptism takes a passage of Scripture as its text, and the whole series is dense with biblical quotation.
Wikipedia, Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical lectures (after the NPNF introduction on CCEL)
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Most of Chrysostom's homilies preach through a book of the Bible verse by verse.
Homilies on Genesis, Matthew, John, Acts, and the Pauline epistles
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Gregory of Nyssa's Life of Moses retells Moses's life from Exodus and Numbers and reads it as the soul's ascent to God.
Life of Moses, Books I–II
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On Christian Doctrine is Augustine's handbook for interpreting and preaching the Bible.
On Christian Doctrine, Prologue
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The Confessions is woven from Scripture, especially the Psalms, and its last three books are an extended reading of Genesis 1.
Confessions, Books XI–XIII
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The Book of Beliefs and Opinions argues that reason and the Scriptures lead to the same truths, and supports each chapter with biblical texts.
Beliefs and Opinions, Introduction 5–6
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Theophylact's Explanation of the Gospels is a verse-by-verse commentary on the four Gospels.
Explanation of the Gospels
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Bernard's Sermons on the Song of Songs read the Song verse by verse as the love between God and the soul.
Sermons on the Song of Songs 1
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In Philosophy
The Guide explains the Bible's words for God, one by one, so that believers are not misled by their bodily sense.
Guide I.1–70
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Francis's Canticle of the Creatures echoes the Bible's hymns calling all creation to praise God (Psalm 148 and Daniel 3).
Canticle of the Creatures
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Ruusbroec's Spiritual Espousals is built around Matthew 25:6: 'See, the bridegroom comes; go out to meet him.'
Spiritual Espousals, Prologue
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Erasmus's Handbook of the Christian Soldier takes its governing image from Paul's armour of God (Ephesians 6), with prayer and Scripture as the Christian's weapons.
Enchiridion, opening chapters; Ephesians 6:13–17
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The treatise is built on Paul's paradox in 1 Corinthians 9:19 and Romans 13:8, that a Christian is free lord of all and dutiful servant of all.
The Freedom of a Christian, opening propositions (Concerning Christian Liberty, Wace and Buchheim tr.), Wikisource, https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Concerning_Christian_Liberty
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The Reformed Pastor is an extended exposition of Acts 20:28, 'Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock'.
The Reformed Pastor, title text
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Paradise Lost is an epic retelling of the Fall in Genesis 1–3.
Paradise Lost I.1–26
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In Philosophy
The Theological-Political Treatise reads the Bible as a historical document, asking who wrote each book and when.
TTP 7–10
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God is a sermon on Deuteronomy 32:35, 'Their foot shall slide in due time'.
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, text
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Each sermon expounds a biblical text, and thirteen of them, the discourses Upon Our Lord's Sermon on the Mount, work through Matthew 5–7 in order.
Wikipedia, Sermons of John Wesley, list of the standard sermons (Sermons 21–33)
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Carey's Enquiry argues that Christ's command to 'teach all nations' (Matthew 28:19–20) still binds the church, so it must send missionaries.
An Enquiry, Section I
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Fear and Trembling is an extended meditation on Genesis 22, Abraham's binding of Isaac.
Fear and Trembling, "Tuning Up" and "Problemata"
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The Brothers Karamazov takes as its epigraph John 12:24, the grain of wheat that must die to bear fruit.
Epigraph
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The Way of a Pilgrim begins with the pilgrim hearing Paul's command to 'pray without ceasing' (1 Thessalonians 5:17).
The Way of a Pilgrim, first narrative
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Barth's Epistle to the Romans is a commentary on Paul's letter to the Romans.
The Epistle to the Romans
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The central part of The Cost of Discipleship is an exposition of the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5–7).
The Cost of Discipleship, part II
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Scholars read the Joads' trek as a reworked Exodus, from bondage and plagues through the wilderness to a hostile promised land, and the title comes by way of Revelation.
Wikipedia, The Grapes of Wrath, Biblical allusions
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In Fiction
Steinbeck retells the story of Cain and Abel through two generations of brothers, and Lee's reading of the Hebrew word timshel becomes the novel's moral centre.
Wikipedia, East of Eden (novel)
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In Fiction
Each part of the novel takes its title and epigraphs from scripture or hymns, and its Pentecostal family's prayers and sins are framed in biblical language.
Wikipedia, Go Tell It on the Mountain (novel), Religious allusion
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In Film
Its title and frame come from Revelation; the passage on the opening of the seventh seal and the silence in heaven is read at the start and near the end.
Wikipedia, The Seventh Seal (lead; Christianity and faith)
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In Music
The title track opens with a spoken reading from the Book of Revelation, the source of the number of the beast it takes as its subject.
Wikipedia, The Number of the Beast (album) (Songs)
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In Music
War's 40 is Bono's setting of Psalm 40: he based its lyrics on the psalm and took the song's title from its number.
Wikipedia, War (U2 album) (Recording)
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Theology of the Body starts from Christ's appeal to 'the beginning' (Matthew 19) and Genesis 1–3, and later reads Ephesians 5 and the Song of Songs.
General Audience, 5 September 1979, and the cycle that follows
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Dekalog · Krzysztof Kieślowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz · 1989–1990 In TV shows
Kieślowski and Piesiewicz built its ten films on the Ten Commandments, each a modern Warsaw story of a moral dilemma loosely tied to one commandment.
Wikipedia, Dekalog, lead
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The Divine Conspiracy is built around the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5–7).
The Divine Conspiracy, chs. 4–7
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The Bible is among the books Lee says shape her writing most, and Pachinko is threaded with the faith of a Christian minister and his family.
Wikipedia, Min Jin Lee