>Nevertheless, it is clear that one of the most able and influential early
>exegetes did on fact take a moderately symbolic view of Genesis:
>Augustine, of course.
Also Basil of Caesarea, in his nine homilies on the creation, "The
Hexaemeron", takes a symbolic view.
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