search_fathers

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Search the patristic corpus BY WRITER rather than by verse — the corpus is 62,484 passages from 314 writers. Use this for questions ABOUT a father instead of about a verse: 'what did Chrysostom write on?', 'which books of the Bible did Augustine comment on?', 'what did Jerome say about fasting?', 'who commented on Habakkuk?'. Pass `father` alone for a profile plus the full list of biblical books they commented on, with counts. Pass `father` AND `topic` to search inside that writer's work. Pass `topic` alone to search all 314 writers at once. Pass `father` AND `book` for their commentary on one book. Pass nothing for the list of writers the corpus carries. Quotes returned are verbatim from the curated DB — quote them directly with attribution and never paraphrase from training. When the writer's name is ambiguous (there are four Gregorys) the tool says so and lists the candidates; ask the user which one rather than picking. Each quote carries its `quote_id`; a long one comes as an excerpt (`excerpt` names its parts), and `quote_id` alone returns a quote whole, from any tool that gave the id. The same writer's identical text filed under several verses comes once, the others in `also_under`.