John: Interpreted by Early Christian and Medieval (The Church’s Bible | CB)
Overview
This Church’s Bible volume on the Gospel of John contains carefully selected and translated homilies and commentaries from such church fathers as Cyril of Alexandria, Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory the Great, Theodore of Mopsuestia, Augustine, Athanasius, and the Venerable Bede. Ranging chronologically from the second century to the ninth, these substantial patristic selections provide an illuminating window into the breadth of the church’s interpretive tradition on John’s Gospel.
- Composed of patristic and medieval commentary on the Bible
- Reveals a millennium’s worth of rich biblical interpretation
- Edited and translated by key scholars in the field
Top Highlights
“(‘God created me at the beginning of his ways for his work’)” (Page 14)
“Using the fourfold creature of Revelation 4 (lion, ox, human, eagle), early Christians routinely ascribed the image of the eagle to the Gospel of John. As one anonymous fourth-century commentator explained, ‘the eagle flies higher than any other birds and alone sets its unblinking gaze upon the rays of the sun.’” (Page xxii)
“the whole person (who consists, of course, of soul and body alike) is going to be immortal,” (Page 39)
“All humility is found in this, that you know yourself” (Page 209)
- Ambrose of Milan
- Ammonius of Alexandria
- Aphrahat
- Apostolic Constitutions
- Athanasius of Alexandria
- Augustine of Hippo
- Basil of Caesarea
- Bede
- Caesarius of Arles
- Clement of Alexandria
- Cyprian of Carthage
- Cyril of Alexandria
- Cyril of Jerusalem
- Didymus the Blind
- Ephrem the Syrian
- Gregory of Nazianzus
- Gregory of Nyssa
- Gregory the Great
- Hilary of Poitiers
- Hippolytus of Rome
- Irenaeus of Lyons
- Jerome
- John Cassian
- John Chrysostom
- John of Damascus
- John Scotus Eriugena
- Justin Martyr
- Leo the Great
- Maximus of Turin
- Novatian
- Origen of Alexandria
- Peter Chrysologus
- Romanos the Melodist
- Rufinus of Aquileia
- Severian of Gabala
- Sophronius of Jerusalem
- Tertullian of Carthage
- Theodore of Mopsuestia
- Theodoret of Cyrus
- Theophilus of Alexandria