Commentary on the Seven Catholic Epistles
Overview
Best known in the Middle Ages as a scriptural exegete, Bede here provides a running gloss on the Letters of James, Peter, John, and Jude. Why he chose these `lesser letters' for his first attempt at written exegesis no one knows; perhaps he did so because so few other scriptural commentators had glossed them. They are unique in that he inclined more to the literal interpretation of the text than he did in his more allegorical later commentaries. Preachers will find them useful; readers will find them illuminating.
- Presents a practical and pastoral natura in the author's approach to the books of the Bible
- Contains a distinctive humane approach to matters regarding religion
- Translated from a Latin edition of the commentary on the seven Letters from the New Testament prepared for the series, Corpus Christianorum.
- Table of Abbreviations and Texts Cited
- Preface by the Venerable Bede
- Commentary on James
- Commentary on 1 Peter
- Commentary on 2 Peter
- Commentary on 1 John
- Commentary on 2 John
- Commentary on 3 John
- Commentary on Jude
. . . historians will find it helpful in demonstrating to students what early medieval exegesis was like. . . .
Theological Studies
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