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The Commentary of Origen on the Gospel of St Matthew 1 by Origen, Ronald E. Heine is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Commentary of Origen on the Gospel of St Matthew 1 about?
"Origen was the greatest intellectual in the third century church, and the most influential of all the Greek Church Fathers. His writings covered many different subjects, including commentaries on most of the books of the New Testament and many of the Old Testament. Late in his life, he wrote a Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew. This was the first commentary ever written on this Gospel so far as we know. It covered the entire Gospel in twenty-five books. Only eight of these books have been preserved in the Greek language in which Origen wrote. A Latin translation made in the sixth century has preserved the contents of several additional books. There are, furthermore, numerous fragments from the commentary preserved in ancient writings. Of this mass of material, only five of the eight books presereved in Greek have ever been translated into English, plus one fragment. Thes translations were done in the late nineteenth century by the Rev. John Patrick. This new translation, therefore, is the first translation into English of the entirety of the Greek and Latin remains of this important commentary, including most of the fragments. The translation is in modern English and includes b
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Origen, Ronald E. Heine
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780199669080
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Christian, Bible, Religion
