The Gospel of Matthew stands out as a favorite biblical text among patristic commentators. The patristic commentary tradition on Matthew begins with Origen's pioneering twenty-five-volume commentary on the First Gospel in the mid-third century. In the Latin-speaking West, where commentaries did not appear until about a century later, the first commentary on Matthew was written by Hilary of Poitiers in the mid-fourth century. From that point the First Gospel became one of the texts most frequently commented on in patristic exegesis. Outstanding examples are Jerome's four-volume commentary and the valuable but anonymous and incomplete Opus imperfectum in Matthaeum. Then there are the Greek catena fragments derived from commentaries by Theodore of Heraclea, Apollinaris of Laodicea, Theodore of Mopsuestia and Cyril of Alexandria. The ancient homilies also provide ample comment, including John Chrysostom's ninety homilies and Chromatius of Aquileia's fifty-nine homilies on the Gospel of Matthew. In addition, there are various Sunday and feast-day homilies from towering figures such as Augustine and Gregory the Great, as well as other fathers. This rich abundance of patristic comment, much of it presented here in English translation for the first time by editor Manlio Simonetti, provides a bountiful and varied feast of ancient interpretation of the First Gospel.
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I was hoping to see what the ancient Church thought about the end times, which are described in chapter 24. All I got was a bunch of off the wall allegories that applied to the then here and now. One example is the farmer's field really means the Catholic Church. Another is the person on the house top had a closer relationship to God than people standing on the ground.
I had better luck on volume XII on Revelation. The universal belief was that the second coming and resurrection would occur in the second half of the seven years.
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- Forty Gospel Homilies: Gregory the Great (Cistercian Studies) by David Hurst on 9 pages
- The Prescription Against Heretics by Tertullian on page 115
- Latin Christianity (Early Church Fathers) by Alexander Roberts in Front Matter
- Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Penguin Classics) by Bede on page 318
- The Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus on page 5
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