Commentary on the Seven Catholic Epistles

by Saint Bede the Venerable

Publisher:

Cistercian Publications

, 1985

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.

Key Features

• 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.

Contents

• 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

Praise for Commentary on the Seven Catholic Epistles

. . . historians will find it helpful in demonstrating to students what early medieval exegesis was like. . . .

Theological Studies

Product Details

• Title: The Commentary on the Seven Catholic Epistles of Bede the Venerable
• Author: Saint Bede the Venerable
• Series: Cistercian Studies Series
• Volume: No. 82
• Publisher: Cistercian Publications
• Print Publication Date: 1985
• Logos Release Date: 2022
• Pages: 253
• Era: era:byzantine
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Bible. N.T. Catholic Epistles › Commentaries; Bible. N.T. James › Commentaries; Bible. N.T. 1 Peter › Commentaries; Bible. N.T. 2 Peter › Commentaries; Bible. N.T. 1 John › Commentaries; Bible. N.T. 2 John › Commentaries; Bible. N.T. 3 John › Commentaries; Bible. N.T. Jude › Commentaries
• ISBNs: 9780879079826, 0879079827, 0879078820, 9780879078829
• Resource ID: LLS:CMMSVNCTHLPSTLS
• Resource Type: Bible Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:25:19Z

About Saint Bede the Venerable

Bede, also referred to as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede, was a monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth, today part of Sunderland, England, and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul’s, in modern Jarrow, both in the Kingdom of Northumbria. Bede’s monastery had access to a superb library which included works by Eusebius and Orosius among many others.