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On my site I have been collecting commentaries of the Early Church Fathers and Doctors of the Church on a page, and I am up to 71 so far. Many of the commentaries are complete, but I have had to settle for some of them in limited review from google book search, but they do give access to a lot of material that you will not find on the internet, unless you buy them, and they are pricey! I even found St. Augustine’s commentary on Galatians, which I did not even know that it existed, until I found it on the book search. Some of the pages are missing, but most of it is there!
 
Very impressive! 👍

I thought it was funny that there were commentaries on Philemon that were 10 times longer than Philemon itself was.
 
Thanks! 😃 Do you find that the great bulk of English language translations of the Fathers (and their commentaries) were done in the 19th C.? Do you find that there are still some (or many) never translated into English? 😦
 
Thanks! Do you find that the great bulk of English language translations of the Fathers (and their commentaries) were done in the 19th C.? Do you find that there are still some (or many) never translated into English?
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Yes. There are many that are either in Latin, Greek, Syriac, or Armenian. The Ancient Christian Commentary series actually had to translate a number of the commentaries in order to publish them in English. There are some unpublished translations that are accessible but hard to find. I have an unpublished translation of St. Jerome’s commentary on Jonah and Daniel on my site. I would like to find more of those kinds, I constantly search for them on the internet. I would like to have access to some Greek commentaries of the Fathers that have not been translated, I would translate them myself and make them accessible, but they are hard to find.
 
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Yes. There are many that are either in Latin, Greek, Syriac, or Armenian. The Ancient Christian Commentary series actually had to translate a number of the commentaries in order to publish them in English. There are some unpublished translations that are accessible but hard to find. I have an unpublished translation of St. Jerome’s commentary on Jonah and Daniel on my site. I would like to find more of those kinds, I constantly search for them on the internet. I would like to have access to some Greek commentaries of the Fathers that have not been translated, I would translate them myself and make them accessible, but they are hard to find.
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That is GREAT! 😃 God Bless! 🙂
 
I have found access to the Greek texts of the Church Fathers, exactly what we had talked about. I am going to make a decision about what commentary to translate. I am very excited! Here is the awesome site, I can’t believe it! patrologia.ct.aegean.gr/PG_Migne/

I am open for suggestions about what commentary they would like to have translated from Greek to English.
 
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I have found access to the Greek texts of the Church Fathers, exactly what we had talked about. I am going to make a decision about what commentary to translate. I am very excited! Here is the awesome site, I can’t believe it! patrologia.ct.aegean.gr/PG_Migne/

I am open for suggestions about what commentary they would like to have translated from Greek to English.
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That IS an amazing list! :eek: I would be surprised if not a few of those items have NEVER been translated into English to date! Keep us posted! 🙂
 
I am very certain some of them have never been translated. I know The Catholic University of America has translated some of them, but many of these are very hard to find in English, or Greek for that matter, and are very pricey. My friends from my B-Greek email list hooked me up with this site. I asked and sure received, beyond my expectations!
 
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I am very certain some of them have never been translated. I know The Catholic University of America has translated some of them, but many of these are very hard to find in English, or Greek for that matter, and are very pricey. My friends from my B-Greek email list hooked me up with this site. I asked and sure received, beyond my expectations!
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That’s interesting. If the Catholic University translates some of these works, do they get published?
 
That’s interesting. If the Catholic University translates some of these works, do they get published?
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Absolutely! They have the best on the market, unfortunately they are not always easy to find, and they are expensive. I have quite a bit of them that I bought for 10 cents a piece when my public library was deleting many of their old books. I hit the jack pot! But there are many that I don’t have, especially some fo the Bible commentaries that have been published by them recently. I have bought some, such as Oecumenius’ Revelation commentary. Here is their link. cuapress.cua.edu/BOOKS/Supplementary/CTCindex.cfm
 
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Absolutely! They have the best on the market, unfortunately they are not always easy to find, and they are expensive. I have quite a bit of them that I bought for 10 cents a piece when my public library was deleting many of their old books. I hit the jack pot! But there are many that I don’t have, especially some fo the Bible commentaries that have been published by them recently. I have bought some, such as Oecumenius’ Revelation commentary. Here is their link. cuapress.cua.edu/BOOKS/Supplementary/CTCindex.cfm
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I am astonished! I had no idea the CUA had done so much for translation already! It has really opened up a major resource I had no idea existed! 😃
 
Their translations are very readable and clear, much better than the version that you find on New Advent, that is from the Hendrickson Publishers, edited by Philip Schaff, who is not always Catholic friendly in his footnotes.
 
Great sources for commentaries guys. These are always great to have reference to.
 
Thank you! I have been working very hard to compile them.

By the way, I have started translating Theodoret’s commentary on Jonah. Right now I am about half way through his introduction. I will occasionally put what I have on my site as I go. This will take me a while to complete. The only English translation of it is by the CUA Press, that I know of. Robert Hill may have done it too. All I have is the Greek text.
 
Wow! I just commented on another thread yesterday about having never read any of the ECF’s because I didn’t know where to find them. Thanks!
 
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I have found access to the Greek texts of the Church Fathers, exactly what we had talked about. I am going to make a decision about what commentary to translate. I am very excited! Here is the awesome site, I can’t believe it! patrologia.ct.aegean.gr/PG_Migne/

I am open for suggestions about what commentary they would like to have translated from Greek to English.
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wow there are so many to choose from. Having never read the works of any ECF’s, with the exception of part of Augustine’s Confessions, what would you recommend? I was thinking maybe St. Chrysostom or Origen, but are these good for someone just getting into theology or would I just not understand them?
 
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wow there are so many to choose from. Having never read the works of any ECF’s, with the exception of part of Augustine’s Confessions, what would you recommend? I was thinking maybe St. Chrysostom or Origen, but are these good for someone just getting into theology or would I just not understand them?
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I am glad that you are interested in the Fathers. That page that I gave on this thread is on their Bible commentaries only, here is my page of their additional writings, which I believe is the biggest collection on the internet. litteralchristianlibrary.wetpaint.com/page/Early+Church+Fathers+Collection

I don’t think it is humanly possible for anyone to read all the Fathers writings, it is 850 plus years of them. To start out with, I personally love St. Augustine. I remember when I first discovered the Fathers, I ran onto St. Ambrose, and I was blown away. I was fresh in the ministry as a Southern Baptist, I had never heard of the Church Fathers before. All I knew was this Ambrose guy was a very ancient Christian writer, and as I read his writings on the Sacraments/Mysteries, I realized this ancient writer was not a Southern Baptist, but a Catholic! That started a journey that eventually lead me to the Church!

The Apostlic Fathers are also very very intereesting, such as St. Clement of Rome, St. Ignatius, St. Polycarp, St. Barnabas, St. Hermas, St. Justin Martyr, St. Papias, etc. These are men who were contempories of the 12 Apostles or at least riding on their coat tails.

Also, my recommendation when reading the Fathers is not always just reading from cover to cover, that can wear you out. I would use the index and find what topic you are interested in. If you don’t have a printed version and are using the computer only, then just give me some details of what you are interested in and I can help you find where the Fathers write about them.
 
I think that’s why I put down St. Augustine and never picked it up again; great stuff, but looong. Hmm well I also come from a very strong Southern Baptist background (my parents taught Sunday school at the church) so I am pretty well-versed in the Bible. I’m actually wanting to study Theology and maybe discern a vocation to the diaconate if not the priesthood, so eventually I’m sure I will be very familiar with the fathers!
 
I think that’s why I put down St. Augustine and never picked it up again; great stuff, but looong. Hmm well I also come from a very strong Southern Baptist background (my parents taught Sunday school at the church) so I am pretty well-versed in the Bible. I’m actually wanting to study Theology and maybe discern a vocation to the diaconate if not the priesthood, so eventually I’m sure I will be very familiar with the fathers!
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I understand, the Fathers can wear you out if one thinks they will read their writings from cover to cover. St. Augustine quotes Scripture 43,000 times in his writings, so that should tell you how much that man wrote.I love the City of God that he wrote, it has some of the best insights, 2nd only to Sacred Scripture, but I would never recommend reading from the beginning to the end. I would recommend using the idex to find what I am interested in and go from there. He writes some of the best stuff on Creation, 1000 year reign, Resurrection, etc etc in the City of God.

I totally wish you well with your vocation! That is wonderful!
 
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