Bible Commentaries by Church Fathers

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Can anyone suggest commentaries (order of preference: Gospels, entire New Testament, entire Bible) by the Church Fathers?

I know of Aquinas’s Catena aurea, but I haven’t found an online version of Luke or John, only Matthew and Mark. This being the year of Luke (or John during the Scrutinies in Lent) the Catena is of limited usefulness (when the Gospels share a pericope). I’m not necessarily looking for homilies on Scripture, but I suppose they’ll do as well.
 
newadvent.org/fathers/

try over there.

the best commentarys of the bible is the St Jerome commentary.
they are about 7 huge books about the bible I found them in spanish on my catholic library dunno if there is a english version of it.
its quite expensvie but those books are the best ones on commentarys about the entire bible.

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St. John Chrysostom has commentaries on the Gospel of Matthew (my favorite) and the Gospel of John. Also has commentaries on some of the epistles.

Augustine has a commentary on the Gospel of John and some on the Gospel of Matthew. Also on some epistles.

These are lengthy commentaries that go thru verse by verse. I really like them. They are part of a 38 volume set of works by the early church fathers. Some stores will let you buy individual volumes. I don’t know of any online sites where you can have access to these commentaries. If you are close to a large Catholic library, they may have the volumes.

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I much like the “Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture series.” Unfortunately, the volumes aren’t cheap and there is at least one volume for each book of the New Testament, so the cost could add up. It has excerpts from the Fathers and other ancient Christian writers dealing with each line in order in the book being covered.
There are other sets available (also expensive), particularly the Scripture commentaries in the Fathers of the Church series (which the last poster mentioned), as well as the Scripture commentaries found in the sets: “Ante-Nicene Fathers” and “Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers.” If there is a library near you with such books, perhaps you could go and read them there. I am a writer and have long used and greatly appreciated these publications.
 
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I much like the “Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture series.” Unfortunately, the volumes aren’t cheap and there is at least one volume for each book of the New Testament, so the cost could add up. It has excerpts from the Fathers and other ancient Christian writers dealing with each line in order in the book being covered.
There are other sets available (also expensive), particularly the Scripture commentaries in the Fathers of the Church series (which the last poster mentioned), as well as the Scripture commentaries found in the sets: “Ante-Nicene Fathers” and “Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers.” If there is a library near you with such books, perhaps you could go and read them there. I am a writer and have long used and greatly appreciated these publications.
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I get the “Ante-Nicene Fathers” and “Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers” content from CCEL.org, which has them online in various formats free of charge.
 
The Haydock Catholic Bible commentary sometimes makes reference to Church Fathers. here. This site is a work in progress; at this time the entire New Testament and about half of the Old Testament is available.
 
japhy said:
Can anyone suggest commentaries (order of preference: Gospels, entire New Testament, entire Bible) by the Church Fathers?

I know of Aquinas’s Catena aurea, but I haven’t found an online version of Luke or John, only Matthew and Mark. This being the year of Luke (or John during the Scrutinies in Lent) the Catena is of limited usefulness (when the Gospels share a pericope). I’m not necessarily looking for homilies on Scripture, but I suppose they’ll do as well.
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You might be interested in this website–Fatherseyes. You can sign up to get weekly ECF’s remarks on the Sunday Gospel.

thegodpod.com/mailman/listinfo/fatherseyes_thegodpod.com
 
japhy said:
Can anyone suggest commentaries (order of preference: Gospels, entire New Testament, entire Bible) by the Church Fathers?

I know of Aquinas’s Catena aurea, but I haven’t found an online version of Luke or John, only Matthew and Mark. This being the year of Luke (or John during the Scrutinies in Lent) the Catena is of limited usefulness (when the Gospels share a pericope). I’m not necessarily looking for homilies on Scripture, but I suppose they’ll do as well.
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japhy,
Commentaries are available on line. Why don’t you compare them, church Father’s and others. See what you come up with.
Concerning Jn.2:5 Jesus was reminding Mary that his time- table was to carry out his Father’s busineess,just as he remined her when they found him in the temple years earlier.
Turning the water into wine was the first miracle Jesus performed.

Peace,
parkly
 
parkly said:
japhy,
Commentaries are available on line. Why don’t you compare them, church Father’s and others. See what you come up with.
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Well, yes, I know they are, but I only know of some. I’m hoping people can point me to resources I haven’t been able to find yet. Aquinas had access to lots of commentaries; hopefully his sources are still available today.
parkly said:
Concerning Jn.2:5 Jesus was reminding Mary that his time- table was to carry out his Father’s busineess,just as he remined her when they found him in the temple years earlier.
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I include John 2:5 in my signature because I believe that the intercession of Mary consists primarily in her reminding us to do whatever Jesus tells us to do. Mary doesn’t give us any new commandments, she doesn’t come up with something new for us, she points us, always, to her son.
 
For an almost complete delivery of the Cardinal Newman team translation, see this site. Warning: there are scanning artifacts in this online version, though it’s still wonderfully useful.

For someone who’s tracking the Sunday Gospels with the Catena, see: catenaaurea.blogspot.com (the author appears to be correcting the online version and seems at time to be using the Latin to help update the mid-19th century translation)
 
Cy_Nestor said:
For an almost complete delivery of the Cardinal Newman team translation, see this site. Warning: there are scanning artifacts in this online version, though it’s still wonderfully useful.

For someone who’s tracking the Sunday Gospels with the Catena, see: catenaaurea.blogspot.com (the author appears to be correcting the online version and seems at time to be using the Latin to help update the mid-19th century translation)
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Whoa. For your first post, this rocks. Thanks a million.
 
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