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The biblical text surrounded by a catena, in Minuscule 556. A catena (from Latin catena, a chain) is a form of biblical commentary, verse by verse, made up entirely of excerpts from earlier Biblical commentators, each introduced with the name of the author, and with such minor adjustments of words to allow the whole to form a continuous commentary.
A collection of glosses from the Church Fathers on the Gospels (Catena aurea) Systematic works (Summa Theologiae, Summa contra Gentiles, and commentary on Peter Lombard's Sentences) Biblical commentaries on Job, Psalms and Isaiah, Canticles and Jeremiah, John, Matthew, and on the epistles of Paul Nine exegeses of Scriptural books; Liturgical works
It was in Orvieto that Thomas completed Summa contra Gentiles, which was followed by the Catena aurea [11] and minor works produced for Pope Urban IV such as the liturgy for the newly created feast of Corpus Christi and the Contra errores graecorum. [5] Parts of the text have survived in Aquinas's autograph, kept in the Vatican Library as Lat ...
Portrait of Thomas Aquinas by Fra Bartolomeo (1472–1517). De aeternitate mundi, contra murmurantes (lit. ' On the eternity of the world, against the murmurers ') is a treatise by the Doctor of the Catholic Church Saint Thomas Aquinas regarding the possibility of an ever-existing universe. The work is usually dated around 1270 and is ...
His work was called Postillæ, i. e. post illa (verba textus), because the explanation followed the words of the text. Thomas Aquinas (thirteenth century) left commentaries on Job, Psalms, Isaiah, Epistles of St. Paul, and was the author of the well-known Catena Aurea on the Gospels.
In St. Thomas Aquinas' Catena Aurea, he compiles the comments of some of the Church Fathers on this passage, [6] who point out that like the treasure hidden in the field, the Gospel comes without cost, and is open to all – but to truly possess heavenly riches, one must be willing to give up the world to buy it. The Fathers also identify that ...
Anton Kirchweger (died 8 February 1746) [1] He was the editor or the author of the influential German hermetical book Aurea Catena Homeri (Golden Chain of Homer); Aurea Catena Homeri oder, Eine Beschreibung von dem Ursprung der Natur und natürlichen Dingen (The Golden Chain of Homer, or A Description of Nature and Natural Things).
Thomas Aquinas OP (/ ə ˈ k w aɪ n ə s / ⓘ ə-KWY-nəs; Italian: Tommaso d'Aquino, lit. 'Thomas of Aquino'; c. 1225 – 7 March 1274) was an Italian [6] Dominican friar and priest, the foremost Scholastic thinker, [7] as well one of the most influential philosophers and theologians in the Western tradition. [8]