James 1 2 Peter 1 3 John Jude Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture New Testament Volume XI 1st edition by Gerald Bray, Thomas Oden ISBN 1579582923 9781579582920

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Because the Catholic Epistles focus on orthodox faith and morals, the Fathers drew on them as a means of defense against the rising challenge of heretics. Many of the Fathers saw in these letters anticipatory attacks on Marcion and strong defenses against the Arians. They did so quite naturally because in their view truth was eternal and deviations from it had existed from the beginning.

Above all, the Fathers found in the Catholic Epistles a manual for spiritual warfare, counsel for the faithful in the cosmic struggle between good and evil. In them was sound instruction in the ways of self-sacrifice, generosity, and humility, through which the cosmic forces could be defeated.

Allusions to these letters go back as far as Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, and Tertullian, but the first commentary derives from Clement of Alexandria. Didymus the Blind was the next significant Greek-speaking commentator, though his commentary is fully extant only in Latin translation. Many of the comments from the early centuries have been passed on to us through Latin catenae, or chain commentaries, in which a later commentator collected comments from a variety of sources and chained them together in a fashion much like that of the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture in English. Among Latin commentators on these letters, pride of place must be given to Bede the Venerable.

This volume opens up a treasure house of ancient wisdom that allows these faithful witnesses, some appearing here in English translation for the first time, to speak with eloquence and intellectual acumen to the church today.

James, 1-2 Peter, 1-3 John, Jude Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture: New Testament, Volume XI 1st Table of contents:

General Introduction

A Guide to Using This Commentary

Abbreviations

Introduction to the Catholic Epistles

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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

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Appendix

• Early Christian Writers and the Documents Cited

Chronology

Biographical Sketches

Authors/Writings Index

Subject Index

Scripture Index

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