The Twelve Prophets: Volume 14Alberto Ferreiro, Thomas C. Oden "And beginning with Moses and all the prophets, [the risen Jesus] interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself" (Lk 24:27). The church fathers mined the Old Testament throughout for prophetic utterances regarding the Messiah, but few books yielded as much messianic ore as the Twelve Prophets, sometimes known as the Minor Prophets because of the relative brevity of their writings. Encouraged by the example of the New Testament writers, the church fathers found numerous parallels between the Gospels and the prophetic books. Among the events foretold, they found not only the flight into Egypt after the nativity, the passion, and resurrection of Christ, and the outpouring of the Spirit at Pentecost, but also Judas's act of betrayal, the earthquake at Jesus' death and the rending of the temple veil. Detail upon detail brimmed with significance for Christian doctrine, including baptism and the Eucharist as well as the relation between the covenants. In this rich and vital resource you will find excerpts, some translated here into English for the first time, from more than thirty church fathers, ranging in time from Clement of Rome, Justin Martyr, and Irenaeus (late first and early second centuries) to Gregory the Great, Braulio of Saragossa, and Bede the Venerable (late sixth to early eighth centuries). Geographically the sources range from the great Cappadocians—Basil the Great, Gregory of Nazianzus, Gregory of Nyssa—John Chrysostom, Ephrem the Syrian, and Hippolytus in the East, to Ambrose, Augustine, Cyprian, and Tertullian in the West, and Origen, Cyril, and Pachomius in Egypt. This Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture volume is a treasure trove out of which Christians may bring riches both old and new in their understanding of these ancient texts. |
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... Apostles, translated by Lawrence T. Martin, Cistercian Studies 117, ©1989; Bede the Venerable, Homilies on the Gospels (Book One): Advent to Lent, translated by Lawrence T. Martin and David Hurst, Cistercian Studies 110, ©1991; Bede the ...
... apostles, the church fathers and Jews the very word of God. Numerous Christians—Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant—and Jews still believe this today, regardless of the radical claims in certain quarters of the modern academic community. The ...
... apostles, most especially by Paul in his epistles. The church fathers appropriated this theme and elaborated it with great vigor and creativity. An important qualifier, not lost to the church fathers, needs to be mentioned. The apostle ...
... Apostles, Paul's epistles, 1 Peter, 1 John and Revelation. The church fathers—as is evident from the volumes of the ACCS series, which contain representative and consensual texts—used various exegetical approaches to derive from the Old ...
... Apostles' Creed. Furthermore, even as Jonah survived the whale and Elijah survived the fiery chariot, so Christ survived the tomb. The Fathers typologically connected the ship and the whale of Jonah 3:1-4 to the tree of crucifixion and ...
Contents
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Joel | 57 |
Amos | 83 |
Obadiah | 117 |
Jonah | 128 |
Micah | 149 |
Nahum | 178 |
Habakkuk | 186 |
Early Christian Writers and the Documents Cited | 314 |
Biographical Sketches Short Descriptions of Select Anonymous Works | 322 |
Timeline of Writers of the Patristic Period | 345 |
Bibliography of Works in Original Languages | 352 |
Bibliography of Works in English Translation | 361 |
AuthorsWritings Index | 370 |
Subject Index | 371 |
Scripture Index | 378 |
Zephaniah | 207 |
Haggai | 219 |
Zechariah | 230 |
Malachi | 283 |
About the Editor | 383 |
Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture | 384 |
More Titles from InterVarsity Press | 385 |