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PATROLOGY

COMPLETE COURSE

UNIVERSAL, COMPLETE, UNIFORM, CONVENIENT, AND ECONOMICAL LIBRARY

OF ALL THE HOLY FATHERS, DOCTORS, AND ECCLESIASTICAL WRITERS,

WHO

FLOURISHED FROM THE APOSTOLIC AGE TO THE TIME OF INNOCENT III;

CHRONOLOGICAL REPRINT

OF ALL THE MONUMENTS OF CATHOLIC TRADITION THAT HAVE EXISTED THROUGH THE FIRST TWELVE CENTURIES OF THE CHURCH,

ACCORDING TO THE MOST ACCURATE EDITIONS, COLLATED WITH ONE ANOTHER AND WITH VARIOUS MANUSCRIPT CODICES, MOST DILIGENTLY CORRECTED; CONTINUOUSLY ILLUSTRATED BY DISSERTATIONS, COMMENTARIES, AND VARIOUS READINGS; AUGMENTED BY ALL THE WORKS DISCOVERED AFTER THE MOST AMPLE EDITIONS PRODUCED IN THE LAST THREE CENTURIES; EQUIPPED WITH PARTICULAR ANALYTICAL INDICES FOLLOWING INDIVIDUAL VOLUMES OR AUTHORS OF ANY SIGNIFICANCE; ADORNED WITH CHAPTERS PROPERLY DISPOSED WITHIN THE TEXT ITSELF, AS WELL AS TITLES ON THE UPPER MARGIN OF EACH PAGE DISTINGUISHING AND SIGNIFYING THE UNDERLYING MATERIAL; AMPLIFIED BY WORKS BOTH DOUBTFUL AND APOCRYPHAL, WHICH NEVERTHELESS POSSESS SOME AUTHORITY IN RELATION TO ECCLESIASTICAL TRADITION; ENRICHED WITH MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED INDICES OF AUTHORS AS WELL AS WORKS, ALPHABETICAL, CHRONOLOGICAL, STATISTICAL, SYNTHETIC, ANALYTICAL, AND ANALOGICAL, CONCERNING EVERY POINT OF RELIGION, DOGMATIC, MORAL, LITURGICAL, CANONICAL, DISCIPLINARY, HISTORICAL, AND ALL OTHERS WITHOUT EXCEPTION; BUT ESPECIALLY TWO IMMENSE AND GENERAL INDICES, NAMELY THE FIRST OF SUBJECTS, BY CONSULTING WHICH ONE MAY SEE AT A GLANCE WHATEVER NOT ONLY SUCH AND SUCH A FATHER, BUT EVEN EACH OF THE FATHERS WITHOUT A SINGLE OMISSION, HAS WRITTEN ON ANY TOPIC; THE SECOND OF HOLY SCRIPTURE, FROM WHICH IT IS OBVIOUS FOR THE READER TO DISCOVER WHICH FATHERS AND IN WHICH PLACES OF THEIR WORKS THEY HAVE COMMENTED UPON INDIVIDUAL VERSES OF INDIVIDUAL BOOKS OF HOLY SCRIPTURE, FROM THE FIRST OF GENESIS TO THE LAST OF APOCALYPSE, THE MOST ACCURATE EDITION, EASILY PREFERABLE TO ALL OTHERS, IF ONE CONSIDERS THE CLARITY OF THE CHARACTERS, THE QUALITY OF THE PAPER, THE INTEGRITY OF THE TEXT, THE PERFECTION OF CORRECTION, THE VARIETY AND NUMBER OF WORKS REVIEWED, THE VERY CONVENIENT FORM OF THE VOLUMES WHICH REMAINS CONSTANTLY SIMILAR THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE COURSE OF THE PATROLOGY, THE MODESTY OF THE PRICE, AND ESPECIALLY THIS COLLECTION, BEING SINGLE, METHODICAL, AND CHRONOLOGICAL, OF SIX HUNDRED FRAGMENTS AND SHORT WORKS HITHERTO SCATTERED HERE AND THERE, BUT FIRST BROUGHT TOGETHER IN OUR LIBRARY FROM WORKS AND MANUSCRIPTS PERTAINING TO ALL AGES, PLACES, LANGUAGES, AND FORMS.

FIRST SERIES,

IN WHICH THE FATHERS, DOCTORS, AND WRITERS OF THE LATIN CHURCH APPEAR, FROM TERTULLIAN TO GREGORY THE GREAT.

UNDER THE CARE OF J.-P. MIGNE,

EDITOR OF COMPLETE COURSES IN INDIVIDUAL BRANCHES OF ECCLESIASTICAL SCIENCE.

VOLUME VII OF THE PATROLOGY.

SECOND AND LAST VOLUME OF LACTANTIUS.

APPENDICES TO THE WRITINGS OF THE HOLY FATHERS MARCELLINUS, MARCELLUS, EUSEBIUS, AND MELCHIADES, WHO ARE REMEMBERED IN THE SIXTH VOLUME.

PARIS, PRINTED BY VRAYET,

IN THE STREET CALLED D'AMBOISE, NEAR THE BARRIÈRE D'ENFER,

OR PETIT-MONTROUGE.

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