PATROLOGY

COMPLETE COURSE

OR UNIVERSAL, INTEGRAL, UNIFORM, CONVENIENT, AND ECONOMICAL LIBRARY OF ALL THE HOLY FATHERS, DOCTORS, AND ECCLESIASTICAL WRITERS,

WHETHER LATIN OR GREEK,
WHO FLOURISHED FROM THE APOSTOLIC AGE TO THE TIME OF INNOCENT III (YEAR 1216) FOR THE LATINS, AND THE COUNCIL OF FLORENCE (YEAR 1439) FOR THE GREEKS:

CHRONOLOGICAL RE-EDITING

OF ALL MONUMENTS OF CATHOLIC TRADITION THAT HAVE SURVIVED THROUGH THE FIRST FIFTEEN CENTURIES OF THE CHURCH,

Very diligently corrected according to the most accurate editions, collated among themselves and with several manuscript codices; continuously illustrated with dissertations, commentaries, and various readings; enriched with all works and further expanded by newly discovered texts; adorned with particular analytical indices following individual volumes or authors of some significance, distinguished by a top margin, with the text of individual pages properly arranged, and also with titles for each page; and amplified with works that are considered doubtful but possess some authority in relation to ecclesiastical tradition:

Enriched and further expanded with alphabetical, chronological, statistical, synthetic, analytical, and analogical indices of authors as well as works, regarding every point of religion, dogmatic, moral, liturgical, canonical, disciplinary, historical, and all others without any exception; but especially with two immense and general indices: one of subjects, by which, when consulted, whatever each Father—and indeed every single one of the Fathers, without omitting even one—has said about any theme of Sacred Scripture or profane subject matter may be seen at a single glance; the other of Sacred Scripture, from which it is obvious for the reader to discover which Fathers, and in which places of their works, have commented on individual verses of individual books of Holy Scripture, from the first of Genesis to the last of the 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 the correction, the variety and number of the works republished, the form of the volumes, which is very convenient and consistently similar throughout the entire course of the Patrology, the low price, and especially this collection, unique, methodical, and chronological, of six hundred fragments and short works hitherto scattered here and there, but first gathered in our library from works and manuscripts pertaining to all ages, places, languages, and forms.

LATIN SERIES,

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

UNDER THE CARE OF J.-P. MIGNE,

Of the Universal Library of the Clergy,
EDITOR OF COMPLETE COURSES IN INDIVIDUAL BRANCHES OF ECCLESIASTICAL SCIENCE.

LATIN PATROLOGY, VOLUME XXIII.

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AT THE GARNIER BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS AND SUCCESSORS TO J.-P. MIGNE
AT THE STREET CALLED: AVENUE DU MAINE, 189, FORMERLY CHAUSSÉE DU MAINE, 127.
1883