Selected Theological Library

Chapter nine, which is the last, provides knowledge of homiletic writers. Since these are of diverse kinds, I have recorded them distinctly. The first place is occupied by those works which look to the ancient age and differ in such a way that some explain the sermons of the ancients, others encompass the homilies of the fathers, both Greek and Latin, and others exhibit the homiletic libraries of the fathers. There follow writings on the homiletic matter of the middle age, which indeed explain the origin of the evangelical and epistolary pericopae selected scripture readings just as they do the postils collections of sermon commentaries on biblical texts and which comprehend the sacred sermons of that time.