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Fragments of a Greek commentary on the Books of Kings were found at Tours in 1941. Out of 291 commentaries 275 have been lost in Greek and very little is preserved in Latin. Of all these only small fragments have survived in catenae, Biblical manuscripts and quotations by later ecclesiastical authors. VI, xxiv, 2), fifteen on Luke, five on Galatians, three on Ephesians, besides others on Philippians, Colossians, Thessalonians, Hebrews, Titus and Philemon. Of the works which he composed, the greater part have been lost, as Quasten indicates: “Origen also composed thirteen books on Genesis, forty-six on forty-one Psalms, thirty on Isaias, five that Eusebius knew of ( Hist. He emphasized the threefold method of interpreting the Scriptures: “The individual ought to portray the ideas of Holy Scripture in a three-fold manner upon his own soul.for as man consists of a body and soul and spirit, so in the same way does Scripture, which has been arranged to be given by God for the salvation of man.” Origen wrote more extensively on the Bible than any other writer in the early centuries of the Christian Church. Origen believed that the Bible was written under the direct inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and held to the unity of the Scriptures, taking every part of the Bible as a word from God. In the same period (185-274) lived the greatest Biblical scholar of the Early Church, Origen. Goodspeed refers to him as “the foremost figure of Greek Christianity in the West.” Hippolytus wrote about forty different works, including commentaries on Genesis, Psalms, the Song of Solomon, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Revelation, and others. It has survived only in fragments, in Latin, Syriac, Coptic, Arabic, Armenian, etc. 204), which is recognized as the earliest extant exegetical treatise of the Christian Church. an important commentary on Daniel was written by Hippolytus (c. The content of this book is known only by some quotations from it in Origen’s commentary on John. John by the heretic Heracleon, a follower of Valentinus, founder of an influential Gnostic sect in the early part of the 2nd cent.

The earliest Christian commentary is that on the Gospel of St. 484-531), lists 115 titles down to the 8th cent., and there were others on the gospels, Acts, and general epistles.ġ. Turner, in a lengthy article on “Greek Patristic Commentaries on the Pauline Epistles” (Hastings DB, vol. later Professor Guthrie in his New Testament Introduction listed more than 800 titles, most of which were published since the lists of McLintock and Strong and of Spurgeon.Īncient commentaries were numerous also.

About that time Spurgeon (1876) published his famous Commenting and Commentaries in which he listed 1437 titles. There are also separate lists of commentaries on all the books of the Bible e.g., 105 commentaries on the Book of Daniel. In the article on the NT 114 more are listed. and a half later, in an article on “Commentary,” McLintock and Strong’s Encyclopedia (1867-1881) contains a “chronological conspectus of professed commentaries on the whole canonical Scriptures” listing 165 commentaries covering the entire Bible. In addition, there are hundreds of titles on related subjects, which occupy thirty-two columns of text. In Calmet’s Dictionary of the Holy Bible (1722) at least 1400 titles are listed, some of them extending to many volumes.

No attempt has been made to estimate the number of commentaries that have been written on the Bible. Some, like that of Skinner on Genesis in the International Critical Commentary series, are devoted almost entirely to the discussion of grammatical and critical matters in the original text others, like that of Marcus Dods on Genesis in the Expositor’s Bible are practical and inspirational. Commentaries vary radically in purpose and in kind. The actual nature of a commentary depends on a number of factors, such as the attitude of the writer toward the Scriptures, his knowledge of the original languages, the purpose of his writing the commentary, and the subjects of his major interest.

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While such a work is not a mere collection of sermons, an extensive series of homilies, such as those of Chrysostom, may approximate a commentary. has given birth to an extensive list of commentaries, but no book has produced anything like the vast amount of commentaries on the Holy Scriptures. Every great work that is included in world lit.