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Catena Aurea: Matthew

Thomas Aquinas (compiler) · translated by John Henry Newman (editor) · c. 1263–1264; translation 1841

The Golden Chain on Matthew: Thomas Aquinas's verse-by-verse gathering of the Fathers, Greek and Latin, on the Gospel.

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CATENA AUREA: MATTHEW Thomas Aquinas (compiler)

Translated by John Henry Newman (editor). Date: c. 1263–1264; translation 1841. Public domain. Source: https://www.ccel.org/ccel/aquinas/catena1

Title: Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew Creator(s): Aquinas, Thomas, Saint (1225?-1274) Whiston, William (Translator) Print Basis: London: J.G.F. and J. Rivington, 1842 CCEL Subjects: All; Classic; Bibles; LC Call no: BS2555 LC Subjects:

The Bible

New Testament

Special parts of the New Testament

St. Thomas Aquinas

Catena Aurea (Golden Chain)

Volume I.

J.G.F. and J. Rivington London, 1842

Ver. 1. The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham.

Jerome, Ez, i. 5. Hier. Prolog. in Com. in Matt.: The face of a man' (in Ezekiel's vision) signifies Matthew, who accordingly opens his Gospel with the human genealogy of Christ.

Rabanus: By this exordium he shews that it is the birth of Christ according to the flesh that he has undertaken to narrate.

Pseudo-Chrys., Hom. in Matt., Hom. i: Matthew wrote for the Jews, and in Hebrew [ed. note: It seems to be the general witness of antiquity that there was a Hebrew copy of St. Matthew's Gospel, whether written before or after the Greek. This Hebrew copy was interpolated by the Ebionites.]; to them it was unnecessary to explain the divinity which they recognized; but necessary to unfold the mystery of the Incarnation. John wrote in Greek for the Gentiles who knew nothing of a Son of God. They required therefore to be told first, that the Son of God was God, then that this Deity was incarnate.

Rabanus: Though the genealogy occupies only a small part of the volume, he yet begins thus, "The book of the generation." For it is the manner of the Hebrews to name their books from that with which they open; as Genesis.

Gloss. Ordinaria: The full expression would be "This is the book of the generation;" but this is a usual ellipse; e.g. "The vision of Isaiah," for, This is the vision.'

"Generation," he says in the singular number, though there be many here given in succession, as it is for the sake of the one generation of Christ that the rest are here introduced.

Chrys., Hom. in Matt., Hom. ii: Or he therefore entitles it, "The book of the generation," because this is the sum of the whole dispensation, the root of all its blessings; viz. that God become man; for this once effected, all other things followed of course.

Rabanus: He says, "The book of the generation of Jesus Christ," because he knew it…

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Contents (66 sections)

  1. Opening
  2. Section (continued)
  3. Section (continued)
  4. Chapter 2
  5. Chapter 2 (continued)
  6. Chapter 3
  7. Chapter 3 (continued)
  8. Chapter 4
  9. Chapter 4 (continued)
  10. Chapter 5
  11. Chapter 5 (continued)
  12. Chapter 5 (continued)
  13. Chapter 5 (continued)
  14. Chapter 6
  15. Chapter 6 (continued)
  16. Chapter 6 (continued)
  17. Chapter 7
  18. Chapter 7 (continued)
  19. Chapter 8
  20. Chapter 8 (continued)
  21. Chapter 9
  22. Chapter 9 (continued)
  23. Chapter 10
  24. Chapter 10 (continued)
  25. Chapter 10 (continued)
  26. Chapter 10 (continued)
  27. Chapter 12
  28. Chapter 12 (continued)
  29. Chapter 12 (continued)
  30. Chapter 13
  31. Chapter 13 (continued)
  32. Chapter 13 (continued)
  33. Chapter 14
  34. Chapter 14 (continued)
  35. Chapter 15
  36. Chapter 15 (continued)
  37. Chapter 16
  38. Chapter 16 (continued)
  39. Chapter 17
  40. Chapter 17 (continued)
  41. Chapter 18
  42. Chapter 18 (continued)
  43. Chapter 19
  44. Chapter 19 (continued)
  45. Chapter 20
  46. Chapter 20 (continued)
  47. Chapter 21
  48. Chapter 21 (continued)
  49. Chapter 22
  50. Chapter 22 (continued)
  51. Chapter 23
  52. Chapter 23 (continued)
  53. Chapter 24
  54. Chapter 24 (continued)
  55. Chapter 24 (continued)
  56. Chapter 25
  57. Chapter 25 (continued)
  58. Chapter 26
  59. Chapter 26 (continued)
  60. Chapter 26 (continued)
  61. Chapter 26 (continued)
  62. Chapter 27
  63. Chapter 27 (continued)
  64. Chapter 27 (continued)
  65. Chapter 28
  66. Chapter 28 (continued)

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Thomas Aquinas (compiler). Catena Aurea: Matthew. Translated by John Henry Newman (editor). CCEL, c. 1263–1264; translation 1841. https://www.ccel.org/ccel/aquinas/catena1
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Thomas Aquinas (compiler). Catena Aurea: Matthew. Translated by John Henry Newman (editor), CCEL, c. 1263–1264; translation 1841. https://www.ccel.org/ccel/aquinas/catena1
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Thomas Aquinas (compiler) (c. 1263–1264; translation 1841). Catena Aurea: Matthew (John Henry Newman (editor), Trans.). CCEL. https://www.ccel.org/ccel/aquinas/catena1

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