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The Apocalypse or Book of Revelation is one of the most frequently
discussed books of the biblical canon and arguably one of the most
difficult to interpret. This volume contains three texts as
examples of late ancient Christian interpretation of its intriguing
visions. It also includes a comprehensive introduction to each text
by its respective translator. Brief Explanations of the Apocalypse
by Cassiodorus (c. 580), translated by Francis X. Gumerlock from
Latin and published in English for the first time in this volume,
served as an introduction to the Book of Revelation for
Cassiodorus's students at the Vivarium, a monastery in southern
Italy. Cassiodorus divided the Apocalypse into 33 sections,
corresponding to the age of Jesus at his Passion, and expressed his
belief that John's visions were revelations of the end of the
world, including the Second Coming of Christ for judgment, the
defeat of the Antichrist, the general resurrection, and the arrival
of the heavenly Kingdom. Testimonies of Gregory the Great on the
Apocalypse, translated from Latin by Mark DelCogliano and also
published here for the first time in English, is a collection of 55
excerpts on the Apocalypse from the writings of St. Gregory the
Great (d. 604) compiled by an anonymous author. Drawn mainly from
Gregory's Moralia, but also from his Book on Pastoral Care and
homilies, the excerpts, which are arranged from Revelation 1.4 to
22.17, illustrate Gregory's grammatical exegesis of the Apocalypse,
his interpretation of various figures in the Apocalypse, and his
attempt to reconcile certain passages in the Apocalypse with
seemingly contradictory texts from other parts of Scripture. The
anonymous Greek Scholia on the Apocalypse contains 39 exegetical
notes on chapters 1-14 of the Apocalypse, which reveal influences
of Origen and Didymus the Blind, among others. The notes provide
"spiritual" interpretations of the various passages and give
attention to the interpretation of certain words that appear in the
Book of Revelation. This new translation from the Greek by T. C.
Schmidt utilizes all the Greek editions. Furthermore, its
introductory matter contains updates on the Scholia from the latest
scholarship and compares each scholion with interpretations found
in various patristic authors, mainly of Alexandrian heritage.
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Exposition of the Apocalypse (Hardcover)
Tyconius of Carthage; Translated by Francis X. Gumerlock; Introduction by David C. Robinson
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The Exposition of the Apocalypse by Tyconius of Carthage (fl. 380)
was pivotal in the history of interpretation of the Book of
Revelation. While expositors of the second and third centuries
viewed the Apocalypse of John, or Book of Revelation, as mainly
about the time of Antichrist and the end of the world, in the late
fourth century Tyconius interpreted John's visions as figurative of
the struggles facing the Church throughout the entire period
between the Incarnation and the Second Coming of Christ. Tyconius's
"ecclesiastical" reading of the Apocalypse was highly regarded by
early medieval commentators like Caesarius of Arles, Primasius of
Hadrumetum, Bede, and Beatus of Liebana, who often quoted from
Tyconius's Exposition in their own Apocalypse commentaries.
Unfortunately no complete manuscript of the Exposition by Tyconius
has survived. A number of recent scholars, however, believed that a
large portion of his Exposition could be reconstructed from
citations of it in the aforementioned early medieval writers; and
this task was undertaken by Monsignor Roger Gryson. Gryson's
edition, a reconstruction of the Expositio Apocalypseos of
Tyconius, was published in 2011 in Corpus Christianorum Series
Latina. The present translation of that reconstructed text, with
introduction and notes, exhibits Tyconius's unique non-apocalyptic
approach to the Book of Revelation. It also shows that throughout
the Exposition Tyconius made use of interpretive rules that he had
laid out in an earlier work on hermeneutics, the Book of Rules,
strongly suggesting that Tyconius wrote his Exposition as a
companion to his Book of Rules. Thus, the Exposition served as an
exemplar of how those rules would apply to interpretation of even
the most intriguing of biblical texts, the Apocalypse.
In the early ninth century Theodulf of Orleans and Smaragdus of
Saint Mihiel served as advisers to Charlemagne. This book provides
English translations of a Latin commentary on the Apocalypse
written by Theodulf and three homilies on the Apocalypse by
Smaragdus. A comprehensive essay introduces these texts, their
authors, sources and place in ninth-century biblical exegesis.
The question of predestination and its nature, which drew strong
protests from the monks of Provence in the early fifth century
against the teaching of Augustine of Hippo, was initially settled
by the Council of Orange in 529. But in the Carolingian renaissance
in the ninth century, the Benedictine monk, Gottschalk of Orbais,
brought the teachings of the late Augustine to the forefront of
theological debate and greatly disturbed the clergy and faithful
with his doctrine of double predestination of some to the joy of
heaven and of others to the eternal punishment of hell a doctrine
that he claimed was that of Augustine and the Catholic faith. The
present volume provides for the first time an English translation
of Gottschalks key writings on predestination and various reactions
and comments from leading theologians of the ninth century, as well
as a learned introduction to Gottschalks life and controversies.
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