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Old Testament IX: Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon is unavailable, but you can change that!

Of extant commentaries on Ecclesiastes none is so profound as the eight homilies of Gregory of Nyssa, even though they cover only the first three chapters of the book. Joining Gregory among those most frequently excerpted in this volume are Augustine, Ambrose, Gregory the Great, Origen, John Cassian, John Chrysostom, Athanasius, Bede the Venerable and Jerome. Gregory of Nazianzus, Basil the Great...

In the early church the critical study of the books of the Bible was not so far advanced that the ancient commentators were preoccupied with the questions of date, authorship, setting, context, source, genre and structure that energize so many scholars today. There was a developing sense already then, however, that the books of Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, together with the book of Job and certain of the Psalms, did have some of the common
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