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The Church Fathers · c. 380–385

The Book of Rules

Liber Regularum

Tyconius · c. 330–c. 390

What it is

Seven rules for reading scripture consistently — on the Lord and his body, on the bipartite church, on promise and law, on species and genus, on times, on recapitulation, and on the devil and his body.

Why it lasted

The first Latin handbook of hermeneutics, written by a Donatist and adopted by Augustine, who reproduced it almost entire.

Where to read it

This work is in the public domain and can be read in full, free, at the archives below. The Library catalogues it; it does not host the text.

These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.

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