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The Medieval Church · 1262–1268

The Golden Chain

Catena Aurea

Thomas Aquinas · 1225–1274

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What it is

A continuous commentary on the four gospels assembled entirely from patristic quotations, chained together so the fathers appear to comment in sequence.

Why it lasted

It brought a great deal of Greek patristic exegesis into Latin circulation for the first time, some of it newly translated for the purpose.

Scripture it works from

Where to read it

Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.

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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