The Medieval Church · c. 1085–1100
The Gospel Commentaries
Theophylact of Ohrid · c. 1050–after 1107
What it is
Clear, compressed commentaries on the gospels and epistles distilling Chrysostom and the earlier fathers into something a parish priest could actually use.
Why it lasted
The standard Orthodox commentary for nine centuries, and one Erasmus and the Reformers read with respect.
Scripture it works from
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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