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Forty Centuries of Christian Writing

1774 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.

201–300

The Third Century

1 work

c. 200–204; survives complete only in Georgian

Greek, surviving in Georgian

Commentary on the Song of Songs

Hippolytus of Rome · c. 170 – c. 235

A reading of the Song in which the bride is the church and the bridegroom the Word, breaking off at chapter three. The women at the tomb become the new Eve, sent to the apostles as apostles themselves.

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