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Ambrosiaster is the name given to the writer of a commentary on St Paul's
Paul of Tarsus

Saint Paul, also called Paul the Apostle, the Apostle Paul or Paul of Tarsus , was a Hellenistic Judaism, who called himself the "Apostle to the Gentiles", and was, together with Saint Peter and James the Just, the most notable of early Christian missionaries....
 epistles, "brief in words but weighty in matter," and valuable for the criticism of the Latin
Latin

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 text of the New Testament
New Testament

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. This commentary was erroneously attributed for a long time to St Ambrose
Ambrose

Saint Ambrose was a Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milan who became one of the most influential ecclesiastical figures of the fourth century. He is counted as one of the four original doctors of the Church....
.

Erasmus in 1527 threw doubt on the accuracy of this ascription, and the author is usually spoken of as Ambrosiaster or pseudo-Ambrose. Because Augustine cites part of the commentary on Romans
Epistle to the Romans

The Epistle of St. Paul the Apostle to the Romans is one of the letters of the New Testament canon of Scripture of the Christianity Bible. Often referred to simply as Romans, it is one of the seven currently undisputed letters of Paul the Apostle....
 as by "Sanctus Hilarius" it has been ascribed by various critics at different times to almost every known Hilary.






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Ambrosiaster is the name given to the writer of a commentary on St Paul's
Paul of Tarsus

Saint Paul, also called Paul the Apostle, the Apostle Paul or Paul of Tarsus , was a Hellenistic Judaism, who called himself the "Apostle to the Gentiles", and was, together with Saint Peter and James the Just, the most notable of early Christian missionaries....
 epistles, "brief in words but weighty in matter," and valuable for the criticism of the Latin
Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
 text of the New Testament
New Testament

The New Testament is the name given to the second major division of the Christianity Bible, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....
. This commentary was erroneously attributed for a long time to St Ambrose
Ambrose

Saint Ambrose was a Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milan who became one of the most influential ecclesiastical figures of the fourth century. He is counted as one of the four original doctors of the Church....
.

Erasmus in 1527 threw doubt on the accuracy of this ascription, and the author is usually spoken of as Ambrosiaster or pseudo-Ambrose. Because Augustine cites part of the commentary on Romans
Epistle to the Romans

The Epistle of St. Paul the Apostle to the Romans is one of the letters of the New Testament canon of Scripture of the Christianity Bible. Often referred to simply as Romans, it is one of the seven currently undisputed letters of Paul the Apostle....
 as by "Sanctus Hilarius" it has been ascribed by various critics at different times to almost every known Hilary. Germain Morin
Germain Morin

Germain Morin was a Belgian Benedictine historical scholar and patrologist, of the Beuronese Congregation....
 broke new ground by suggesting in 1899 that the writer was Isaac, a converted Jew and writer of a tract on the Trinity and Incarnation, who was exiled to Spain
Spain

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 in 378-380 and then relapsed to Judaism
Judaism

Judaism is a set of beliefs and practices originating in the Hebrew Bible , as later further explored and explained in the Talmud and other texts....
; but he afterwards abandoned this theory of the authorship in favour of Decimus Hilarianus Hilarius, proconsul of Africa
North Africa during the Classical Period

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 in 377.

With this attribution Alexander Souter
Alexander Souter

Alexander Souter was a Scotland biblical scholar....
 agrees. There is scarcely anything to be said for the possibility of Ambrose having written the book before he became a bishop, and added to it in later years, incorporating remarks of Hilary of Poitiers
Hilary of Poitiers

Hilary of Poitiers was Bishop of Poitiers and is a Doctor of the Church. He was sometimes referred to as the "Malleus Arianorum" and the "Athanasius of Alexandria of the West"....
 on Romans. The best presentation of the case for Ambrose is by P. A. Ballerini in his complete edition of that father's works.

In the book cited above Souter also discusses the authorship of the Quaestiones Veteris et Novi Testamenti, which the manuscripts ascribe to Augustine. He concludes, on very thorough philological
Philology

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 and other grounds, that this is with one possible slight exception the work of the same "Ambrosiaster." The same conclusion had been arrived at previously by Dom Morin.

Bibliography


Texts

  • Heinrich Joseph Vogels, Vinzenz Bulhart, and Rudolf Hanslik. 1966. Ambrosiastri qui dicitur Commentarius in Epistulas Paulinas. Corpus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum Latinorum vol. 81, pt. 1-3. Vindobonae: Hoelder-Pichler-Tempsky.
  • Isaac Judaeus, Isacis Judaei Quae supersunt, ed. A. Hoste, CCL 9 (Turnhout: Brepols, 1957), pp. 331-48. The questions were at this time attributed to Isaac the Jew, but now to Ambrosiaster.
  • also see links below


Studies

  • Moreschini, Claudio, and Enrico Norelli. 2005 "Ambrosiaster," in Early Christian Greek and Latin Literature: A Literary History. Peabody, Mass: Hendrickson Publishers. vol. 2, p. 296-98.
  • Mundle, Wilhelm. 1919.
  • Queis, Dietrich Traugott von, and Augustine. 1972. Ambrosiaster: Quaestiones Veteris et Novi Testamenti. Quaestio 115: De fato. Basel.
  • Rockliffe, S. 2007. Oxford.
  • Souter, Alexander. 1905. . Cambridge [Eng.]: The University Press.
  • Souter, Alexander. 1927. . Oxford: Clarendon Press.


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