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The 1st translation right into a sleek language of a massive patristic textual content, Gregory of Nyssa's treatise at the inscriptions of the Psalms. The booklet exhibits Gregory's indebtedness to classical tradition

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2 (1985), 295-308. 49 Exposition, PG 27. 57-545; Titles, PG 27. 649-1344. 50 See Rondeau, Les commentaires patristiques, i, 79-87. 5' Vir. ill. 87. 24 Introduction five parts, and that the order (Ta6,) does not follow the historical sequence. In close dependence on Eusebius, he then attributes the confused order of the psalms to their loss and random rediscovery. Two additional topics of commentary introductions may also be mentioned by Athanasius. There is a brief consideration of some of the inscriptions, but only in the context of the discussion of the authorship of the psalms and the reason the whole collection is referred to David, which is very different from the way they are treated by Origen and GregoryY C.

These latter were, however, discussions of titles of works. ' I, and cf. Ps. Hippolytus frag. 7), and clearly has a lengthy discussion of the title of the Song of Songs in the introduction to his commentary on that book (Cant. Pro!. 4). 7' Origene, 275-80, 262-75. Gregory's Exegetical Method 29 of his predecessors. 72 Gregory discusses them in the context of a quasi JewishChristian debate over their meaning in relation to Christ. a (II. 114-30), he begins by stating the view of his predecessors, which must mean primarily Origen.

Tardieu (Paris, 1987),99-122, esp. , however, has shown Praechter's view to be invalid. She thinks both Porphyry and Origen used these categories of commentary introductions, though sometimes without the technical vocabulary. See also my discussion of their appearance in Alexander of Aphrodisias in R. E. Heine, 'The Introduction to Origen's Commentary on John Compared with the Introductions to the Ancient Philosophical Commentaries on Aristotle', in Origeniana Sexta (forthcoming). Origen discusses the skopos of the Holy Spirit in the Scriptures in Prine.

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