Jerome – Commentary on Jonah
| Document: | Commentary on Jonah |
| Reference: | CPL 589 |
| Addressee: | Chromatius |
| Date: | c. 390- 406 (Kelly p. 163, 220, 290) |
| Earliest ms.: | Paris, France: Bibliotheque Nationale, Lat. 10600. 8-9th c). (Lambert, II: p. 177) |
| Latin Text: | Adriaen, ed., Hieronymus: Commentarii in prophetas minores, CChr.SL 76 and 76A (Turnhout, 1969 and 1964) Y.-M. Duval, ed., Jerome, Commentaire sur Jonas, SC vol. 323 (Paris 1985) Migne, ed., Libri Commentariorum, PL vol. 25, coll. 1117-1152B. |
| English Translation: | T.M. Hegedus, Jerome’s Commentary on Jonah” (Waterloo, Ont.1991) W.H. Fremantle gives summaries of the prefaces in “Prefaces to the Commentaries on the Minor Prophets” in NPNF2, vol. 6 (New York, 1893), pp. 501-02. |
| Notes: | Though these commentaries eventually circulated as a unit, they were composed separately. They were produced in a somewhat haphazard order, because they were written at the behest of friends, and shorter books were sometimes undertaken when he had little time for writing (Kelly, p. 163). |
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