12 Corinthians Gerald L Bray Thomas C Oden by Gerald L. Bray, Thomas C. Oden 9780830824922, 0830824928 instant download after payment.

In Paul's letters to the Corinthian church, the pastoral issues of a first-century Christian community stand out in bold relief.
And as the apostle responds to these challenges, the fathers lean over
his shoulder, marveling and commenting on his pastoral wisdom.

Best
known among these patristic commentators is Chrysostom, whose
seventy-seven homilies on the two Corinthian epistles are a treasury of
exposition and application. The fragmentary works of Didymus the Blind
and Severian of Gabala give us samples of Greek exegesis from the
Alexandrian and Antiochene schools. The partial work of Theodore of
Mopsuestia was long valued in the church, and the comments of Theodoret
of Cyr are notable for their sensitivity to the intertextuality of
Scripture. Then there are Origen and Pelagius, whose notable errors need
not obscure their brilliant insights into Scripture. But pride of place
in this volume goes to the unknown fourth-century commentator now
dubbed Ambrosiaster. His excellent commentary on 1 and 2 Corinthians was
previously unavailable in English translation.

This Ancient
Christian Commentary on Scripture volume opens a whole new way of
reading these New Testament texts. The pastoral and theological
interpretation of the fathers offers spiritual and intellectual
sustenance to those who would read Paul again with open minds and
hearts.