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The early church valued the Gospel of Mark for its preservation of
the apostolic voice and gospel narrative of Peter. Yet the early church
fathers very rarely produced sustained commentary on Mark. This
brisk-paced and robust little Gospel, so much enjoyed by modern readers,
was overshadowed in the minds of the fathers by the magisterial Gospels
of Matthew and John. But now with the assistance of computer
searches, an abundance of comment has been discovered to be embedded and
interleaved amidst the textual archives of patristic homilies,
apologies, letters, commentaries, theological treatises and hymnic
verses. In this Ancient Christian Commentary on Mark, the insights
of Augustine of Hippo and Clement of Alexandria, Ephrem the Syrian and
Cyril of Jerusalem join in a polyphony of interpretive voices of the
Eastern and Western church from the second century to the seventh. St.
Mark's Gospel displays the evocative power of its story, parables and
passion as it ignites a brilliant exhibit of theological insight and
pastoral wisdom. The Ancient Christian Commentary on Mark (now in
its second edition) opens up a long-forgotten passage through the arid
and precipitous slopes of post-Enlightenment critical interpretation and
bears us along to a fertile valley basking in the sunshine of
theological and spiritual interpretation. In these pages we enter the
interpretive world that long nurtured the great premodern pastors,
theologians and saints of the church.