Introduction to This Volume

How this book is arranged

This is the twenty-sixth volume of a series that gathers the writings of the early Church in order of date, from the generation after the apostles down to the eighth century. This volume holds Ambrosiaster, Commentary on Romans and Questions on the Old and New Testaments, from the period about AD 366 – 384.

Within each work the text is divided into chapters and numbered sections, so that any passage can be found again and cited. The small bold figures in the text are the section numbers.

The translations

The text is in English only. Wherever a modern English version has been prepared for SermonIndex it is used here; otherwise the book prints an older public-domain translation. In both cases the wording is the translator’s own: older translations have not been altered beyond dividing them into sections. The sources for every work are listed at the back of the book, together with the licence under which each text is released. All the works in this volume are printed in older public-domain translations.

In this volume

Ambrosiaster is the name that scholars give to the unknown author of a Latin commentary on the letters of Paul and of a collection of Questions on the Old and New Testaments, written at Rome in the later fourth century. The works were long ascribed to Ambrose of Milan.

Dates and authorship

Dates are approximate and are debated by scholars. Each work begins with a short introduction that states what is known about its author and its date, and what is uncertain.