The Twelve Prophets: Volume 14Alberto Ferreiro, Thomas C. Oden "And beginning with Moses and all the prophets, [the risen Jesus] interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself" (Lk 24:27). The church fathers mined the Old Testament throughout for prophetic utterances regarding the Messiah, but few books yielded as much messianic ore as the Twelve Prophets, sometimes known as the Minor Prophets because of the relative brevity of their writings. Encouraged by the example of the New Testament writers, the church fathers found numerous parallels between the Gospels and the prophetic books. Among the events foretold, they found not only the flight into Egypt after the nativity, the passion, and resurrection of Christ, and the outpouring of the Spirit at Pentecost, but also Judas's act of betrayal, the earthquake at Jesus' death and the rending of the temple veil. Detail upon detail brimmed with significance for Christian doctrine, including baptism and the Eucharist as well as the relation between the covenants. In this rich and vital resource you will find excerpts, some translated here into English for the first time, from more than thirty church fathers, ranging in time from Clement of Rome, Justin Martyr, and Irenaeus (late first and early second centuries) to Gregory the Great, Braulio of Saragossa, and Bede the Venerable (late sixth to early eighth centuries). Geographically the sources range from the great Cappadocians—Basil the Great, Gregory of Nazianzus, Gregory of Nyssa—John Chrysostom, Ephrem the Syrian, and Hippolytus in the East, to Ambrose, Augustine, Cyprian, and Tertullian in the West, and Origen, Cyril, and Pachomius in Egypt. This Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture volume is a treasure trove out of which Christians may bring riches both old and new in their understanding of these ancient texts. |
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... Zechariah • • • • • • 230 Commentary on Malachi • • • • • • 283 Appendix: Early Christian Writers and the Documents Cited • • • • • • 314 Biographical Sketches • • • • • • 322 Timeline of Writers of the Patristic Period • • • • • • 345 ...
... Zechariah 9:9, but also on other issues. Gregory the Great's Morals on the Book of Job, for instance, refers frequently to the twelve prophets on issues of pastoral care. As much as possible, I chose quotations from the fathers that ...
... Zechariah and Malachi. The extra books, not even the extended version of Daniel of the Septuagint, did not in themselves upset this scheme. Moses too was given the primacy in relation to the prophets among all Jews. In Christianity ...
... Zechariah is one of the longer books of the twelve and thus provided the church fathers with much material for comment. Zechariah 2 had hidden within it a foreshadowing of the Father and the Son, including the salvific message of Jesus ...
... Zechariah 11:12 foretells the betrayal of Jesus by Judas for thirty pieces of silver, while Zechariah 12 warns about the last judgment that awaits the Jews for rejecting Jesus. It is a defense that when Jesus returns to judge the human ...
Contents
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Joel | 57 |
Amos | 83 |
Obadiah | 117 |
Jonah | 128 |
Micah | 149 |
Nahum | 178 |
Habakkuk | 186 |
Early Christian Writers and the Documents Cited | 314 |
Biographical Sketches Short Descriptions of Select Anonymous Works | 322 |
Timeline of Writers of the Patristic Period | 345 |
Bibliography of Works in Original Languages | 352 |
Bibliography of Works in English Translation | 361 |
AuthorsWritings Index | 370 |
Subject Index | 371 |
Scripture Index | 378 |
Zephaniah | 207 |
Haggai | 219 |
Zechariah | 230 |
Malachi | 283 |
About the Editor | 383 |
Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture | 384 |
More Titles from InterVarsity Press | 385 |