8vo. 2 volumes: (XXIV),1694,(2 blank) p. Half calf. 22 cm 'Biblical exegesis' (Ref: Hofmann 3,494; Graesse 6/2,118; Ebert 22796; Brunet 5,786; not yet in VD18) (Details: Backs with 5 raised bands. Marbled boards. Greek text and Latin translation in 2 columns. Volume two of five) (Condition: Bindings scuffed, backs skilfully repaired and rubbed. One of the shields on the back of the first volume has gone. Corners bumped, boards chafed. Paper foxed and yellowing. Lacking the volume 1 and 3/5) (Note: Theodoretus, 393-466 A.D., is one of the most successful writers of the Eastern Church. He was 'from 423 bishop of Cyrrhus, Syria. From 428 he was involved in the Christological controversy between his friend Nestorius and Cyrill of Alexandria. He became Cyrill's leading critic. Deposed by the monophysite Council of Ephesus (449) he was rehabilitated at Chalcedon in spite of strenuous protests (451), but his attacks on Cyrill received posthumous condemnation under Justinian at the Council of Constantinople (553). His well-composed letters, written in elegant prose, are informative about both secular and ecclesiastical matters. His 'Graecarum Affectionum Curatio' is painstaking, and thorough in contrasting Christianity and paganism. His 'Church History' from Constantine to 428 contains many invaluable documents. The 'Religious History' contains biographies of ascetics. The rest of his work is biblical exegesis and theological controversy, both of which he conducted well'. (OCD 2nd edition, p. 1055) § Theodoretus' exegetical commentaries are, according to Quasten, among the finest specimens of the Antiochene School, and remarkable for their combination of terseness and lucidity. In his interpretation of Holy Scripture Theodoretus adopts a middle course, avoiding the radicalism of Theodore of Mopsuestia and his excessive literalness, and allowing an allegorical and typological explanation, whenever this appears preferable. (Quasten 3,539) § Theodoretus' 'Opera Omnia' was produced by the German scholars J.L. Schulze and J.A. Noesselt, and reprinted in J.P. Migne, 'Patrologia Graeca', volumes 80-84. The contents of this second volume was reprinted in volume 81 (1864) of the 'Patrologia Graeca'. § This second volume contains: 'Explanatio in Canticum Canticorum; Succincta in Esaiam Prophetam interpretatio; In divini Jeremiae prophetiam interpretatio; Liber XI, Baruch; Liber II, Lamentationes (Jeremiae); In divini Ezechielis prophetiam interpretatio; Commentarius in visiones Danielis Prophetae; Commentarius in Duodecim Prophetas; Enarratio in Hoseam Prophetam; Interpretatio Ioelis Prophetae; Commentarius in Amosum Prophetam; Interpretatio Abdiae Prophetae; Interpretatio Ionae Prophetae; Interpretatio Michaeae Prophetae; Interpretatio Nahumi Prophetae; Interpretatio Prophetae Habacuc; Interpretatio Sophoniae Prophetae; Interpretatio Aggaei Prophetae; Interpretatio Zachariae Prophetae; Interpretatio Malachiae Prophetae') (Provenance: Small label on the front pastedown: 'Sold by William Brown,130, Old Street, London. Libraries purchased'. Brown specialized in Theology. In 'The Ecclesiastical gazette, or, Monthly register of the affairs of the Church of England', vol. VII, June 1845, p. 280, we found an advertisement of him for a catalogue of books relating to 'Ecclesiastical History, the Roman Catholic controversy' and a catalogue 'Foreign theological, ecclesiastical, and biblical literature') (Collation: *8, b4; A-5O8 (chi 1 after 2T6, = half title of volume 2; leaf 5O8, the last leaf, is blank)) (Photographs on request)