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The Church Fathers · c. 709–716
Commentary on Luke
The Venerable Bede · c. 673–735
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What it is
A patient exposition of the third gospel that marks in the margin which father each borrowed passage comes from, so a reader can tell Bede's own words from Ambrose's.
Why it lasted
An early and scrupulous form of citation, three centuries before anyone else in the West bothered.
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Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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