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The Church Fathers · c. 740–750
The Sacred Parallels
Sacra Parallela
John of Damascus · c. 675–749
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What it is
An alphabetical anthology of scriptural and patristic passages arranged by subject, pairing virtues with the vices opposed to them.
Why it lasted
Preserves fragments of many lost Greek works, and is the ancestor of the medieval florilegium in the East.
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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