| 单词 | catena patrum |
| 释义 | > as lemmascatena patrum a. (More fully catena patrum): A string or series of extracts from the writings of the fathers, forming a commentary on some portion of Scripture; also, a chronological series of extracts to prove the existence of a continuous tradition on some point of doctrine. Also transferred. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > patristics > Fathers of the Church > [noun] > writings of collationc1200 the four books (or the Book) of the Sentence(sa1387 catena1644 didache1853 1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 27 For a parochiall Minister..to finish his circuit in..a Harmony and a Catena. 1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth ii. 261 The ancient glosses and catenæ upon scripture. 1858 R. A. Vaughan Ess. & Remains I. 29 The authorship of many, though assigned in the catenæ to Origen, is..open to question. 1862 F. D. Maurice Mod. Philos. 192 A catena of opinions in favour of an ecclesiastical system. 1882 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. I. 419 The true catena consists merely of extracts from a..number of exegetes. < as lemmas |
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