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produced a great number of catenae. Both before and after, however, the makers of catenae were numerous in the Greek Orient, mostly anonymous, and offering no other indication of their personality than the manuscripts of their excerpts. Similar compilations were also made in the Syriac and Coptic
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whom all the catenae-makers pillage freely) furnishes the material. Such collections are not so numerous as the
Scriptural or even the dogmatic catenae. They seem all to depend on an ancient Christian "Florilegium" of the sixth century, that treated, in three books, of God, Man, the Virtues and
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Vices, and was known as τὰ ἱερά (Sacred Things). Before long its material was recast in strict alphabetical order; took the name of τὰ ἱερὰ παράλληλα, "Sacra
Parallela" (because in the third book a virtue and a vice had been regularly opposed to one another); and was attributed widely to
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in 787; and among the Greeks such compilations, like the exegetical catenae, did not cease until late in the Middle Ages. The oldest of these dogmatic compilations, attributed to the latter part of the seventh century, is the "Antiquorum Patrum doctrina de Verbi incarnatione".
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Scripture and partly from the more famous ecclesiastical writers; sometimes one writer (e.g.
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Some websites host online versions of catenas, whether they be uploads of older books or original works. An example of a web original catena is CatenaBible.com, founded in 2015, which provides commentary from both Church
Fathers and more modern writers such as
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From the fifteenth century to the nineteenth, various catenas were published. However no modern editions exist, and there are severe textual problems in editing them.
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in the above-mentioned "Fragmente vornikänischer
Kirchenväter" (Leipzig, 1899), though the Damascene probably based his work on the "Capita theologica" of
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132:(d. 1089). The Western catenae have had less importance attached to them. The most famous of the medieval Latin compilations of this kind is that of
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140:(Golden chain) and containing excerpts from some eighty Greek and Latin commentators on the Gospels. Thomas composed the parts of his
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in the former Roman province of Africa in the sixth century compiled the first catena from Latin commentators. He was imitated by
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commentary in his "Scripturae sacrae cursus completus" (Paris, 1840–45).
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treating the gospels of Mark, Luke, and John while directing the Roman
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Shahan (1913). Cites: Wright, de Lagarde, Martin, in Krumbacher, 216.
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302:De Gnomologiorum Graecorum historia atque origine
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