Earliest gospel commentary?

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Earliest gospel commentary?

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What do you think is the earliest chronological (eg. chapter by chapter) patristic commentary on the gospels?

Origen has a commentary on Matthew and on John, but it is not arranged according to the gospel chapters (eg. Matthew 1, Matthew 2, and so on), but rahter by subject (eg. whether the church is the new Israel).

The earliest I found is Augustine's Harmonization.
http://www.clerus.org/bibliaclerusonline/en/ih.htm#ey

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rakovsky wrote:Origen has a commentary on Matthew and on John, but it is not arranged according to the gospel chapters (eg. Matthew 1, Matthew 2, and so on), but rahter by subject (eg. whether the church is the new Israel).
Does not Origen follow the Matthean order? The fragments at New Advent are:
And so on....

Before Origen, Heracleon wrote a commentary on the gospel of John (now lost except for patristic quotations).

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Thanks! The downside is that I don't think we have Origen's commentary on Matthew 28, which I am most interested in.

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rakovsky wrote:Thanks! The downside is that I don't think we have Origen's commentary on Matthew 28, which I am most interested in.
Right. I think it ends around Matthew 19 or 20.
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Do you just want to know about early gospel commentaries, or more specifically about early commentaries on Matthew 28?
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Ben C. Smith wrote:
rakovsky wrote:Thanks! The downside is that I don't think we have Origen's commentary on Matthew 28, which I am most interested in.
Right. I think it ends around Matthew 19 or 20.
There is a Latin version of Origen on Matthew which goes nearly to the end of Matthew (but not Matthew chapter 28)
see http://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2015 ... n-matthew/
it has not IIUC been translated into English.

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andrewcriddle wrote:
Ben C. Smith wrote:
rakovsky wrote:Thanks! The downside is that I don't think we have Origen's commentary on Matthew 28, which I am most interested in.
Right. I think it ends around Matthew 19 or 20.
There is a Latin version of Origen on Matthew which goes nearly to the end of Matthew (but not Matthew chapter 28)
see http://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2015 ... n-matthew/
it has not IIUC been translated into English.
Good one. Thanks.
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Peter Kirby wrote:Do you just want to know about early gospel commentaries, or more specifically about early commentaries on Matthew 28?
Augustine's Harmony of the Gospels is the best I found and earliest that covers each part chronologically.

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These websites are nice for finding patristic references to the NT:

http://www.biblindex.mom.fr/

http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/e-catena/
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