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Patrologiae cursus completus, tomus IV: tituli

Editors' preface

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PATROLOGIAE

Of the Patrology

CURSUS COMPLETUS

the complete course,

SEU BIBLIOTHECA UNIVERSALIS, INTEGRA, UNIFORMIS, COMMODA, OECONOMICA,

or universal, entire, uniform, convenient, economical library

⟨O⟩MNIUM SS. PATRUM, DOCTORUM SCRIPTORUMQUE ECCLESIASTICORUM,

of all the holy Fathers, Doctors, and ecclesiastical writers,

SIVE LATINORUM, SIVE GRAECORUM,

whether of the Latins or of the Greeks,

QUI AB AEVO APOSTOLICO AD AETATEM INNOCENTII III (ANNO 1216) PRO LATINIS ET AD BESSARIONIS TEMPORA (ANNO 863) PRO GRAECIS FLORUERUNT :

who flourished from the apostolic age to the time of Innocent III (in the year 1216) for the Latins and to the times of Bessarion (in the year 863) for the Greeks:

RECUSIO CHRONOLOGICA

a chronological reprinting

OMNIUM QUAE EXSTITERE MONUMENTORUM CATHOLICAE TRADITIONIS PER QUINDECIM PRIORA ECCLESIAE SAECULA ET AMPLIUS,

of all the monuments of Catholic tradition that have existed through the first fifteen centuries of the Church and more,

JUXTA EDITIONES ACCURATISSIMAS, INTER SE CUMQUE NONNULLIS CODICIBUS MANUSCRIPTIS COLLATAS, PERQUAM DILIGENTER CASTIGATA; DISSERTATIONIBUS, COMMENTARIIS, VARIISQUE LECTIONIBUS CONTINENTER ILLUSTRATA ; OMNIBUS OPERIBUS POST AMPLISSIMAS EDITIONES QUAE TRIBUS NOVISSIMIS SAECULIS DEBENTUR ABSOLUTAS DETECTIS AUCTA; INDICIBUS PARTICULARIBUS ANALYTICIS, SINGULOS SIVE TOMOS SIVE AUCTORES ALICUJUS MOMENTI SUBSEQUENTIBUS, DONATA; CAPITULIS INTRA IPSUM TEXTUM RITE DISPOSITIS, NECNON ET TITULIS SINGULARUM PAGINARUM MARGINEM SUPERIOREM DISTINGUENTIBUS SUBJECTAMQUE MATERIAM SIGNIFICANTIBUS, ADORNATA; OPERIBUS CUM DUBIIS, TUM APOCRYPHIS, ALIQUA VERO AUCTORITATE IN ORDINE AD TRADITIONEM ECCLESIASTICAM POLLENTIBUS, AMPLIFICATA; DUCENTIS ET AMPLIUS LOCUPLETATA INDICIBUS; AUCTORUM SICUT ET OPERUM, ALPHABETICIS, CHRONOLOGICIS, STATISTICIS, SYNTHETICIS, ANALYTICIS, ANALOGICIS, IN QUODQUE RELIGIONIS PUNCTUM, DOGMATICUM, MORALE, LITURGICUM, CANONICUM, DISCIPLINARE HISTORICUM, ET CUNCTA ALIA SINE ULLA EXCEPTIONE ; SED PRAESERTIM DUOBUS INDICIBUS IMMENSIS ET GENERALIBUS, ALTERO SCILICET RERUM, QUO CONSULTO, QUIDQUID NON SOLUM TALIS TALISVE PATER, VERUM ETIAM UNUSQUISQUE PATRUM, NE UNO QUIDEM OMISSO, IN QUODLIBET THEMA SCRIPSERIT, UNO INTUITU CONSPICIATUR; ALTERO SCRIPTURAE SACRAE, EX QUO LECTORI COMPERIRE SIT OBVIUM QUINAM PATRES ET IN QUIBUS OPERUM SUORUM LOCIS SINGULOS SINGULORUM LIBRORUM S. SCRIPTURAE VERSUS, A PRIMO GENESEOS USQUE AD NOVISSIMUM APOCALYPSIS, COMMENTATI SINT.

very diligently corrected according to the most accurate editions, collated with one another and with several manuscript codices; continually illustrated with dissertations, commentaries, and various readings; augmented with all the works discovered after the completion of the most ample editions owing to the last three centuries; provided with particular analytical indexes following each volume or author of any moment; adorned with chapters duly arranged within the text itself, and also with titles distinguishing the upper margin of each page and signifying the subject matter; amplified with works both doubtful and apocryphal, yet possessing some authority in relation to ecclesiastical tradition; enriched with two hundred and more indexes of authors as well as of works—alphabetical, chronological, statistical, synthetic, analytical, analogical, on every point of religion, dogmatic, moral, liturgical, canonical, disciplinary, historical, and all others without any exception; but especially with two immense and general indexes, the one namely of subjects, upon consulting which, whatever not only such or such a Father, but even every single one of the Fathers, with not even one omitted, has written on any theme whatever may be seen at a single glance; the other of Sacred Scripture, from which it is easy for the reader to ascertain which Fathers and in what places of their works have commented upon each verse of each book of Sacred Scripture, from the first of Genesis down to the last of the Apocalypse.

EDITIO ACCURATISSIMA, CAETERISQUE OMNIBUS FACILE ANTEPONENDA, SI PERPENDANTUR CHARACTERUM NITIDITAS CHARTAE QUALITAS, INTEGRITAS TEXTUS, PERFECTIO CORRECTIONIS, OPERUM RECUSORUM TUM VARIETAS, TUM NUMERUS, FORMA VOLUMINUM PERQUAM COMMODA SIBIQUE IN TOTO PATROLOGIAE DECURSU CONSTANTER SIMILIS, PRETII EXIGUITAS, PRAESERTIMQUE ISTA COLLECTIO, UNA, METHODICA ET CHRONOLOGICA SEXCENTORUM FRAGMENTORUM OPUSCULORUMQUE HACTENUS HIC ILLIC SPARSORUM, PRIMUM AUTEM IN NOSTRA BIBLIOTHECA, EX OPERIBUS ET MSS. AD OMNES AETATES, LOCOS, LINGUAS FORMASQUE PERTINENTIBUS COADUNATORUM.

A most accurate edition, and easily to be preferred to all others, if one weighs the clearness of the characters, the quality of the paper, the integrity of the text, the perfection of the correction, both the variety and the number of the reprinted works, the very convenient form of the volumes constantly uniform with itself throughout the whole course of the Patrology, the smallness of the price, and especially this single, methodical, and chronological collection of six hundred fragments and minor works hitherto scattered here and there, but now for the first time united in our Library from works and manuscripts pertaining to all ages, places, languages, and forms.

SERIES GRAECA

Greek Series,

IN QUA PRODEUNT PATRES, DOCTORES SCRIPTORESQUE ECCLESIAE GRAECAE A S. BARNABA AD BESSARIONEM

in which appear the Fathers, Doctors, and writers of the Greek Church from St. Barnabas to Bessarion,

ACCURANTE J.-P. MIGNE,

edited by J.-P. Migne,

Bibliothecae Cleri universae

of the Universal Library of the Clergy,

SIVE

CURSUUM COMPLETORUM IN SINGULOS SCIENTIAE ECCLESIASTICAE RAMOS EDITORE.

editor of the complete courses in the several branches of ecclesiastical science.

PATROLOGIAE GRAECAE TOMUS IV.

Volume IV of the Greek Patrology.

S. DIONYSIUS AREOPAGITA.

St. Dionysius the Areopagite.

PARISIIS

At Paris,

APUD GARNIER FRATRES, EDITORES ET J.-P. MIGNE SUCCESSORES, IN VIA DICTA : AVENUE DU MAINE, 189, OLIM CHAUSSÉE DU MAINE, 127.

at Garnier Brothers, publishers and successors of J.-P. Migne, in the street called Avenue du Maine, 189, formerly Chaussée du Maine, 127.

Editors' notes and page, col. 1

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Editors' notes and page, col. 6

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