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class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Codex_Bodmer_25_folio_4_recto.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Codex_Bodmer_25_folio_4_recto.jpg/220px-Codex_Bodmer_25_folio_4_recto.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="294" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Codex_Bodmer_25_folio_4_recto.jpg/330px-Codex_Bodmer_25_folio_4_recto.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Codex_Bodmer_25_folio_4_recto.jpg/440px-Codex_Bodmer_25_folio_4_recto.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4600" data-file-height="6150" /></a><figcaption>The biblical text surrounded by a catena, in <a href="/wiki/Minuscule_556" title="Minuscule 556">Minuscule 556</a></figcaption></figure> <p>A <b>catena</b> (from Latin <i>catena</i>, a chain) is a form of biblical commentary, verse by verse, made up entirely of excerpts from earlier <a href="/wiki/Biblical_commentator" class="mw-redirect" title="Biblical commentator">Biblical commentators</a>, each introduced with the name of the author, and with such minor adjustments of words to allow the whole to form a continuous commentary. <a href="/wiki/John_Henry_Newman" title="John Henry Newman">John Henry Newman</a>, in his preface to <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Aquinas" title="Thomas Aquinas">Thomas Aquinas</a>' <i>Catena Aurea</i>, explains that a "Catena Patrum" is "a string or series of passages selected from the writings of various Fathers, and arranged for the elucidation of some portion of Scripture, as the <a href="/wiki/Psalms" title="Psalms">Psalms</a> or the Gospels".<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The texts are mainly compiled from popular authors, but they often contain fragments of certain <a href="/wiki/Patristic" class="mw-redirect" title="Patristic">patristic</a> writings now otherwise lost.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It has been asserted by <a href="/wiki/Michael_von_Faulhaber" title="Michael von Faulhaber">Faulhaber</a> that half of all the commentaries on scripture composed by the church Fathers are now extant only in this form.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Catena_(biblical_commentary)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The earliest Greek catena is ascribed to <a href="/wiki/Procopius_of_Gaza" title="Procopius of Gaza">Procopius of Gaza</a>, in the first part of the sixth century. Between the seventh and the tenth centuries, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Andreas_Presbyter&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Andreas Presbyter (page does not exist)">Andreas Presbyter</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Johannes_Drungarius&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Johannes Drungarius (page does not exist)">Johannes Drungarius</a> were the compilers of catenas to various Books of Scripture. Towards the end of the eleventh century <a href="/wiki/Nicetas_of_Heraclea" title="Nicetas of Heraclea">Nicetas of Heraclea</a> 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 Churches.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the West, <a href="/wiki/Primasius_of_Adrumentum" class="mw-redirect" title="Primasius of Adrumentum">Primasius of Adrumentum</a> in the former Roman province of Africa in the sixth century compiled the first catena from Latin commentators. He was imitated by <a href="/wiki/Rhabanus_Maurus" class="mw-redirect" title="Rhabanus Maurus">Rhabanus Maurus</a> (d. 865), <a href="/wiki/Paschasius_Radbertus" title="Paschasius Radbertus">Paschasius Radbertus</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Walafrid_Strabo" title="Walafrid Strabo">Walafrid Strabo</a>, later by <a href="/wiki/Remigius_of_Auxerre" title="Remigius of Auxerre">Remigius of Auxerre</a> (d. 900), and by <a href="/wiki/Lanfranc_of_Canterbury" class="mw-redirect" title="Lanfranc of Canterbury">Lanfranc of Canterbury</a> (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 <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Aquinas" title="Thomas Aquinas">Thomas Aquinas</a>, generally known as the <i>Catena aurea</i> (Golden chain) and containing excerpts from some eighty Greek and Latin commentators on the Gospels.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thomas composed the parts of his <i>Catena aurea</i> treating the gospels of Mark, Luke, and John while directing the Roman <i>studium</i> of the <a href="/wiki/Dominican_Order" title="Dominican Order">Dominican Order</a> at the convent of <a href="/wiki/Santa_Sabina" title="Santa Sabina">Santa Sabina</a>, the forerunner of the <a href="/wiki/Pontifical_University_of_Saint_Thomas_Aquinas" title="Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas">Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, <i>Angelicum</i></a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Similar collections of Greek patristic utterances were constructed for dogmatic purposes. They were used at the <a href="/wiki/Council_of_Chalcedon" title="Council of Chalcedon">Council of Chalcedon</a> in 451, at the <a href="/wiki/Second_Council_of_Constantinople" title="Second Council of Constantinople">Fifth General Council</a> in 553, also apropos of <a href="/wiki/Iconoclasm" title="Iconoclasm">Iconoclasm</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Seventh_General_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Seventh General Council">Seventh General Council</a> 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".<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Finally, in response to homiletic and practical needs, there appeared, previous to the tenth century, a number of collections of moral sentences and paraenetic fragments, partly from Scripture and partly from the more famous ecclesiastical writers; sometimes one writer (e.g. <a href="/wiki/Gregory_of_Nazianzus" title="Gregory of Nazianzus">Gregory of Nazianzus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Basil_the_Great" class="mw-redirect" title="Basil the Great">Basil the Great</a>, especially <a href="/wiki/John_Chrysostom" title="John Chrysostom">John Chrysostom</a> 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 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 <a href="/wiki/John_Damascene" class="mw-redirect" title="John Damascene">John Damascene</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> whose authority was defended (against Loofs, <a href="/wiki/Paul_Wendland" title="Paul Wendland">Wendland</a>, and Cohn) by <a href="/w/index.php?title=K._Holl&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="K. Holl (page does not exist)">K. Holl</a> in the above-mentioned "Fragmente vornikänischer Kirchenväter" (Leipzig, 1899), though the Damascene probably based his work on the "Capita theologica" of <a href="/wiki/Maximus_Confessor" class="mw-redirect" title="Maximus Confessor">Maximus Confessor</a>. The text of these ancient compilations is often in a dubious state, and the authors of most of them are unknown; one of the principal difficulties in their use is the uncertainty concerning the correctness of the names to which the excerpts are attributed. The carelessness of copyists, the use of "<a href="/wiki/Sigla" class="mw-redirect" title="Sigla">sigla</a>", contractions for proper names, and the frequency of transcription, led naturally to much confusion. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Printed_editions">Printed editions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Catena_(biblical_commentary)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Printed editions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>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. </p><p>Among the editors of Greek catenae was the Jesuit <a href="/wiki/Balthasar_Cordier" title="Balthasar Cordier">Balthasar Cordier</a>, who published (1628–47) collections of Greek patristic commentaries on St. John and St. Luke and, in conjunction with his confrère <a href="/w/index.php?title=Possin&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Possin (page does not exist)">Possin</a>, on St. Matthew; the latter scholar edited also (1673) similar collections of patristic excerpts on St. Mark and Job. The voluminous catenae known as <i>Biblia Magna</i> (Paris, 1643) and <i>Biblia Maxima</i> (Paris, 1660), edited by <a href="/w/index.php?title=J._de_la_Haye&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="J. de la Haye (page does not exist)">J. de la Haye</a>, were followed by the nine volumes of <i><a href="/wiki/Critici_Sacri" class="mw-redirect" title="Critici Sacri">Critici Sacri, sive clarissimorum virorum annotationes atque tractatus in biblia</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> containing selections, not only from Catholic but also from Protestant commentators. </p><p>An important collection of the Greek catenae on the New Testament is that of <a href="/wiki/J._A._Cramer" class="mw-redirect" title="J. A. Cramer">J. A. Cramer</a> (Oxford, 1838–44), online at archive.org. See also the twenty-eight volumes of the <a href="/wiki/Migne" class="mw-redirect" title="Migne">Migne</a> commentary in his "Scripturae sacrae cursus completus" (Paris, 1840–45). </p><p>For the Byzantine collections of ethical sentences and proverbs of (<a href="/wiki/Stobaeus" title="Stobaeus">Stobaeus</a> Maximus Confessor, <a href="/wiki/Antonius_Melissa" class="mw-redirect" title="Antonius Melissa">Antonius Melissa</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Johannes_Georgides&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Johannes Georgides (page does not exist)">Johannes Georgides</a>, <a href="/wiki/Macarius" title="Macarius">Macarius</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Apostolios&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Michael Apostolios (page does not exist)">Michael Apostolios</a>) partly from Christian and partly from pagan sources, see <a href="/wiki/Krumbacher" class="mw-redirect" title="Krumbacher">Krumbacher</a>, pp. 600–4, also <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFElter1893" class="citation cs2"><a href="/wiki/Anton_Elter" title="Anton Elter">Elter</a>, E. (1893), <i>De Gnomologiorum Graecorum historia atque origine</i>, Bonn</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=De+Gnomologiorum+Graecorum+historia+atque+origine&rft.place=Bonn&rft.date=1893&rft.aulast=Elter&rft.aufirst=E.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACatena+%28biblical+commentary%29" class="Z3988"></span><span class="cs1-maint citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Citation" title="Template:Citation">citation</a>}}</code>: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (<a href="/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_location_missing_publisher" title="Category:CS1 maint: location missing publisher">link</a>)</span>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Online_Catenas">Online Catenas</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Catena_(biblical_commentary)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Online Catenas"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>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,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which provides commentary from both Church Fathers and more modern writers such as <a href="/wiki/George_Leo_Haydock" title="George Leo Haydock">George Leo Haydock</a>. Another example of an online version is the "e-Catena" of Peter Kirby on <i>Early Christian Writings</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Catena_(biblical_commentary)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">J.H.N. (1874), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://dn790001.ca.archive.org/0/items/p1catenaaureacom01thomuoft/p1catenaaureacom01thomuoft.pdf">Preface to <i>Catena Aurea: Commentary on the Four Gospels collected out of the Works of the Fathers by S Thomas Aquinas</i></a>, page iii, accessed on 2 July 2024</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Shahan (1913). <a href="/wiki/Cf." title="Cf.">Cf.</a> Holl, Fragmente vornikänischer Kirchenväter, Leipzig, 1899.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Shahan (1913). See Catholic Encyclopedia article's bibliography listed in the reference section below.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Shahan (1913). Cites: Wright, de Lagarde, Martin, in Krumbacher, 216.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Shahan (1913). Cites: Ed. J. Nicolai, Paris, 1869, 3 vols.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Torrell, 161 ff.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Shahan (1913). Cites: Edited by <a href="/wiki/Cardinal_Mai" class="mw-redirect" title="Cardinal Mai">Cardinal Mai</a> in Scriptor. Vet. nova collectio, Rome, 1833, VII, i, 1-73; cf. <a href="/wiki/Loofs" class="mw-redirect" title="Loofs">Loofs</a>, Leontius von Byzanz, Leipzig, 1887.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Shahan (1913). Cites: Migne, <i><a href="/wiki/Patrologia_Graeca" title="Patrologia Graeca">Patrologia Graeca</a></i>, XCV, 1040-1586; XCVI, 9-544.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Shahan (1913). Cites: Edited by Pearson, London, 1660; Amsterdam, 1695-1701</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://catenabible.com/about-us">About Us - CatenaBible.com (accessed 9 Aug. 2022)</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/e-catena/">Kirby, Peter. "e-Catena." <i>Early Christian</i> Writings. 2022. 9 Aug. 2022</a></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Catena_(biblical_commentary)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dt>Attribution</dt></dl> <ul><li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/18px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/24px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="410" data-file-height="430" /></span></span> This article incorporates text from a publication now in the <a href="/wiki/Public_domain" title="Public domain">public domain</a>: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFShahan1913" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Shahan, Thomas J. (1913). "<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/Caten%C3%A6" class="extiw" title="s:Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Catenæ">Catenæ</a>". In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). <i><a href="/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia" title="Catholic Encyclopedia">Catholic Encyclopedia</a></i>. New York: Robert Appleton Company.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Caten%C3%A6&rft.btitle=Catholic+Encyclopedia&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Robert+Appleton+Company&rft.date=1913&rft.aulast=Shahan&rft.aufirst=Thomas+J.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACatena+%28biblical+commentary%29" class="Z3988"></span> The entry cites: <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFEhrhardt1897" class="citation cs2 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Ehrhardt (1897), <a href="/wiki/Krumbacher" class="mw-redirect" title="Krumbacher">Krumbacher</a> (ed.), <i>Geschichte der byzantinischen Literatur</i> (in German) (2nd ed.), Munich, pp. 106–18</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Geschichte+der+byzantinischen+Literatur&rft.place=Munich&rft.pages=106-18&rft.edition=2nd&rft.date=1897&rft.au=Ehrhardt&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACatena+%28biblical+commentary%29" class="Z3988"></span><span class="cs1-maint citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Citation" title="Template:Citation">citation</a>}}</code>: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (<a href="/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_location_missing_publisher" title="Category:CS1 maint: location missing publisher">link</a>)</span> Bibliography and manuscript indications.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFIttig1707" class="citation cs2 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Ittig (1707), <i>De Catenis et bibliothecis</i> (in Latin), Leipzig</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=De+Catenis+et+bibliothecis&rft.place=Leipzig&rft.date=1707&rft.au=Ittig&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACatena+%28biblical+commentary%29" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs2 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><i>Bibliotheca Graeca</i> (in Latin), vol. VIII, pp. 639–700</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Bibliotheca+Graeca&rft.pages=639-700&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACatena+%28biblical+commentary%29" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>A very full list of catenae is given in <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHarnack1893" class="citation cs2 cs1-prop-long-vol cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a href="/wiki/Adolf_Harnack" class="mw-redirect" title="Adolf Harnack">Harnack, Adolf</a> (1893), <i>Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur</i> (in German), vol. Teil I Halfte 2, Leipzig, pp. 835–42</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Geschichte+der+altchristlichen+Literatur&rft.place=Leipzig&rft.pages=835-42&rft.date=1893&rft.aulast=Harnack&rft.aufirst=Adolf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACatena+%28biblical+commentary%29" class="Z3988"></span><span class="cs1-maint citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Citation" title="Template:Citation">citation</a>}}</code>: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (<a href="/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_location_missing_publisher" title="Category:CS1 maint: location missing publisher">link</a>)</span></li> <li>For the catena manuscripts in the Vatican, see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs2"><i>Analecta Sacra</i>, vol. II, pp. 350, 359, 405</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Analecta+Sacra&rft.pages=350%2C+359%2C+405&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACatena+%28biblical+commentary%29" class="Z3988"></span> and <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFaulhaber1899" class="citation cs2">Faulhaber (1899), <i>Die Propheten-Catenen nach den römischen Handschriften</i>, vol. V, <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D._C." class="mw-redirect" title="Washington, D. C.">Washington, D. C.</a>: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Catholic_University_Bulletin&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Catholic University Bulletin (page does not exist)">Catholic University Bulletin</a>, p. 368</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Die+Propheten-Catenen+nach+den+r%C3%B6mischen+Handschriften&rft.place=Washington%2C+D.+C.&rft.pages=368&rft.pub=Catholic+University+Bulletin&rft.date=1899&rft.au=Faulhaber&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACatena+%28biblical+commentary%29" class="Z3988"></span> and <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFaulhaber1900" class="citation cs2">Faulhaber (1900), <i>Die Propheten-Catenen nach den römischen Handschriften</i>, vol. VI, <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D._C." class="mw-redirect" title="Washington, D. C.">Washington, D. C.</a>: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Catholic_University_Bulletin&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Catholic University Bulletin (page does not exist)">Catholic University Bulletin</a>, p. 94</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Die+Propheten-Catenen+nach+den+r%C3%B6mischen+Handschriften&rft.place=Washington%2C+D.+C.&rft.pages=94&rft.pub=Catholic+University+Bulletin&rft.date=1900&rft.au=Faulhaber&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACatena+%28biblical+commentary%29" class="Z3988"></span>.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Catena_(biblical_commentary)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPearse2009" class="citation cs2">Pearse, Roger (31 March 2009), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/?cat=55"><i>Greek Gospel Catenas</i></a><span class="reference-accessdate">, retrieved <span class="nowrap">2009-05-03</span></span></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Greek+Gospel+Catenas&rft.date=2009-03-31&rft.aulast=Pearse&rft.aufirst=Roger&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.roger-pearse.com%2Fweblog%2F%3Fcat%3D55&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACatena+%28biblical+commentary%29" class="Z3988"></span> - a classification</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAquinas1953" class="citation cs2 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Aquinas" title="Thomas Aquinas">Aquinas, Thomas</a> (1953), Alarcón, Enrique (ed.), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.corpusthomisticum.org/cmt01.html"><i>Catena Aurea</i></a> (in Latin)</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Catena+Aurea&rft.date=1953&rft.aulast=Aquinas&rft.aufirst=Thomas&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corpusthomisticum.org%2Fcmt01.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACatena+%28biblical+commentary%29" class="Z3988"></span> From a machine transcription by Robert Busa SJ</li> <li><span class="languageicon">(in English)</span> <span class="skin-invert-image" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Speaker_Icon.svg/15px-Speaker_Icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Speaker_Icon.svg/23px-Speaker_Icon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Speaker_Icon.svg/30px-Speaker_Icon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://librivox.org/search?title=Catena+Aurea&author=Aquinas&reader=&keywords=&genre_id=0&status=all&project_type=either&recorded_language=&sort_order=catalog_date&search_page=1&search_form=advanced"><i>Catena Aurea</i></a> public domain audiobook at <a href="/wiki/LibriVox" title="LibriVox">LibriVox</a></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs2"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/e-catena/"><i>e-Catena: Compiled Allusions to the NT in the Ante-Nicene Fathers</i></a>, September 2002<span class="reference-accessdate">, retrieved <span class="nowrap">2009-05-03</span></span></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=e-Catena%3A+Compiled+Allusions+to+the+NT+in+the+Ante-Nicene+Fathers&rft.date=2002-09&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.earlychristianwritings.com%2Fe-catena%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACatena+%28biblical+commentary%29" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs2"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://opengreekandlatin.github.io/catenae-dev/"><i><span></span></i>Open source XML version of the<i> Catenae Graecorum Patrum in Novum Testamentum </i>by the University of Leipzig<i><span></span></i></a>, November 2014<span class="reference-accessdate">, retrieved <span class="nowrap">2014-11-04</span></span></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Open+source+XML+version+of+the+Catenae+Graecorum+Patrum+in+Novum+Testamentum+by+the+University+of+Leipzig&rft.date=2014-11&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fopengreekandlatin.github.io%2Fcatenae-dev%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACatena+%28biblical+commentary%29" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs2"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://catenaaurea.sk"><i>e-Catena: Catena aurea in Slovak</i></a>, September 2015<span class="reference-accessdate">, retrieved <span class="nowrap">2015-09-28</span></span></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=e-Catena%3A+Catena+aurea+in+Slovak&rft.date=2015-09&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fcatenaaurea.sk&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACatena+%28biblical+commentary%29" 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