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Catena - a collection of mostly verbation quotated interpretations
of the 4 gospels, composed chain-like, cited from more
than 80 Greek + Latin writers. This compilation was the
1st called Catena, also Catena aurea, but the name,
already in use in 1321, does not seem to come from the
Saint himself.
The term Catena devotes a collection of Bible commentaries
arranged in chain-like succession, a practice that began early in
the West in the 6th C. St. Thomas, may be said to have brought
it to its highest form by including 80 Greek + Latin authors in
this work, + quoting them Verbatim. Such a compilation
represents, a truly monumental piece of scholarship,
encompassing all 4 Gospels, each with its own index. The work
is especially important because many of the texts quoted
are no longer extant.

Mazarine Rubricated in red + blue - no underlining.
my leaf - folio 23 of Volume 2
At Top LV - II
(Luke) (Capitulum)
Luke. Capitulum 2 - begins folio 15
ends folio 25
Vol. I MAT
MAR ends LV Sancti Luce XXIIII Capitulum on folio 184.
*Vol. II LV
IO then, Sancti Iohannis to
folio 341
The Catena aurea was the 4th in a series of works Aquinas wrote on
the Scriptures + writings of the great theologians of the church. His position
that reason + revelation were the 2 fundamental sources of knowledge
implied "a careful study + comphrehension of th results which accrued
to man from reason + revelation, + a thorough grasp of all thathad been
done by man in relation to those 2 source of human knowledge.
In explaining the manifestations of revelation, Aquinas -