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This anonymous florilegium gathers biblical texts under doctrinal and moral headings. The opening chapters treat the one God and the distinction of the persons of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and later chapters cover such topics as conversion and contempt of the world and fasting. Under each heading verses are quoted with brief labels such as ‘In the Prophet’, ‘In the Gospel’ or ‘Paul to Timothy’, drawn from both Testaments, with no commentary. The first chapter includes the Trinitarian addition to the First Epistle of John, speaking of three that bear witness in heaven, the Father, the Word and the Spirit.
Collections of scriptural testimonies on set topics were a long-standing tool of Latin Christian teaching, used for instruction, preaching and controversy. This one was printed by Migne in the appendix to the works of Isidore of Seville, but it is not his and its author is unknown. Its quotations are of interest for the history of the Latin Bible, notably as a witness to the so-called Johannine Comma.
About this edition. The Latin text comes from Corpus Corporum, the Latin text repository of the University of Zurich (edition: Jacques-Paul Migne, Patrologia Latina, vol. 83, Parisiis 1850), reused with attribution for non-commercial purposes (CC BY-NC-SA). Every word has been analyzed with LatinCy, a neural language model for Latin — click or tap any word for its dictionary form, part of speech, and complete morphology, together with the full entry from Lewis & Short’s A Latin Dictionary.