Commentary on the Catholic Douay-Rheims New Testament Exegeted from the Original Greek and Latin - Volume 2 - St. Luke and Acts of the Apostles

For the first time in Catholic history, the New Testament has been conservatively exegeted from the original Greek in a detailed analysis of its grammar and etymology. This is Volume 2 of that Commentary, covering the Gospel of St. Luke and the Acts of the Apostles.

Robert Sungenis interprets every verse from the grammar and context of the passage, with occasional attention to the Vulgate's Latin and to the English of the Douay-Rheims and other translations set side by side. He brings in key magisterial documents where they apply, along with the Fathers, the medievals, catechisms, encyclopedias, and other dogmatic sources. The exegesis follows the grammatical-historical method, with occasional recourse to typology and symbolism in the prophetic passages, and weighs the Greek textual-critical data wherever the manuscript tradition bears on a verse's meaning. Each verse carries numerous cross-references to related Scriptures, giving this Commentary the most cross-references of any Catholic Bible in history, and it holds throughout that all Scripture is inspired by the Holy Spirit and wholly inerrant in its history as well as its soteriology.

The Commentary is enriched throughout by the most famous biblical paintings in history, drawn from the Gothic, Romanesque, Renaissance, Baroque, and other movements (roughly 1,000 across the full set), many reproduced at full length. Set alongside the trusted 1609 Douay-Rheims and its 1899 American edition, it lets you get behind St. Jerome's fourth-century Latin translation of the Greek texts he used for the 27 books of the New Testament. Each volume runs roughly 700 pages on a 6 x 9 frame, a study source and heirloom to be handed down for generations.

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