[B-Greek] citation of church fathers in UBS

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Thu Mar 23 13:14:58 EST 2006


It's the "E-Catena" at http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/e-catena/

You can click on the passage you're interested in and quickly find  
the patristic source-texts discussing that passage.

On Mar 23, 2006, at 1:00 PM, Jeffrey B. Gibson wrote:

> Matt Rondeau wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>     I'm currently writing a textual criticism essay on John 12:28,  
>> and I was
>> wondering if anyone could help me in regards to locating specific  
>> instances
>> where the church fathers quote from a particular verse.  For  
>> instance, John
>> 12:28 has a note of Augustine 1/3 meaning that he cites the  
>> aforementioned
>> verse 3 times, and once he agrees with this particular variant.   
>> My problem
>> is that I can't seem to find where Augustine actually cites this  
>> verse, or
>> any other fathers for that matter.  It seems that I would have to  
>> read every
>> work written by them to find the citations.  I've checked the Loeb  
>> series,
>> but many of them don't have scripture indexes.  Any help is greatly
>> appreciated.
>
> I think Peter Kirby has produced a catenae of EC fathers's quotes  
> of scriptures.  Do a
> Google for Kirby and "early christian writings".
>
> And if you can get hold of the TLG,  you could actually search a  
> particular church
> Father's work electronically.
>
> Jeffrey
> --
> Jeffrey B. Gibson, D.Phil. (Oxon)


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