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Fragments on the Psalms

Fragmenta in Psalmos · Ἀποσπάσματα εἰς τοὺς Ψαλμούς

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Contents

  1. 1Ps 1:1
  2. 2Ps 1:1; Matt 23:2
  3. 3Ps 4:1; Rom 5:20; Ps 4:2; Isa 58:9; Ps 4:8; 2 Sam 16:1; 2 Sam 17:27–29; Luke 23:42; Ps 4:3; Prov 27:3; Job 6:3; John 18:30; Ps 62:10
  4. 4Ps 5:13; Ps 5:1; Jer 38:31–32; Heb 8:8–9; Isa 1:2–3; Ps 18:44–45; Gal 4:30; Gen 21:10; Jer 12:7; Jer 12:8; John 19:15; Ps 61:6; Ps 5:2–3
  5. 5Ps 5:2; 1 Kgs 8:39; Ps 5:3; Ps 5:4; Ps 55:18; Ps 34:2; Hos 6:3
  6. 6Ps 5:12; Eph 5:5; Ps 6:1; Ps 6:2; Ps 94:12
  7. 7Ps 7:2; Ps 7:3
  8. 8Ps 11:3; Ps 40:7
  9. 9Ps 14:1; Ps 15:1; 1 Cor 7:31; Isa 40:22; Isa 40:42; Isa 40:5; 2 Cor 5:4; 2 Cor 5:1; Ps 91:10; 1 Cor 6:20; Gen 23:4; Gen 21:34; Gen 47:9; Exod 2:22; Phil 3:20; Ps 15:2
  10. 10Ps 15:4; Amos 8:14; Jer 5:7; Ps 63:12
  11. 11Ps 15:5
  12. 12Ps 16:4; Phil 4:3
  13. 13Ps 16:5; Matt 28:19
  14. 14Ps 101:1; Ps 17:2
  15. 15Ps 17:2
  16. 16Ps 17:3; Ps 119:105; Ps 17:4; John 12:47
  17. 17Ps 18:1; Ps 18:40; Ps 18:42; Gen 18:3; Gen 18:17; Ps 103:5; 2 Sam 19:34–36; Ps 56:2; 2 Sam 1:23
  18. 18Ps 18:5; Ps 51:7; Ps 116:16; Matt 7:25
  19. 19Ezek 3:12; Luke 2:13–14; Ps 19:2; Ps 100:3
  20. 20Ps 19:3; Luke 1:2; Gal 2:2; John 1:45; Exod 14:25; Exod 14:18; Ps 78:34; Ps 83:18–19; Deut 4:19; Ps 19:2; Ps 45:1; Ps 19:5; 1 Cor 3:1
  21. 21Ps 19:7; Ps 50:3; 1 Cor 3:13
  22. 22Ps 20:2; Ps 50:15; Ps 118:5; 1 Sam 17:43; Exod 32:4; 1 Sam 17:45; Ps 20:4; Ps 40:7; Ps 51:18; Ps 51:19; Gal 6:14
  23. 23Ps 20:10; Ps 20:7; Ps 21:2; 2 Tim 4:17; Rom 1:16; Ps 21:3; Ps 119:20; Ps 84:3; Ps 21:4; Acts 9:10–16; Acts 13:22; 1 Sam 16:1; 1 Kgs 20:13
  24. 24Prov 25:4; Prov 22:3; Ps 3:3
  25. 25Ps 37:1; Acts 13:22; Matt 5:19; Ps 37:1–2
  26. 26Ps 39:1; Ps 39:14
  27. 27Ps 39:5; Ps 39:2; Rom 2:21; 1 Cor 4:17

About this work

Author
Asterius the Sophist
Attribution
authentic · The catena on Psalms 1-50 (type VI, Palestinian, 6th century) names Asterius, with the added word 'Arian' in its lemmata, for these extracts. Where a lemma names Asterius together with another writer Richard prints the piece only when the check against the homilies shows it to be Asterius's.
Standing
Not honoured as a saint or in a church calendar by the Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant traditions. A teacher of rhetoric and defender of Arius, in the Eusebian party that held most of the eastern church's sees in his lifetime, so not outside the church of his own generation; not venerated by Catholics, Orthodox, or Protestants.
Date
ca. 320-341 (approximate) · The commentary is Asterius's; the catena that preserves the fragments is of the sixth century.
Written at
Antioch, Syria (disputed)
Language
Greek
Genre
commentary
Reference system
fragment number (Richard's fragments 1-27)
SBL abbreviation
Frg. Ps.Not yet checked
Clavis
CPG 2815 (not yet checked)
Edition
Marcel Richard, ed., Asterii Sophistae Commentariorum in Psalmos quae supersunt, accedunt aliquot homiliae anonymae, Symbolae Osloenses, Fasc. Supplet. 16 (Oslo: Brogger, 1956) (cited, not reproduced)
Critical editions
Marcel Richard, ed., Asterii Sophistae Commentariorum in Psalmos quae supersunt, accedunt aliquot homiliae anonymae, Symbolae Osloenses, Fasc. Supplet. 16 (Oslo: Brogger, 1956) (cited, not reproduced)

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