Long know to have existed, scholars assumed the commentary of Fortunatianus of Aquileia was lost. St. Jerome called the commentary a “pearl without price,” and that gem has now turned up copied into a work from the about year 800. Fortunatianus lived 1600 years ago.
Oldest Gospel commentary discovered
Long know to have existed, scholars assumed the commentary of Fortunatianus of Aquileia was lost. St. Jerome called the commentary a “pearl without price,” and that gem has now turned up copied into a work from the about year 800. Fortunatianus lived 1600 years ago.
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