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Leather. Condition: VERY GOOD. xxxi, [3], 572. Large 8vo, bound in half red over red cloth. Greek text with critical apparatus and Latin commentary. Leather shows some rubbing, otherwise a clean, tight copy. Very scarce. Theodore was a companion and friend of Chrysostom and the pre-eminent exemplar of the Antiochene school of hermeneutics. His magnificent legacy as a theologian and exegete were obscured by the charge of Nestorianism pronounced in the anathema of the second Council of Constantinople. One of the most important among the multiple 20th century Mopsuestia mss discoveries was his commentary on the Psalms, presented here in the original Greek. His Psalms commentary is a stunning display of the critical acumen which made him the foremost Biblical interpreter of the Syrian church.…