Commentary on Isaiah (Ancient Christian Texts)

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Eusebius of Caesarea (ca. 260--ca. 340), one of the early church's great polymaths, produced significant works as a historian (Ecclesiastical History), geographer (Onomasticon), philologist, exegete (commentaries on the Psalms and Isaiah), apologist (Preparation for and Demonstration of the Gospel) and theologian. His Commentary on Isaiah is one of his major exegetical works and the earliest extant Christian commentary on the great prophet. Geographically situated between Alexandria and Antioch, Eusebius approached the text giving notable attention to historical detail and possible allegorical interpretation. But above all, employing the anologia fidei, he drew his readers' attention to other passages of Scripture that share a common vocabulary and theological themes, thus allowing Scripture to interpret Scripture.

Here, for the first time in English, Jonathan Armstrong provides readers with a highly serviceable translation of Eusebius's notably difficult Greek text, along with a helpful introduction and notes.

Ancient Christian Texts are new English translations of full-length commentaries or sermon series from ancient Christian authors that allow you to study key writings of the early church fathers in a fresh way.

The Rev. Joel C. Elowsky (Ph.D., Drew University) has served as operations manager for the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture and is the volume editor for its two volumes on John's Gospel. He is executive director of the Center for Early African Christianity and executive editor for the Works of Early African Christianity, and has served as adjunct professor of religion at Drew University.

Jonathan J. Armstrong (Ph.D., Fordham University) is assistant professor of Bible and theology at Moody Bible Institute - Spokane, Washington. He is also president of the Aqueduct Project, a nonprofit organziation seeking to provide affordable access to quality theological education to the global evangelical community. Armstrong has done postdoctoral research in ancient church history at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. He also served as a graduateresearch assistant to Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J. He holds memberships with the North American Patristics Society and the Evangelical Theological Society. Armstrong is author of the forthcoming monograph The Role of the Rule of Faith in the Formation of the New Testament Canon.