![]() ![]() Ebert dates the Instructions back as far as 239. 1568 1568 The author upbraids the Gentiles for persevering in unbelief after Christianity had existed for 200 years (VI. The first poem is entitled "Instructions for the Christian Life," written about a.d. His vulgar African latinity is a landmark in the history of the Latin language and poetry in the transition to the Romance literature of the middle ages. Hence he is assigned by Pope Gelasius to the apocryphal writers. Commodian was a Patripassian in christology and a Chiliast in eschatology. They are poetically and theologically worthless, but not unimportant for the history of practical Christianity, and reveal under a rude dress with many superstitious notions, an humble and fervent Christian heart. 568 He wrote about the middle of the third century two works in the style of vulgar African latinity, in uncouth versification and barbarian hexameter, without regard to quantity and hiatus. 1567 1567 Ebert suggests that he was a Jewish proselyte but in the introduction to the first poem he says that he formerly worshipped the gods (deos vanos), which he believed to be demons, like most of the patristic writers. 567 He was converted from heathenism by the study of the Scriptures, especially of the Old Testament. The older interpretation is preferable, from Gaza ( γάζα), treasure, or gazophylacium ( γαζοφυλάκιον) treasury, which indicates either his possession of the treasure of saving truth or his dependence for support on the treasury of the church. ![]() But in this case he would have written in Greek or in Syriac. Ebert understands this geographically, from the city of Gaza in Syria. In the last section of his second poem, he calls himself Gazaeus. Commodian gives no indication of his clerical status, but it may be fairly inferred from his learning. of the second poem be is called a bishop. 610–611.Ĭommodian was probably a clergyman in North Africa. 163–302 (he presents a revised Latin text with philological explanations). Hermann Rönsch, in the " Zeitschrift für historische Theologie" for 1872, No. Gentes et Judaeos, Schmalkalden, 1871 (he clears up many points). Leimbach, in an Easter Programme on Commodian’s Carmen apol. Ebert, in an appendix to his essay on Tertullian’s relation to Minucius Felix, Leipz. Jacobi in Schneider’s " Zeitschrift für christl. Wallis in Clark’s "Ante-Nicene Library," vol. Dombart, Vienna.Įnglish translation of the first poem (but in prose) by R. Theol." for 1872.īoth poems were edited together by E. 222–224 and better by Rönsch in the "Zeitschrift für hist. 537–543, and with new emendations of the corrupt text in Tom. Pitra in the "Spicilegium Solesmense," Tom. The second work was discovered and published by Card. The Instructiones were discovered by Sirmond, and first edited by Rigault at Toul, 1650 more recently by Fr. (I.) Commodianus: Instructiones adversus Gentium Deos pro Christiana Disciplina, and Carmen Apologeticum adversus Judaeos et Gentes. ![]()
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