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Saturday, March 22, 2025

After mid-4th Century, did Christian writers and preachers re-discover Paul's emphasis on RIGHTEOUSNESS?

Prof. D.H. Williams in his Introduction to

a 2012 translation of St. Hilary of Poitier's

COMMENTARY ON MATTHEW (FC vol. 125:

CUA Press, Washington,D.C.) pages 32-33 :

Hilary's emphasis on the bestowal of God's

righteousness upon a helpless race before

the demands of the Law represents a more

pronounced application of this side of Paul's

thought than is perceptible in any previous

writer.  There is the strong likelihood that

Hilary's commentary was the earliest stimulus

for the revival of Pauline studies in the Western

Roman empire during the last decades (4th Century).

Within a decade of Hilary's work a concerted

interest in Pauline texts and themes is evident

among such widely divergent thinkers as

Marius Victorinus / Augustine of Hippo /

Tyconius / Pelagius / Priscillian of Avila.

footnote 117: two writers produced commentaries

on all Paul's Epistles: Ambrosiaster & Pelagius.

Marius V. in the 360s wrote on Ephesians, Galatians,

& Philippians while Jerome wrote on Galatians,

Ephesians, Philemon.

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