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Erasmus in 1527 threw doubt on the accuracy of this ascription, and the author is usually spoken of as Ambrosiaster or pseudo-Ambrose. Owing to the fact that See also:

Augustine cites See also:

PART

part of the commentary on See also:

Romans as by " Sanctus See also:

Hilarius " it has been ascribed by various critics at different times to almost every known Hilary. Dom G. See also:

MORIN, JEAN (latinized JOANNES MORINUS) (1591-1659)

Morin (Rev.d'hist. et de lift. religieuses, torn. iv. 97 f.) See also:

broke new ground by suggesting in 1899 that the writer was See also:

ISAAC (Hebrew for " he laughs," on explanatory references to the name, see ABRAHAM)

Isaac, a converted See also:

JEW, THE WANDERING

Jew, writer of a See also:

TRACT (from Lat. tractare, to treat of a matter, through Provencal tractat and Ital. trattato)

tract on the Trinity and Incarnation, who was exiled to See also:

Spain in 378-380 and then relapsed to Judaism, but he after-wards abandoned this theory of the authorship in favour of Decimus Hilarianus Hilarius, proconsul of See also:

Africa in 377. With this attribution See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

Professor Alex. Souter, in his Study of Ambrosiaster (See also:

Cambridge Univ. See also:

PRESS (through Fr. presse from Lat. pressare, frequentative of premere, to crush, squeeze, press)

Press, 1905), agrees. There is scarcely anything to be said for the possibility of Ambrose having written the See also:

BOOK

book before he became a See also:

bishop, and added to it in later years, incorporating remarks of Hilary of See also:

POITIERS

Poitiers on Romans. The best presentation of the See also:

case for Ambrose is by P.

A. Ballerini in his See also:

COMPLETE

complete edition of that See also:

FATHER

father's See also:

WORKS

works. In the book cited above Professor Souter also discusses the authorship of the Owes-hones Veteris et Novi Testamenti, which the See also:

MSS. ascribe to Augustine. He concludes, on very thorough philological and other grounds,'that this is with one possible slight exception the See also:

WORK

work of the same " Ambrosiaster." The same conclusion had been arrived at previously by Dom Morin.

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