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In his Commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics Aquinas claimed it was weak will that allowed a non-virtuous man to choose a principle allowing pleasure ahead of one requiring moral constraint.
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* Homiletic commentaries on the Old Testament: the Hexaemeron ( Six Days of Creation ); De Helia et ieiunio ( On Elijah and Fasting ); De Iacob et vita beata ( On Jacob and the Happy Life ); De Abraham ; De Cain et Abel ; De Ioseph ( Joseph ); De Isaac vel anima ( On Isaac, or The Soul ); De Noe ( Noah ); De interpellatione Iob et David ( On the Prayer of Job and David ); De patriarchis ( On the Patriarchs ); De Tobia ( Tobit ); Explanatio psalmorum ( Explanation of the Psalms ); Explanatio symboli ( Commentary on the Symbol ).
* Robert B. Todd, 1976, Alexander of Aphrodisias on Stoic Physics: A Study of the " De Mixtione " with Preliminary Essays, Text, Translation and Commentary.
* The text of Ambrosiaster's Commentary on the Epistles of Paul, taken from Migne's Patrologia Latina vol 17, and attributed to Ambrose, is available here.
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All of Origen's works written after 218 are dedicated to Ambrose, including his On Martyrdom, Contra Celsum, Commentary on St. John's Gospel, and On Prayer.
One further oddity in his writings is that in one of his works, the Commentary on the Seven Catholic Epistles, he writes in a manner that gives the impression he was married.
" Another passage, in the Commentary on Luke, also mentions a wife in the first person: " Formerly I possessed a wife in the lustful passion of desire and now I possess her in honourable sanctification and true love of Christ.
The works dealing with the Old Testament included Commentary on Samuel, Commentary on Genesis, Commentaries on Ezra and Nehemiah, On the Temple, On the Tabernacle, Commentaries on Tobit, Commentaries on Proverbs, Commentaries on the Song of Songs, Commentaries on the Canticle of Habakkuk, The works on Ezra, the Tabernacle and the Temple were especially influenced by Gregory the Great's writings.
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( 1989 ) ' John Buridan's Philosophy of Mind: An Edition and Translation of Book III of His ' Questions on Aristotle's De Anima ( Third Redaction ), with Commentary and Critical and Interpretative Essays.
* Antonina Alberti and Robert W. Sharples, eds., Aspasius: The Earliest Extant Commentary on Aristotle's Ethics ( de Gruyter, 1999 ) ISBN 3-11-016081-1
Saint Gregory's Commentary on Job, or Moralia, sive Expositio in Job, sometimes called Magna Moralia, but not to be confused with Aristotle's Great Ethics known by the same title, was written between 578 and 595, begun when Gregory was at the court of Tiberius II at Constantinople, but finished only after he had already been in Rome for several years.
* Commentary on Aristotle's Physics Philoponus ' most important commentary, in which he challenges Aristotle on time, space, void, matter and dynamics.
Commentary and Ethics
* Paradise Restored-The Social Ethics of Francis of Assisi, A Commentary on Francis's ' Salutation of the Virtues, by Jan Hoebrichts, Franciscan Institute Publications, 2004.
Commentary and Aquinas
The origin of the notion of synderesis as presented here can be traced, on the one hand, to the Commentary on Ezechiel by Saint Jerome ( A. D. 347-419 ), where syntéresin ( συντήρησιν ) is mentioned among the powers of the soul and is described as the spark of conscience ( scintilla conscientiae ) and, on the other, to the interpretation of Jerome's text given, in the 13th Century, by Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas in the light of Aristotelian psychology and ethics.
St. Thomas Aquinas in his Commentary on the Master of the Sentences thus explains its peculiar use: " Since it is requisite for the remission of sin that a man cast away entirely the liking for sin which implies a sort of continuity and solidity in his mind, the act which obtains forgiveness is termed by a figure of speech ' contrition '" ( In Lib.
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