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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Commentaries on the Bible |
 | | There was a story among the Jews in the Middle Ages to the effect that Aristotle accompanied Alexander the Great to Jerusalem, and, with characteristic Greek craftiness, obtained possession of the wisdom of Solomon, which he subsequently palmed off on his countrymen as his own. |
 | | Most of the patristic commentaries are in the form of homilies, or discourses to the faithful, and range over the whole of Scripture. |
 | | Great as was the merit of the work of Maldonatus, it was equalled by the commentary on the Epistles by Estius (born at Gorcum, Holland, 1542), a secular priest, and superior of the College at Douai. |
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