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- Aquinas, Bonaventure, and the Scholastic Culture of Medieval Paris
- Aquinas, Bonaventure, and the Scholastic Culture of Medieval Paris
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One Preliminaries
- Part Two Thomas Aquinas
- 4 Rigans Montes
- 5 Hic Est Liber
- 6 Thomas’s Student Prologues
- 7 After Inception
- 8 I Have Seen the Lord
- 9 Aquinas, Sermo Modernus–Style Preaching, and Biblical Commentary
- Part Three Bonaventure
- Appendix 1 Outlines of the Divisiones Textus of the Books of the Bible from the Inception Resumptio Addresses of Four Thirteenth-Century Masters
- Works Cited
- Index
8 - I Have Seen the Lord
Thomas’s Protreptic Prologue to His Commentary on the Gospel of John
from Part Two - Thomas Aquinas
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2021
- Aquinas, Bonaventure, and the Scholastic Culture of Medieval Paris
- Aquinas, Bonaventure, and the Scholastic Culture of Medieval Paris
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One Preliminaries
- Part Two Thomas Aquinas
- 4 Rigans Montes
- 5 Hic Est Liber
- 6 Thomas’s Student Prologues
- 7 After Inception
- 8 I Have Seen the Lord
- 9 Aquinas, Sermo Modernus–Style Preaching, and Biblical Commentary
- Part Three Bonaventure
- Appendix 1 Outlines of the Divisiones Textus of the Books of the Bible from the Inception Resumptio Addresses of Four Thirteenth-Century Masters
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
One of Thomas’s most elegant and most philosophically profound prologues was one of his last: the prologue to his Commentary on the Gospel of John, crafted during his second regency at Paris (1268–1272). The entire prologue was structured around a single sentence from Isaiah 6:1: “I saw the Lord seated on a throne high and lofty, and the whole earth was full of his majesty, and the things that were under him completely filled the temple” (Vidi dominum sedentem super solium excelsum et elevatum, et plena erat omnis terra maiestate eius, et ea quae sub ipso erant, replebant templum).
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- Aquinas, Bonaventure, and the Scholastic Culture of Medieval ParisPreaching, Prologues, and Biblical Commentary, pp. 173 - 197Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021