FIFTH CENTURY. YEAR 407.
TABLE OF CONTENTS OF THE WORKS CONTAINED IN THIS FIFTY-FOURTH VOLUME.
Continuation of the Homilies on Genesis. col. 385 Nine Sermons on Genesis. 581 Five Sermons on Anna. 631 Three Homilies on David and Saul. 675 Notes of various authors. 709
NOTICE.
Perhaps you will wonder, kind reader, why, while in all the volumes preceding and following this one the Latin translation of Saint John Chrysostom and the holy Fathers runs column by column beside the Greek text, in this current edition of our same holy Doctor, the Latin page is placed only alongside the Greek page. The cause for this—and a unique one at that—was that before we had conceived the intention of assembling the entire tradition of the holy Fathers of the Greek Church, we had already, fifteen years ago, published the works of Saint John Chrysostom separately in Latin only, and had committed them to permanent type. As matters stood, and since it was not within our power to shift this permanent type, nor was it in our intention to destroy the nine volumes of this purely Latin edition—which had already been entirely committed to permanent type and had cost more than sixty thousand francs—we happily found this method, though not without labor and expense, of adapting them to this new edition, which thus becomes enriched in both the Greek and the Latin language.
Paris. — From the Press of J.-P. MIGNE.