Commentarius in Apocalypsin (Coacervatio enarrationum ex variis sanctis viris in Apocalypsin)
· Arethas of Caesarea
· c. 900-932 (Arethas, archbishop of Caesarea, c. 860-c. 940)
· commentary
Greek · domain: catenae · researched 2026-11-13
no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.
Why this is in the register
HOLLIS Primo 'Arethas of Caesarea commentary on the Apocalypse' (2026-11-13) returns 3 records: a German translation, 'Kommentar zur Offenbarung des Johannes' (Berlin: Logos Verlag, 2015, 356 pp.), whose publisher blurb states 'Arethas' Kommentar wird hier das erste Mal in eine neuzeitliche Sprache uebersetzt' ('here translated for the first time into a modern language'); a collection of English essays; and an Armenian Andrew of Caesarea. HOLLIS 'Greek commentaries on Revelation' returns the IVP Ancient Christian Texts volume (2011), whose table of contents lists only Oecumenius and Andrew of Caesarea - Arethas is explicitly not included. So the only Greek Revelation commentaries in English are Oecumenius (SVS Press, 2006) and Andrew (FOTC 123), not Arethas.
Arethas's is the latest of the three surviving first-millennium Greek commentaries on Revelation and the most original; it depends on Oecumenius and Andrew but repeatedly departs from them. CAUTION: the HOLLIS record attributes the German translation to 'Blumenthal, Albrecht von, 1889-', which may be a reprint of an older translation or a cataloguing error - verify before citing the translator. No open Greek e-text verified in this survey.
No open electronic text was verified for this work. The Greek/Coptic/Geʿez may exist only in a print or subscription edition (Migne, CSCO, TLG, CMCL).
Scanned witnesses
Scan search: open scan — 1 candidate(s). OCR unusable (Latin model on a Greek text); images are microfilm-derived. Re-OCR with -l grc after cropping columns. Checked and negative for a better copy: patrologia-volumes container (PG 106 absent), patrologicursus106migngoog (its metadata describes a different author — 'Ta heuriskomena panta', creator 'Nicephorus, Saint, Patriarch of Constantinople', 1865 — so the identifier numbering does not track PG tome numbers), and the patrologicursusNNNmigngoog items around 73-77 and 140-144, which are dark (/metadata returns {}). No manuscript witness was verified: DigiVatLib is usable here only IIIF-by-shelfmark (search 403), so an Arethas codex could not be looked up.