Catena of the Greek Fathers on the Book of Job

Catena Graecorum patrum in beatum Iob · Nicetas of Heraclea · late 11th c. (Nicetas, metropolitan of Heraclea, fl. c. 1070-1100) · commentary

Greek · domain: catenae · researched 2026-11-13

Why this is in the register

HOLLIS Primo 'catena in Job Greek' (2026-11-13) returns the 1637 London edition in three records, all Greek with Latin: 'Catena Graecorum patrum in beatum Iob, collectore Niceta Heracleae Metropolita ex duobus MSS. Bibliothecae Bodleianae codicibus, Graece nunc primum in lucem edita, & Latine versa', edited by Patrick Young (Londini: ex typographio regio, 1637), 616 pp. HOLLIS 'catena on Job English translation' returns 0. The Greek text of Job's catena is also the main channel for Olympiodorus of Alexandria's commentary on Job, which exists in a German-only edition ('Kommentar zu Hiob', 1984, grc;ger). No English translation of the catena exists; the standard series carry no Job catena.

The 1637 front matter lists the excerpted authors: Apollinaris, Athanasius, Basil, Chrysostom, Clement of Alexandria, Cyril, Didymus, Dionysius of Alexandria, Ephrem, Evagrius, Eusebius, Gregory of Nazianzus, Gregory of Nyssa, Isidore, Julian of Halicarnassus, Methodius, Nilus, Olympiodorus, Origen, Polychronius, Severus and Theophilus of Alexandria. The same volume is a principal witness for the Greek text of Job.

Existing translations recorded

None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.

Electronic text

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: not checked. Not searched in the scan pass: this dossier was outside the 121-work scan target set.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: Nicetas of Heraclea Catena of the Greek Fathers on the Book — 1 record(s); match basis author_title_unquoted.

Sources checked

• https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1475-1640_catena-grcorum-patrum-i_nicetas-bp_1637
• HOLLIS search — Catena Graecorum patrum in beatum Iob collectore Niceta
• HOLLIS search — catena in Job Greek

Cite: Tergwame, “Catena of the Greek Fathers on the Book of Job” (greek gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/greek-nicetas-job