Exposition of the Epistles of Blessed Paul, Collected from the Works of Saint Augustine

Expositio in epistolas beati Pauli ex operibus sancti Augustini collecta · Florus of Lyon · c. 820-840 · commentary

Latin · domain: latin-carolingian-theology-canon · researched 2026-11-14

Why this is in the register

HOLLIS 'Florus Lyon Pauline commentary English' returns only two unrelated English books (Kevin Hughes on Antichrist exegesis, and a Gorgias volume on catenae), and 'Florus of Lyon' returns sixty-five records that are editions and studies in French, German or Latin: Shari Boodts, Les douze compilations pauliniennes de Florus de Lyon (Ecole francaise de Rome, 2016), Klaus Zechiel-Eckes, Florus von Lyon als Kirchenpolitiker und Publizist (1999), and the 2014 Brepols Corpus Christianorum edition of the Opera polemica. The only English rendering of any Florus text that I could locate is his 'Sermon on Predestination', translated in Genke and Gumerlock's 2010 Gottschalk volume. The commentary itself is printed in Migne, Patrologia Latina 119, whose OCR confirms the title heading and the running heads 'FLORI'. No complete or partial English translation of the commentary was found.

Florus compiled the most widely copied Latin commentary on Paul in the early Middle Ages by stitching Augustine's own words into a continuous exposition, and the work survives in a dozen distinct authorial versions that Boodts has only recently untangled. Without a translation, the standard medieval channel for Augustinian Paulinism is invisible in English, and the Carolingian reception of Augustine on grace looks like a quarrel about Gottschalk rather than a century of exegetical labour.

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: Florus of Lyon — 65 record(s); match basis author_only.

Sources checked

• https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_patrologiae-cursus-completus-_1852_119
• HOLLIS search — Florus Lyon Pauline commentary English
• HOLLIS search — Florus Lyon predestination English
• HOLLIS search — Florus of Lyon

Cite: Tergwame, “Exposition of the Epistles of Blessed Paul, Collected from the Works of Saint Augustine” (latin gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/latin-florus-expositio-epistolas-pauli