Peter Chrysologus
5th century · AD 450 · Western · 160 passages
Background on Peter Chrysologus
In his own words on Hosea
- Hosea 2:19-20
A betrothed woman was chosen, so that Christ's church might already be symbolically indicated as bride, according to the words of the prophet Hosea: "I will make you my bride in justice and right; I will make you my bride in mercy and benevolence, and I will espouse you in fidelity." Thus John says, "He who has a bride is the bridegroom." And blessed Paul: "I have promised you to one bridegroom, to present you to Christ as a chaste virgin." She is truly a bride who regenerates the new infancy of Christ by a virginal birth.
SERMON 146
Quoted verbatim from public-domain English translations of the fathers — Aquinas's Catena Aurea, the Ante-Nicene and Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers, and related editions. Each quotation links to its source.