Visit Catholic Freebies to get free stuff for Catholics. Take a swim at Tiber River . The name given to the author of a commentary on all the Epistles of St. Paul, with the exception of that to the Hebrews. Before each Epistle and its interpretation a short prologue is found which sets forth purpose and context. All in all the commentary is an excellent work.
Some modern scholars believe it the best that was written before the sixteenth century.
Its teaching is entirely orthodox, with, perhaps, the sole exception of the author's belief in the millennium. The Latin text of the Pauline Epistles differs considerably from the Vulgate. In his interpretation of Scriptural works St. Ambrose is not much given to research into the natural and literal meaning. Generally he is in quest of a higher allegoric or mystic sense. And although he distinguishes between the literal and the higher signification, still it is the latter principally that he tries to bring out.