Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume X/Selections from Letters

by Philip Schaff et al.

Note on the Letters of St. Ambrose.

Of the 91 Epistles considered genuine by the Benedictine Editors, sixty-three are referred by them to fairly certain dates,^[1] and a large number of these would well be worth translation, throwing as they do so clear a light on the events of St. Ambrose’s life, and in many cases on the history of the period. Only a few are here presented to the reader.

Perhaps some others might have been better selected, but if they were to be so few, it seemed as if these would give the best general impression of the indomitable energy and fearless constancy of the great Bishop.

Contents

• Memorial of Symmachus
• Epistle XVII
• Memorial of Symmachus 2
• Epistle XVIII
• Epistle XX
• Letter XXI
• Sermon Against Auxentius
• Letter XXII
• Letter XL
• Letter XLI
• Letter LI
• Letter LVII
• Letter LXI
• Letter LXII
• Epistle LXIII

Footnotes

1. This is really in excess of the number which are now to be considered as fixed in date.