An interesting email from John Litteral:
I just wanted to let you know that I have started translating the Bible commentaries by Oecumenius. So far I have translated James, 1-2 Peter, and I am starting on the epistles of John now. I plan to do them all, Acts-Jude, and perhaps Revelation, but since that has been translated into English multiple times I may not do Revelation.
I have already published James and 1-2 Peter, and I have put them on Archive for free.
Oecumenius has been my favorite Bible commentator for a long time, so I am excited to be the first to translate his commentaries on the Catholic Epistles and God willing to do Acts and Paul’s epistles.
- Here’s 1-2 Peter commentaries on Archive.org: https://archive.org/
details/1-2-pet-oecumenius - Here’s the James commentary: https://archive.
org/details/oecumeniusarchive
The translations have been made from the Patrologia Graeca text.
Excellent news! Let us hope that the author does still more of the commentaries!
You might also be interested in the recent/forthcoming books by Marcon on Romans (https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111437842/html) and Bates on Ephesians, with an English translation (https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isbn/9783111692357/html).
Although neither is open access, their data is: https://purl.org/itsee/marcon and https://purl.org/itsee/bates
You know I can’t resist a good Latin puzzle. That doesn’t improve my skill, though. Still, here’s what I’d lean towards. Given my rudimentary Latin, there are likely some mistakes mixed in with my translation choices:
Almighty God’s kindness — compassionate for the faults of the human race, which from ancient times by the serpent was stripped of the glory granted from heaven, in ignorance condemned to darkness — desired to demonstrate the richness of his mercy in their restoration, so that the glory of the light from which they had blindly strayed might be restored through the light of his ineffable grace.
Thank you! Sorry about the delay in replying – no comments have passed the approval filter for days!
Anne, I have reposted your comment to the correct thread!