Scripture commentary · 16th century

The Art of Expounding Scripture

Name: The Art of Expounding Scripture
Author: Sixtus of Siena, O.P.

Sixtus of Siena, O.P. (1520–1569) · translated from the Latin of the Bibliotheca Sancta, Book III

The author's name is also rendered Sixtus Senensis · Sisto da Siena · Sixtus of Sienna

The third book of the Holy Library: the whole art of expounding the sacred volumes, digested into its parts and its twenty-four methods. Sixtus treats the twofold sense of Scripture, the historical and mystical expositions and their right use, and the elemental, physical, and prophetic expositions; then the methods one by one — translation, the stigmatic and syllabic modes, partition, epitome, excerpt, the notariac marks, paraphrase, lexicon, gloss, commentary, the shadow-drawing and tabular expositions, homily, collation, meditation, verse, epistle, inquiry, catena, accumulation, the thematic and scholastic methods, and pandesia — each defined and each shown in a worked example, most upon the hundred-and-sixteenth psalm; with the woodcut of the high priest's vesture explained letter by letter. In English for the first time.

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Contents

Preface; the Definition, Division, and Twofold Sense of Exposition folio 133–134
The Two Kinds of Exposition of the Sacred Writings folio 134–136
The Use and Usefulness of the Historical and Mystical Exposition folio 136–138
The Elemental, Physical, and Prophetic Expositions folio 138–145
On Invention and Disposition folio 145–146
The First Method: Sacred Translation folio 146–147
The Second Method: the Stigmatic Exposition folio 147–149
The Third Method: the Syllabic Exposition folio 149–152
The Fourth Method: Partition folio 152–154
The Fifth Method: the Epitome folio 154–155
The Sixth Method: the Ecloge, or Excerpt folio 155–157
The Seventh Method: the Notariac Exposition, and the Marks folio 157–160
The Eighth Method: Paraphrase folio 160–161
The Ninth Method: the Lexical Exposition folio 162
The Tenth Method: Annotation, and the Glosses folio 162–163
The Eleventh Method: Commentary folio 163
The Twelfth Method: the Sciographic Exposition folio 163–165
The Thirteenth Method: the Tabular Exposition folio 165–166
The Fourteenth Method: Narration folio 166–168
The Fifteenth Method: Collation folio 168
The Sixteenth Method: Meditation folio 168–169
The Seventeenth Method: the Poetic Exposition folio 169–170
The Eighteenth Method: the Epistle folio 170
The Nineteenth Method: Inquiry folio 170–171
The Twentieth Method: the Collected Exposition, and the Catenae folio 171–174
The Twenty-First Method: Accumulation folio 174–175
The Twenty-Second Method: the Thematic Exposition folio 175
The Twenty-Third Method: the Scholastic Method folio 175–186
The Twenty-Fourth Method: Pandesia folio 186
Peroration; Which Expositors to Choose; the Titles of the Whole Art folio 187–189