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Title and preface of the Sixth Book

BIBLIOTHECA SANCTA — BOOK VI

By Friar Sixtus of Siena, of the Order of Preachers: On the ANNOTATIONS AND CENSURES upon the interpreters & expositors of the divine volumes of the New Testament — [being] of the Bibliotheca Sancta (the Holy Library)

Although in the preface of the preceding book I had promised to comprise all the annotations upon the expositors of both Testaments together in a single volume — lest I should sunder matters joined by the affinity of one and the same kind, and rashly multiply the number of books — nevertheless, when I observed that the annotating labor I had begun was swelling to a magnitude far greater than my expectation, and was exceeding the measure of the other volumes, it seemed good [to me] to divide the work into two books, and to embrace in this sixth book of the Library the Annotations and Censures which pertain to the expositors of the New Testament: so that by a partition of this kind I might, so far as could be done, preserve the equality [balance] among the volumes, and might breathe [rest] for some few days from the unremitting weariness of reading and writing.

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Sixtus of Siena, O.P., “Title and preface of the Sixth Book,” in Annotations on the New Testament, English translation, Mind of the Church, https://mindofthechurch.com/works/bibliotheca-sancta-nt/001-title-and-preface-of-the-sixth-book/.

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