Exposition of the Gospel of Luke

Expositio evangelii secundum Lucam

Written about 377 to 390, probably in Mediolanum (now Milan, Italy). The date is the usual view of scholars; some doubt it.

His one commentary on a Gospel, made from sermons.

Commentary · first written in Latin · a major work

The corpus has a record but no English text file.

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How we know the date and place

Date written probable: Made about 389 to 390 from sermons of 377 and after (Di Berardino (ed.), Patrology vol. 4 (1986); Ramsey, Ambrose (1997))
Place written probable: Ambrose was bishop of Milan from 374 to 397 and wrote for that church (Paulinus, Life of Ambrose; McLynn, Ambrose of Milan, 1994)