Commentary on the Psalms: Psalm 51 (52)

Commentaria in Psalmos

Written about 325 to 339, probably in Caesarea Maritima (now Caesarea, Israel). The date is the usual view of scholars; some doubt it.

One psalm from his very large commentary on the Psalms: the psalm on Doeg, who betrayed David to Saul.

Commentary · first written in Greek

A selection: one psalm only.

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How we know the date and place

Date written probable: The commentary is a late work, after 325 (Hollerich, in studies of the Commentary on the Psalms; Quasten, Patrology vol. 3)
Place written probable: Eusebius was bishop of Caesarea and worked from its library; no source names another place