Commentary on Matthew

In Matthaeum

Written about 353 to 356, probably in Limonum (Pictavi), now Poitiers, France. The date is the usual view of scholars; some doubt it.

The oldest Latin commentary on Matthew that survives whole.

Commentary · first written in Latin · a major work

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How we know the date and place

Date written probable: Before his exile in 356 (Doignon, Sources chrétiennes 254, 1978)
Place written probable: Hilary was bishop of Poitiers from about 350 (Jerome, On Illustrious Men 100; Di Berardino (ed.), Patrology vol. 4 (1986))