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Commentary on the Lord's Prayer

Orationis dominicae expositio

Written about 628 to 636, perhaps in Carthago (now Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia). The date is disputed or rests on weak evidence.

A short, deep reading of the Lord's Prayer.

Commentary · first written in Greek · a major work

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How we know the date and place
Date written not sure
Jankowiak and Booth, "A New Date-List of the Works of Maximus the Confessor" (2015); Sherwood (1952)
Place written not sure
Written in North Africa, where he lived from about 630; the town is not stated, and Carthage is the usual guess (Louth, Maximus the Confessor, 1996)