Although Thomas Aquinas's influence over philosophy endures to this day, the medieval genius did not consider himself a philosopher, but a Scripture scholar. The Aquinas Institute's hardcover Latin-English editions of Aquinas's commentaries on the Letters of St. Paul make many of these commentaries available in English for the first time.The bilingual format makes the work of this intellectual giant accessible to a broader audience than ever before in history. Aquinas's commentaries on the Pauline letters is a great gift for pastors, seminarians, or anyone who seeks a deeper intellectual reflection on Scripture. "This text is really printed with care by someone who has common sense. First of all the scripture in this commentary uses three texts side by side . It has the Douay Rheims translation in English ,the Greek New Testament ,and the Latin Vulgate. Printing this way makes it simple to read Aquinas' commentary without flipping back and forth between a myriad of translations and that is usually what I end up doing with most modern commentaries. I have likewise read a lot of modern commentaries on Sacred Scripture and have seen many wise and good things in them but I have not seen such wise and learned comments on the Bible as Thomas Aquinas shares with us in these books. What he is able to share with us makes the Bible come alive and we are able to see clearly what was once as St. Paul had said," in a glass darkly"."The only persons that I have read that are like him are St. Chrysostomos, St. Jerome, and St. Augustine . Now with Thomas Aquinas' commentaries I am able to contemplate God in a way I was not able to before." - Amazon Review --Endorsement An intellectual giant of the 13th century, Thomas Aquinas is best known for the clarity of thought in his philosophical and theological writings. His primary occupation at the University of Paris was as a theologian and a commentator on Sacred Scripture, and his philosophical work was always at the service of his Scriptural meditations. The writings of Thomas Aquinas remain widely influential to this day. In his thinking, the demands of reason and the power of faith found the most elevated synthesis ever attained by human thought. (John Paul II, Fides et Ratio)