Abstract
Nicholas of Lyra was one of the most skilled and productive of the late medieval commentators on the Pauline Epistles, drawing together as he did significant strands of the tradition. Lyra maintained that he was actually following the great Jewish exegete Rabbi Solomon ben Isaac, otherwise known as Rashi. Lyra contended that the Jews were in fact denying their own Scriptures when they refused to accept Jesus Christ, for he thought that they were missing the very literal sense of the Old Testament, which proclaims the Messiahship of Christ. This chapter examines the Lyra's handling of the various senses of Scripture in greater detail. In their quest for an accurate determination of the literal sense of Scripture, both Nicholas of Lyra and Paul of Burgos have been attempting to secure the veracity of Scripture so that it might stand as the final authority in all matters of doctrine. Keywords:Holy Scripture; Nicholas of Lyra; Paul of Burgos; Pauline epistles
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