Positive reconstruction · reader-scoped, not an inferred-absence lacuna
This reconstruction covers the readable fraction of Thomas Aquinas's formation -- attested reading and writing only, not the whole of a life.
Thomas Aquinas and Commentary on Matthew
Thomas Aquinas's attested relationship to Commentary on Matthew.
Thomas Aquinas is attested as having read this work by Jerome.
Evidence ledger
- The Summa's discussions of Gospel passages repeatedly cite Jerome's Commentary on Matthew as a patristic exegetical authority.