Gennadius

Gennadius of Constantinople (died 471) was patriarch of the imperial city and a respected exegete. His comments on the Pauline epistles and other books survive chiefly as excerpts in Greek catenae.

Gennadius's verse-by-verse remarks on Paul, especially Romans, survive mostly as excerpts gathered in the Greek catenae — the medieval "chains" that strung together short comments from many Fathers beside the biblical text. As a representative of the Antiochene concern for the plain, historical sense, his notes help modern readers recover how the Greek church read the apostle.

Brief and pointed, his surviving comments are a useful witness to the fifth-century Greek reading of Paul, preserved precisely because later compilers judged them worth copying beside the sacred text.