This list is compiled from the article by Walter Bauer "Matthew 19:12 and the Ancient Christians" mentioned in the notes to the Introduction. It is provided here to assist scholars who wish to do research on eunuchs in the ancient world.

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Ambrosius, de vidius 13
Ambrosius, de viduis 13,75.76: voluntas facit, non infirmitas continentem;
Athanasius, Historia Arianorum ad monachos c. 28
Athenagoras (Suppl. 33. 34) calls the non-married state eunoucia, and the unmarried man eunoucos
Augustine Confess. II,2,3, VIII,1,2,
Augustine contra Faustum VI, 30,4,
Augustine de adulterinis coniug. 18 (=19)
Augustine de sancta virginitate 23
Augustine, contra advers. leg. et proph. I,24
Augustine, Pseudo-, Quaestiones Vet. et Novi Test. (verse ignored)
Basilius of Ancyra, de virginitate 57
Basilius of Ancyra, de virginitate 61
Basilius the Great, letter 115
Canon canones apostolorum 21-23
Canon second synod of Arles 7
Chrysostomus de virginitate 36
Chrysostomus, de virginitate 49
Chrysostomus, Hom. 62 (63), 3.4 in Matt.
Chrysostomus, Homily on John 5:19 Section 2 t. VI, p. 258
Chrysostomus ep. ad Gal. Maurin Edition X, p. 717
Clement of Alexandria, Paed. III 4,26
Clement of Alexandria, Strom. III 1,1
Clement of Alexandria, Strom. III 1,4
Clement of Alexandria, Strom. III 6,49-50
Clement of Alexandria, Strom. III 7,59
Clement of Alexandria, Strom. III 13,91, Julius Cassian in
Clement of Alexandria, Strom. III 14,99
Cyprian, de habitu virginum 4, Testim. III, 32
Cyprian, Pseudo-, in de singularitate clericorum 31. 37
Cyril of Alexandria, fragment Nova patrum bibliotheca II, 1844, pp. 494-497
Epiphanius, Expositio fidei 13, p. 1095
Epiphanius, Haeresis LVIII 3.4
Epiphanius, Haeresis XXI 5
Epiphanius, Haeresis 64.3
Eusebius historia ecclesiae V 24.5
Eusebius historia ecclesiae VI 3.10
Eusebius historia ecclesiae VI 8.1.2
Eusebius, Demonstrantia evangelorum III 6.5
Euthymius, Commentaria in Mattheum 19:12
Gregory Nazianzen, orationes 37.16-21
Hilarius, on this verse
Isho'dad on this verse
Isidor of Pelusium, epistola IV 165
Jerome Opus imperf. in Matth. (Chrys. Maurin Edition), p. CXXXVI;
Jerome, adversus Iovinianum I,12
Jerome, Comm. in Is. XV, 56
Jerome, Comm. in Matt. III, 19 e
Jerome, Comm. in Sophon. proph. I, t. VI, p. 674
Jerome, Epistola 65
John Damascenus, de fide orthodoxa IV 24;
John Damascenus, Sacra parallela V 27 peri eunoucwn
Justin, Apologia I, 15
Justin, Apologia I, 29
Methodius of Olympus, Banquet Talk I 1, II 7
Origen, Comm. in Matt. XV, 1-5 peri diaforas eunoucwn
Petrus of Laodicea
Pseudo-Theophilus (verse ignored)
Sulpicius Severus, letters under the name of, II, 2
Tertullian, de monogamia 3
Tertullian de pat. 13
Theodoret of Kyros, Haer. fab. V, 24
Theophylactus, Enarr. in Ev. Matth.
Vita Sabae per Cyrill. Scythopolit. 41 (Cotelerius, Eccles. graecae monumenta III, 1686, pp. 284 et seqq.)
Beda Venerabilis
Rabanus Maurus
Paschasius Radbert
Walafried Strabo
Thomas Aquino