Coptic Homilies in the Dialect of Upper Egypt

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Christianity - Other

Authors: E. A. Wallis Budge In Year : 1910

Book Language: English

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I. The Discourse of Apa John, Archbishop of Constantinople, Pronounced Concerning Repentance and Continence. (Part 1)
I. The Discourse of Apa John, Archbishop of Constantinople, Pronounced Concerning Repentance and Continence. (Part 2)
II. Also the Explanation of Apa John, Archbishop of Constantinople, concerning Susanna.
III. The Discourse of Saint Athanasius, Archbishop of Eakote, on Mercy and Judgment.
IV. The Discourse of Archbishop Theophilus, which he pronounced on Repentance and Continence, and also how a man must not neglect to repent before the last times come upon him.
V. The Discourse which Saint Athanasius, Archbishop of Rakote, pronounced concerning the passage in the Gospel of Saint Matthew, 'The kingdom which is in the heavens is like unto a rich man who came out in the morning to hire labourers for his vineyard.'
VI. The Discourse pronounced by Proclus, Bishop of Cyzicus, in the Church of Anthemius in Constantinople, on the last Sunday in Lent, when he was installed in the archiepiscopal seat, and Nestorius the heretic was present.
VII. The Discourse which Proclus, Bishop of Cyzicus, pronounced in the great church of Constantinople when Nestorius the heretic was present, concerning his contemptible dogma, on the Sunday which preceded the holy Forty Days.
VIII. The Discourse which Apa Basil, Bishop of Caesarea of Cappadocia, pronounced concerning the end of the world, and the temple of Solomon, and the going forth from the body.
IX. The Discourse which the holy Patriarch, Apa Athanasius, Archbishop of Rakote, pronounced concerning the Soul and the Body.
X. The Discourse which Apa Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea of Cappadocia, pronounced concerning the Canaanitish woman.

The present work contains the Coptic versions of ten Greek Homilies on fasting, repentance, the end of the world, the Incarnation, etc., which are attributed to John the Faster, Athanasius of Alexandria, Proclus of Cyzicus, Eusebius and Basil of Caesarea, and Archbishop Theophilus. The texts, written in the dialect of Upper Egypt.

Linguistically the texts are of great importance, and they form a mass of material which is of the highest value to Egyptologists generally. From the theological point of view they are no less interesting, for they illustrate Egyptian Theology in its Christian form, and reveal the opinions which were current among the dwellers in monasteries on the essentials of faith and works. (Summary from the preface)