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Commentary on St Luke

Cyril of Alexandria · Translated by R. Payne Smith · Oxford, 1859

What this is

One hundred and fifty-six sermons preached through the gospel of St Luke in order, a passage at a time, by the archbishop of Alexandria who died in 444.

How it survives

The Greek original is lost. What survives is a Syriac translation copied out in the year 588, together with passages quoted in Byzantine catenae — chains of patristic comment assembled by later editors.

What is missing

26 of the 156 are not here: 1, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 24, 26, 28, 30, 31, 32, 97, 98, 113, 114, 115, 116, 154, 155, 156. Each was checked by searching the whole volume for a heading naming it, and none has one. The rail below shows the 130 that survive, with the gaps left as gaps. Nothing has been supplied in their place.

Reading it beside the gospel

Each piece carries the verses it is on and a door straight into that chapter of St Luke; each chapter of the gospel offers the pieces that expound it. A piece covers from its own text to the next one’s, so a chapter nobody began a sermon on is still reached by the sermon it falls inside.

The sermons

  1. 2 Upon Luke 2:8
  2. 3 Upon Luke 2:21
  3. 4 Upon Luke 2:25
  4. 5 Upon Luke 2:40
  5. 6 Upon Luke 3:1
  6. 7 Upon Luke 3:7
  7. 10 Upon St Luke
  8. 11 Upon Luke 3:21
  9. 12 Upon Luke 4:1
  10. 21 Upon St Luke
  11. 22 Upon Luke 6:2
  12. 23 Upon Luke 6:6
  13. 25 Upon Luke 6:17
  14. 27 Upon Luke 6:20
  15. 29 Upon Luke 6:24
  16. 33 Upon Luke 6:41
  17. 34 Upon Luke 6:46
  18. 35 Upon Luke 7:1
  19. 36 Upon Luke 7:11
  20. 37 Upon Luke 7:17
  21. 38 Upon Luke 7:24
  22. 39 Upon Luke 7:31
  23. 40 Upon Luke 7:36
  24. 41 Upon Luke 8:4
  25. 42 Upon Luke 8:19
  26. 43 Upon Luke 8:22
  27. 44 Upon Luke 8:26
  28. 45 Upon Luke 8:40
  29. 46 Upon Luke 8:49
  30. 47 Upon Luke 9:1
  31. 48 Upon Luke 9:12
  32. 49 Upon Luke 9:18
  33. 50 Upon Luke 9:23
  34. 51 Upon Luke 9:27
  35. 52 Upon Luke 9:37
  36. 53 Upon Luke 9:43
  37. 54 Upon Luke 9:46
  38. 55 Upon Luke 9:49
  39. 56 Upon Luke 9:51
  40. 57 Upon Luke 9:57
  41. 58 Upon Luke 9:59
  42. 59 Upon Luke 9:61
  43. 60 Upon Luke 10:1
  44. 61 Upon Luke 10:3
  45. 62 Upon Luke 10:4
  46. 63 Upon Luke 10:16
  47. 64 Upon Luke 10:17
  48. 65 Upon Luke 10:21
  49. 66 Upon Luke 10:22
  50. 67 Upon Luke 10:23
  51. 68 Upon Luke 10:25
  52. 69 Upon Luke 10:38
  53. 70 Upon Luke 11:1
  54. 71 Upon Luke 11:2
  55. 72 Upon Luke 11:2
  56. 73 Upon Luke 11:2
  57. 74 Upon Luke 11:2
  58. 75 Upon Luke 11:3
  59. 76 Upon Luke 11:4
  60. 77 Upon Luke 11:4
  61. 78 Upon Luke 11:5
  62. 79 Upon Luke 11:11
  63. 80 Upon Luke 11:14
  64. 81 Upon Luke 11:19
  65. 82 Upon Luke 11:29
  66. 83 Upon Luke 11:37
  67. 84 Upon Luke 11:42
  68. 85 Upon Luke 11:45
  69. 86 Upon Luke 11:52
  70. 87 Upon Luke 12:4
  71. 88 Upon Luke 12:8
  72. 89 Upon Luke 12:13
  73. 90 Upon Luke 12:22
  74. 91 Upon Luke 12:32
  75. 92 Upon Luke 12:35
  76. 93 Upon Luke 12:41
  77. 94 Upon Luke 12:49
  78. 95 Upon Luke 12:54
  79. 96 Upon Luke 13:6
  80. 99 Upon Luke 13:22
  81. 100 Upon Luke 13:31
  82. 101 Upon Luke 14:1
  83. 102 Upon Luke 14:7
  84. 103 Upon Luke 14:12
  85. 104 Upon St Luke
  86. 105 Upon Luke 14:25
  87. 106 Upon Luke 15:1
  88. 107 Upon Luke 15:11
  89. 108 Upon Luke 16:1
  90. 109 Upon Luke 16:10
  91. 110 Upon Luke 16:14
  92. 111 Upon Luke 16:19
  93. 112 Upon St Luke
  94. 117 Upon Luke 17:20
  95. 118 Upon Luke 17:31
  96. 119 Upon Luke 18:1
  97. 120 Upon Luke 18:9
  98. 121 Upon Luke 18:15
  99. 122 Upon Luke 18:18
  100. 123 Upon St Luke
  101. 124 Upon Luke 18:28
  102. 125 Upon Luke 18:31
  103. 126 Upon Luke 18:35
  104. 127 Upon Luke 19:1
  105. 128 Upon Luke 19:11
  106. 129 Upon St Luke
  107. 130 Upon Luke 19:28
  108. 131 Upon Luke 19:41
  109. 132 Upon Luke 19:45
  110. 133 Upon St Luke
  111. 134 Upon Luke 20:9
  112. 135 Upon Luke 20:19
  113. 136 Upon Luke 20:27
  114. 137 Upon Luke 20:41
  115. 138 Upon Luke 21:1
  116. 139 Upon Luke 21:5
  117. 140 Upon Luke 21:37
  118. 141 Upon Luke 22:7
  119. 142 Upon Luke 22:17
  120. 143 Upon Luke 22:24
  121. 144 Upon Luke 22:31
  122. 145 Upon Luke 22:35
  123. 146 Upon Luke 22:39
  124. 147 Upon St Luke
  125. 148 Upon Luke 22:47
  126. 149 Upon Luke 22:54
  127. 150 Upon Luke 22:63
  128. 151 Upon Luke 23:1
  129. 152 Upon Luke 23:24
  130. 153 Upon Luke 23:32
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Text: Cyril of Alexandria, Commentary on St Luke — R. Payne Smith’s translation from the Syriac, Oxford University Press, 1859, public domain, from the transcription at tertullian.org, which places it in the public domain. 130 of the 156 survive here, and the missing numbers are not an omission on this site: each was checked by searching the whole volume for a heading naming it.