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.
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Every run of seven words or more that appears both here and in another book on this shelf, merged into the longest passage they have in common. On St Luke shares wording with 6 of the other 37. This is quotation, or a common source, or one translator doing both — not a resemblance inferred from vocabulary.
and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in waterLuke 16 and Sermon 111
beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eyeSermon 33 and Homily 23
and a wine drinker: a friend of publicans and sinners. And wisdom is justifiedMatthew 11 and Sermon 39
but he that doeth the will of God abideth for everSermon 41 and Tractate 124
fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of the image of corruptible man, andSermon 65 and Book 13
camel's hair, and a leathern girdleMark 1 and Sermon 38
Quotation, here, means a named attribution or a commentary working through the text — not a guess from shared vocabulary.
Of the sixty counted across the shelf, the ones this book names most. A name is counted wherever it is written, whoever is speaking. Each one has a page of its own listing every chapter, in every book, that carries it.
26 of 156 are not here. The Greek is lost; the Syriac manuscript of 588 does not contain them. Each absent number was checked against the whole translation.
Translator: R. Payne Smith, 1859. Source: tertullian.org.
The text here is 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.
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.
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