Understanding “On the Incarnation” – Chapter 1
Over the next two months I intend to post a chapter each day, as far as is possible, from the important work by St Athanasius the Apostolic, the 20th Pope…
Translation – The History of the Egyptian Solitaries
Summary This is a translation from French of a Greek manuscript containing the History of the Egyptian Solitaries. This post contains the French translator’s introduction, and the first of the…
Translation – Homily 67 of St Severus of Antioch
Text Concerning Mary, Holy Mother of God and Ever Virgin. When I want to focus my attention on the Virgin Mother of God and touch simply on the thoughts that…
Translation – A Presanctified Liturgy of St Severus of Antioch
Summary This translation into English is of the introductory article and the text of the Presanctified Anaphora of St Severus of Antioch. It was publsihed in French in 1919, and…
Translation – A Discourse by St Severus on the Virgin Mary
Notes This is a part of a discourse by St Severus of Antioch about the Virgin Mary. He especially describes the Virgin Mary as Prophet, Apostle and Martyr. This text…
Translation – The Apocalypse of Samuel, Abbot of Deir-el-Qalamoun
Summary The translator of this text from a 17th century Arabic manuscript notes that it is in two parts, a homily and an apocalypse. He adds… The sermon aims to…
Translation – Severus of Antioch in Coptic Literature
Summary This text is a translation I have produced of an article by the scholar E. Porcher from the French, published in the Revue de L’Orient Chretien in 1907. I…
Translation – The Prayer of Saint Langinos
Summary This is an interesting text, preserved in an Ethiopic manuscript. It describes something of the affairs in Egypt at time of the council of Chalcedon when violence was threatened…
Translation – The Plerophories – 1-9
Text The Plerophories That is, the testimonies and revelations that God made to the Saints, concerning the heresy of the two natures and the prevarication that took place in Chalcedon;…
Translation – The Plerophories – Introduction
Summary F. Nau, the great French schola, translated the Plerophories into French, which I am translating into English in this series of posts. This is his own introduction. The word…