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ALostCopticFragmentfromaSermononPenitencebySeverianofGabala(CPG4186)
PostedonMay2,2012
Inarecentpost,IidentifiedaseriesofpapyrusfragmentsfromtheCopticversionoftheAsceticonofAbbaIsaiah.
ThefragmentsformerlybelongedtothelibraryoftheUniversityofLouvain,buttheydisappearedforeverinafire
whichdestroyedthelibraryduringthebombingsinWW2.Luckily,alltheLouvainfragmentswerepublishedby
LouisThophileLefortshortlybeforetheirphysicaldisappearance.TheBelgianCoptologistinthiswaygrantedus
accesstodocumentswhichtodayarelost.
HereIshouldliketointroduceanotherofthepapyrusfragmentsinLouvain,whichhaveremainedunidentified
untilnow.
Under no. 48, Lefort published an unidentified papyrus fragment which he tentatively dated to the 6th or 7th
century.[1]Infact,thetextcanbeidentifiedasaportionfromahomilyonpenitencebySeverianofGabala(CPG
4186). Like all the other sermons of Severian, the Greek manuscript tradition transmitted this text under the
name of John Chrysostom. It is thus no wonder that the homily can be found in different modern editions of
GoldenMouthsworks.Forexample,inMontfauconsedition,whichwastakenoverbyMigneinhisPatrologia
Graeca,thetextwasprintedastheseventhhomilyonpenitencebyJohnChrysostom(cf.PG49,coll.323336).
However, the attribution of this sermon to Severian was defended on good grounds by Charles Martin.[2] He
pointedoutthatsomePatristiccatenaearequotingthetextunderthenameofitsrealauthor:SeverianofGabala.
Besides,itshouldberemarkedthatthestyleofthedocumentdoesnotconformtothatofJohnChrysostom,but
rathercontainsmanyfeaturespropertoSeverian.
TheCoptictextpublishedbyLefortcorrespondsliterallytoMignePG49,col.325,lines1525.However,asthe
pagination of the Louvain fragment is lost and Lefort was not able to identify its content, he mixed up the
recto/versofaces.
HereisLefortseditionoftheCopticandtheparalleltextextractedfromMignesPatrologiaGraecavol.49,col.
325:
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[1]L.Th.Lefort,LesmanuscritscoptesdelUniversitdeLouvain1:Texteslittraires(Louvain:Bibliothquede
lUniversit,1940)134135.
[2] Ch. Martin, Une homlie De Poenitentia de Svrien de Gabala, Revue dhistoire ecclsiastique 26 (1930)
331343.
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rpearsesays:
May2,2012at19:29
Excellent!Andwellspotted.WhatapitythatSeveriansworksdonotexistinEnglish!
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AlinSuciusays:
May3,2012at11:10
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Roger,
SomeofthemexistinEnglish,buttheyweretranslatedunderJohnChrysostomsname.Forexample,thehomily
whichIdiscusshereisavailableinG.G.Christo,St.JohnChrysostom.OnRepentanceandAlmsgiving(Fathersof
theChurch,96Washington,D.C.:TheCatholicUniversityofAmericaPress,1998)86ff.AlthoughFatherChristo
takesitasagenuineChrysostomicpiece,IwouldsayitisbySeverian.
Checkthisout:http://books.google.de/books?id=xlvGwf
1h3wC&printsec=frontcover&dq=St.+John+Chrysostom.+On+Repentance+and+Almsgiving&hl=de&sa=X&ei=fFmiT4u1GYHhtQbd
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