Homilies on the Gospel of St. John and the Epistle to the Hebrews

NPNF (V1-14)St. ChrysostomThe text of Savile has been followed, except where the Benedictine edition has suppliedimprovements. The Benedictine sections are numbered throughout: where the division seemed tobe inconvenient, the number is given in the margin. In the earlier <strong>Homilies</strong> a second series ofnumbers is employed to mark the sections in the translation; this was discontinued as unnecessary,and the Benedictine only retained. In some of the references to the Psalms, where the Septuagintdiffers much from the Hebrew, the numbers given are those of the Greek. Care will be taken in theIndex of Texts to give always the reference to the Psalm and Verse according to the Hebrewreckoning followed in our own Version.The editors are indebted for the present translation to the Rev. G. T. Stupart , M.A., late Fellowof Exeter College. It has been kindly carried through the Press by the Rev . J. G. Hickley , B.D.,Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. The translation of the remaining <strong>Homilies</strong> is completed, andwill shortly be in the Press. 2Oriel College,Feast of St. Andrew, 1848.C. M[arriott].1HOMILIES OF ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM,ARCHBISHOP OF CONSTANTINOPLE,ON THEGOSPEL ACCORDING TOST. JOHN.————————————before the Lord touching many sins.” (Eusebius, Hist. Eccl . III. 39.) The section is omitted in the oldest uncial and other Greekmss . ( , B, etc.); it was unknown to Chrysostom and other Greek and early Latin fathers; it interrupts the context; it departsfrom the style of John, and presents an unusual number of various readings. We find it first in Latin Gospel mss . of the fourthcentury, but in different places, sometimes at the end of the Gospel of John as an appendix, sometimes at the end of Luke xxi.It was also in the Gospel according to the Hebrews. The R.V. properly retains it, but in brackets and with a marginal note. Thestory, though no part of the Gospel of John, is eminently Christlike. For details see Tischendorf (ed. viii.), Tregelles, Westcottand Hort, and the critical commentaries.—P.S.]2[The second volume of the Oxford edition, containing <strong>Homilies</strong> 42–88 (John vi.–xxi.), was published in 1852 without aPreface.—P.S.]8