Homilies of Ephrem Graecus

Reference Works

CPG 3909, 3939, 3944-3946, 3948, 3950, 3952, 4012, 4025, 4028, 4082

BHO 269-273

Homilies

Ordered According to CPG

All of the homilies attributed to Ephrem the Syrian in Greek may have some relationship to Syriac writings by Ephrem. This must be analyzed on a case-by-case basis. I have noted here all homilies attributed to Ephrem in Greek that have been connected to Syriac homilies, whether they are actually by Ephrem or pseudonymous. The entries in CPG provide excellent information about the connections between the Greek and Syriac versions and should be consulted for comparative purposes.

Abbreviations for Ephraem Graecus:

Assemani = Assemani, Joseph Simonius. Sancti patris nostri Ephraem Syri Opera omnia quae exstant, Graece, Syria ac Latine. 6 vols. Rome, 1732-1746. [All 6 volumes can be downloaded here]

Greek and Latin 1 [Hathi Trust]

Greek and Latin 2

Greek and Latin 3

Syriac and Latin 1 [Hathi Trust]

Syriac and Latin 2

Syriac and Latin 3

Lamy = Lamy, Thomas Joseph. Sancti Ephraem Syri hymni et sermones quos e codicibus Londinensibus. 4 vols.  Mechliniae: Dessain, 1882-1902. [Vol. 1Vol. 2Vol. 3Vol. 4]

Ascetical Homily

CPG 3909

Greek Text: Assemani, Greek and Latin 1:40-70

Syriac Text: Assemani, Syriac 3:682; Lamy, Syriac 2:340, 342, 344, 352, 706; Syriac 3:650, 668, 670; Syriac 4:338

On the Transfiguration of Our Lord and God, the Savior Jesus Christ

CPG 3939

Assemani, Greek and Latin 2:41-49

Hiersemann, Karl W. Katalog 487: Manuscripte vom Mittelalter bis zum XVI. Jahrhundert. Leipzig, 1921. Pages 64-66 on the manuscript in which the Syriac version of this homily originally appeared.

Hiersemann, Karl W. Katalog 500: Orientalische Manuskripte: Arabische, syrische, griechische, armenische, persische Handscriften des 7.-18. Jahrhunderts. Leipzig, 1922. Pages 3-6 on the same.

On the Second Coming of Our Lord Jesus Christ

CPG 3944

Greek Text: Assemani, Greek and Latin 2:192-209

Syriac Text: Lamy, Syriac 3:188-212 (?)

On the General Resurrection, on Penitence and Grace, and the Second Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ

CPG 3945

Greek Text: Assemani, Greek and Latin 2:209-222

Syriac Text: Lamy, Syriac 3:188-212 (?)

On the Advent of Our Lord, on the Consummation of the Age, and on the Antichrist

CPG 3946

Christian Palestinian Aramaic: Duensing, Hugo. Nachlese christlich-palästinisch-aramäischer Fragmente. Nachrichten von der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen: Philologisch-Historische Klasse 5. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1955. Pages 126-149. 

Greek Text: Assemani, Greek and Latin 2:222-230

Syriac Text: Lamy, Syriac 3:188-212 (?)

On the Precious and Life-giving Cross, on the Second Coming, and on Grace and Mercy

CPG 3948

Greek Text: Assemani, Greek and Latin 2:247-258

Syriac Text: Lamy, Syriac 1:304; Syriac 2:325ff.; Syriac 3:304 (?)

On the Disease of the Tongue and Crooked Desires

CPG 3950

Greek Text: Assemani, Greek and Latin 2:279-289

Syriac Text: Lamy, Syriac 4:312-356

On the Sinful Woman who Anointed the Lord with Ointment

CPG 3952

Greek Text: Assemani, Greek and Latin 2:297-306

Syriac Text: Beck, Edmund, ed. Des Heiligen Ephraem des Syrers Sermones I-IV. Translated by Edmund Beck. Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium 305-306, 311-312, 320-321, 334-335, Scriptores Syri 130-131, 134-135, 138-139, 148-149. Leuven: Secrétariat du CorpusSCO, 1970. Pages CSCO 311, SS 134:78-87; CSCO 312, SS 135:99-109.

Lamy 1:318-338 (?)

On the Advent of Our Lord, Three Sermons

CPG 4012

Greek Text: Assemani, Greek and Latin 3:134-136, 136-140, 140-143

Syriac Text: Lamy, Syriac 3:188-212

On the Suffering of the Savior

CPG 4025

Greek Text: Assemani, Greek and Latin 3:244-248

Syriac Text: Sauget, Joseph-Mari. "Deux homéliaires Syriaques de la Bibliothèque vaticane." Orientalia Christiana Periodica 27 (1961): 387-424. Page 406, No. 21. 

Sauget, Joseph-Marie. "L'homéliaire du Vatican Syriaque 253: Essai de reconstitution." Le Muséon 81 (1968): 297-349. Page 335. 

Sauget, Joseph-Marie. "Pour une interprétation de la structure de l'homéliaire syriaque: Ms. British Library Add. 12165." Ecclesia Oriens 3 (1986): 121-146. Page 131, No. 69.

On those who Fall Asleep in Christ

CPG 4028

Greek Text: Assemani, Greek and Latin 3:260-273

Syriac Text: Lamy, Syriac 2:326-328, 360

On Jonah the Prophet and on the Repentance of the Ninevites

CPG 4082

Greek Text: Hemmerdinger-Iliadou, Démocratie. "Éphrem le Syrien, sermon sur Jonas (texte grec inédit)." Le Muséon 80 (1967): 52-74.

Mercati, Silvio Giuseppe. S. Ephraem Syri opera. Monumenta Biblica et Ecclesiastica 1. Romae: Pontifical Biblical Institute, 1915. Pages 91-93.

Syriac Text: Assemani, Syriac 2:359-387.

Beck, Edmund, ed. Des Heiligen Ephraem des Syrers Sermones I-IV. Translated by Edmund Beck. Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium 305-306, 311-312, 320-321, 334-335, Scriptores Syri 130-131, 134-135, 138-139, 148-149. Leuven: Secrétariat du CorpusSCO, 1970. Pages CSCO 311, SS 134:1-40; CSCO 312, SS 135:1-53