This volume closes the American edition of the Works of St. Chrysostom, and at the same time the First Series of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Library of the Christian Fathers.
The best works of St. Augustin and St. Chrysostom are thus brought within the reach of the English reader in a more complete form and at a lower price than ever before.
The Epistle to the Hebrews was the last volume of the Oxford “Library of the Fathers,” published under the direction and with a Preface of the late Dr. Pusey, the chief originator of that valuable Library. His Preface is dated, Oxford, May, 1877. He died Sept. 16, 1882.
The American editor of the Homilies on the Hebrews has thoroughly revised the Oxford translation and enlarged it with a valuable introduction on the authorship of the Epistle (about which St. Chrysostom was mistaken), and a considerable number of explanatory footnotes. Unfortunately he died shortly before his ms. was sent to the printer, but his son read the proofs.
The Rev. Dr. Frederic Gardiner (born Sept. 11, 1822, died July 17, 1889) was for many years Professor in the Berkeley Episcopal Divinity School at Middletown, Conn., and President of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis. He edited a Greek Harmony of the Four Gospels, and several exegetical works, and was a contributor to Lange’s Commentary, Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers, and various periodicals. The revision of the Homilies on the Epistle to the Hebrews was his last work.
The Homilies on the Fourth Gospel appears in the Oxford “Library of the Fathers,” with a few additional notes. The Rev. Charles Marriott (1811–1858) edited them, and wrote the preface to the first volume. For fourteen years, from 1841 to 1855, he was associated with Dr. Pusey as working editor, and superintended the publication of at least twenty-four volumes (twelve of St. Chrysostom, eight of St. Augustin, four of St. Gregory I.), i.e. more than one-half of that Library. It was with both a labor of love and sacrifice, without fee or reward except the approval of the conscience and of good men. To their unselfish labors the American edition owes a great debt of gratitude. Mr. Marriott did most of the literary drudgery, as translator, corrector, and proof-reader, with untiring fidelity and painstaking zeal till he was struck down by paralysis in 1855, “to wait in stillness for his Lord’s last call.” Dean Burgon states these facts in a interesting account of his intimate friend (in Lives of Twelve Good Men, London and New York, 1888, vol. I. 296–376). He calls Marriott “a character unique, beautiful, and saint-like,” and adds that he “lived quite above the world, and, like Enoch, walked habitually with God.”
I feel very thankful that this Patristic Library has so far been finished, and I am happy to announce that the “Christian Literature Company” is sufficiently encouraged to publish the second series, which will contain the Greek Fathers from Eusebius to John of Damascus, and the Latin Fathers from Hilary to Gregory the Great. I secured the coöperation of eminent patristic scholars of England and America several years ago for the completion of this enterprise.
PHILIP SCHAFF
Union Theological Seminary,
New York, Dec. 24, 1889.
Comparative Table of the Works of St. Chrysostom in the American and Migne’s Editions
Comparative Table
of the
Works of St. Chrysostom in the American and in Migne’s Editions.
Anglo-american edition of St. Chrysostom. Græco-latin edition. In Migne’s Patrologia Græca, Tom. XLVII.–LXIV. Volume IX. Page Opera S. Chrysostomi, reprinted from Montfaucon’s Benedictine edition, 1862, Tom. I.–XIII. Prolegomena by the General Editor..................... 3–23 Six Books on the Priesthood.............................. 25–83 De Sacerdotio Libri VI......................... Tom. I. 623-693 Two Letters to Theodore after his Fall........... 85–116 Parænesis ad Theodorum Lapsum Libri II.................. ............................................................... Tom. I. 277–319 Letter to a young Widow............................... 117–128 Ad Viduam juniorem.......................... Tom. I. 599–623 Two Homilies. (1) On St. Ignatius. (2) On St. Babylas.............................................................. 129–143 Hom. in Sanctum Martyrem Ignatium Deiferum,........ ............................................................. Tom. II. 587 sqq. Homily concerning “Lowliness of Mind” (Phil. i. 18)............................................................................ 145–155 Hom. in Sanctum Martyrem Babylam,......................... ............................................................. Tom. II. 527 sqq. Hom. in Phil. i. 18.............................. Tom. III. 311–320 Two Instructions to Candidates for Baptism............. ............................................................................ 157–171 Catecheses ad Illuminandos............ Tom. II. 223–243 Three Homilies. (1) That demons do not govern the world. (2 and 3) Concerning the power of the Tempter............................................................. 173–197 (1) Adversus eos, qui dicunt Dæmones gubernare res humanas, etc.............................. Tom. III. 241 sqq. (2 and 3) Ad eos, qui objiciunt, cur e medio sublatus non est Deus, etc........................................................................................................................................................ ........................................... Tom. III. 257 sqq.; 263 sqq. Three Homilies. (1) Against the Marcionists and the Manichæans on the passage “Father, if it be possible,” etc. (2) On the Paralytic let down through the roof. (3) To those who had not attended the Assembly; on the passage, “If thine enemy hunger, feed him,”.......................................................... 199–232 .............................. Tom. III. 31 sqq.; 47 sqq.; 471 sqq. Homily against publishing the errors of the brethren............................................................................ 233–242 ...................................................................... III. 353 sqq. Two Homilies on Eutropius............................ 245–265 ...................................................................... III. 391 sqq. Treatise to prove that no one can harm the man who does not injure himself.................................... 267–284 ...................................................................... III. 263 sqq. Four Letters to Olympias and one to presbyters at Antioch............................................................. 285–304 Epistolæ...................................................... III. 545 sqq. Correspondence of Innocent, bishop of Rome, with St. Chrysostom and the church at Constantinople... ............................................................................ 305–314 Epistolæ...................................................... III. 529 sqq. Twenty-one Homilies on the Statues........... 315–514 Homiliæ XXI de Statues ad Populum Antiochenum habitæ............................................................. II. 15–223 Vol. X. Introductory Essay on St. Chrysostom as an Exegete............................................................................. xvii–xxii St. Chrysostom’s Homilies on the Gospel of St. Matthew................................................................ 1–551 Homiliæ XC in Matthæum............................ Tom. VII. Vol. XI. Homilies on the Acts........................................... 1–328 Homiliæ LV in Acta Apostolorum................ Tom. IX. Homilies on Romans........................................ 335–574 Homiliæ XXXII in Epistolam ad Romanos.................. ........................................................................... Tom. IX. Vol. XII. Prefaces and Contents to 1 and 2 Corinthians........... ................................................................................ iii–xiv Homilies on First Epistle to the Corinthians............... ................................................................................ 1–269 Homiliæ XLIV in Epistolam primam ad Corinthios..... ............................................................................ Tom. X. Homilies on Second Epistle to Corinthians................ ............................................................................ 271–438 Homiliæ XXX in Epistolam secundam ad................... Corinthios.......................................................... Tom. X. Vol. XIII. St. Chrysostom as a Homilist.............................. v–vii Commentarius in Ep. ad Galatas................................... ............................................................ Tom. X., 611–682 Commentary on Galatians, and Homilies on Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Thessalonians, First and Second Timothy, Titus, and Philemon....... ................................................................................ 1–592 Hom. XXIV in Ep. ad Ephesios; X in Ep. ad Philippenses; XII in Ep. ad Colossenses; XVI in Ep. I. et II. ad Thessaloniœnses; XXVIII in Ep. I. et II. ad Timotheum; VI in Ep. ad Titum; III in Ep. ad Philemonem...................................................... Tom. XI. Vol. XIV. Homilies on the Gospel of St. John................... 1–334 Homiliæ LXXXVIII in Ioannem................... Tom. VIII. Homilies on the Epistle to the Hebrews....... 335–522 Homiliæ XXXIV in Epistolam ad Hebræos,................ ............................................................. Tom. XII., 9–237