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Four Homilies

Gregory Thaumaturgus

Part 5 · Introduction

About this work

Author: Gregory Thaumaturgus

Elucidations.

I can do no better than follow Dupin as

‹ On the Holy Theophany, or on Christ’s Baptism.

to

the

authorship

of

these

Homilies

.

He

thinks

the

style

of

Proclus

(

of

Constantinople

)

may

be

detected

in

them

,

though

the

fourth

is

beyond

him

for

eloquence

,

and

has

even

been

thought

worthy

of

St

.

Chrysostom

.

It

was

produced

after

Nicæa

,

and

probably

after

Ephesus

,

its

somewhat

exaggerated

praises

of

the

θεοτόκος

being

unusual

at

an

earlier

period

.

The

titles

of

these

Homilies

are

the

work

of

much

later

editors

;

and

interpolations

probably

occur

frequently

,

by

the

same

hands

.