Commentary on the Gospel of Luke

Cyril of Alexandria (376–444)

Among the manuscripts brought back to the British Library from the Nitrian desert in Egypt by Archdeacon Tattam in 1842, were two volumes containing the Commentary on Luke of Cyril of Alexandria. This text consisted of a compilation of 156 sermons, although some had suffered damage. The text had not survived in Greek, although long quotations existed in Byzantine catena-commentaries -- chains of quotations of the Fathers, which had been published by Angelo Mai and by Cramer.

Robert Payne-Smith produced an edition of the Syriac text: Cyrilli Alexandriae Archiepiscopi Commentarii in Lucae Evangelium; quae supersunt Syriace e Manuscriptis apud Museum Britannicum . Ed. R. Payne Smith, pp. 447, 4to. Oxonii: e typographeo academico. 1858. In 1859 he produced an English translation, supplemented from the catenas, and this is the text that appears here.

The gospel text at the head of each sermon forms part of the Syriac text.

See also

• More works by Cyril of Alexandria

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