This is a draft translation of a short work by Abū al-Faḍā’il Ibn al-‘Assāl, one of three brothers and scholars of the Coptic Orthodox Church of the 12th century. This family had produced as many as six generations of scholars and this short theological work on the Holy Trinity and the Incarnation expresses the knowledge […]
1. Once more it is the feast of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ, and once again it is the restoration of our race. He was born for the first time according to the flesh, and he shared in my manner of birth, that which is without seed and without sin, and the one who […]
On the dedication of the Holy Cross and on the anniversary of the earthquake that took place. If, the elders celebrated the feast of the first dedication for the temple of Jerusalem, that which the wise Solomon built and which the Holy Spirit, speaking through the prophet David, had prefigured, according to the account which […]
On the munificence of the gift of the pious emperor (Anastasius), who had remitted some remaining contributions and taxes from the Public Treasury. 1 Vast and difficult to scrutinize is the depth of the Economy, which the Word of God and the Saviour Jesus Christ manifested with regard to our race by his coming in […]
Of St Severus the Archbishop of Antioch and Patriarch: About himself, from the beginning, how he was promoted and came to the Pontificate and the Apostolic See of the Church of the Antiochians. And that we must confess Christ of two natures, one Lord, one Son, and not two natures after the ineffable union. And […]
This is a list of all the Cathedral Homilies of St Severus, from the Patrologia Orientalis translation of the edition by James of Edessa. It includes a translation of the description of each homily from the edition by James of Edessa. (I will add the P.O. Volume details to each homily in due course). HOMILY […]
Excerpt from St Severus against Julian As for the word of philosophical significance which is pronounced by Job the valiant in these terms: “Who in fact would be pure from defilement? Nobody, not even if he lived only one day on the earth!” It is necessary to know that man is said to have lived […]
Text XI. – At the same time, there was yet another demonstration in Jerusalem similar to the previous one, which announced in advance the injustice which was going to be done to God. The great cross, an object of veneration, which for many years had shone and sparkled in the Church of the Ascension, was […]
Text X. The facts which are about to be reported will perhaps seem incredible and stupendous to some, but, if I am telling them, it is because pure, old and trustworthy men, as well as holy monks have told them to me and to those who were then hidden in the monastery of the Abba […]
A Catechesis which was given, according to the custom, on the Wednesday of the Great Week of Pascha, that is to say of the Passion, addressed to those who were to be judged worthy of the Holy Baptism. The term catechesis produces great fear in me, and with good reason. In fact, I consider in […]