Primary source · Greek original; surviving mainly in ancient Latin (with Armenian remains)
Eusebius of Emesa, Homilies
Eusebius of Emesa · c. AD 340–359
What this text is
Nearly thirty homilies of the Antiochene school's polished court-preacher, lost in Greek and recovered from an old Latin collection (published only in 1953) plus Armenian remains of his exegesis. TANGLE LOGGED: for centuries a mass of Gallic sermons circulated under 'Eusebius' — the pseudo-'Eusebius Gallicanus' — and the true Emesene corpus had to be sifted out of it.
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Public-domain translations
Working translation (from the old Latin, ed. Buytaert)
[On the Son: begotten, not as bodies beget, but as light gives light — the preacher walks the Homoian line with Antiochene sobriety.]
Manuscript witnesses
Old Latin homily collection
ancient version; carried in early medieval homiliariesThe Latin translation, older than any surviving Greek line, recovered and edited by Buytaert in 1953.
Armenian version of the exegetical works
5th-c. version; medieval copiesCommentary remains (notably on the Octateuch) preserved by the Armenian schools.
Buytaert, Discours conservés en latin
1953–1957Editio princeps of the Latin corpus — the recovery itself is modern.
Provenance
Emesa and Antioch; the Greek perished — the preaching survived in translation
Editions & scholarship
Critical editions and standard translations behind the text above.
- Eusèbe d'Émèse: Discours conservés en latinÉ. M. Buytaert, 1953–1957The critical edition.
- A Syrian in Greek DressR. B. ter Haar Romeny, 1997Critical study of his exegesis between Greek, Syriac, and Armenian — the anti-bias control on school labels.
- Eusebius of Emesa: Church and Theology in the Mid-Fourth CenturyRobert E. Winn, 2011Modern monograph.