Primary source · Greek

Palladius, Dialogue on the Life of John Chrysostom

Palladius of Helenopolis · c. AD 408

What this text is

The defense brief for the deposed archbishop, by the same Palladius who wrote the Lausiac History: the Oak synod's charges answered point by point, the night of the burning church, the forced marches to Cucusus and Comana. Hostile to Theophilus and partisan throughout — cited as the indispensable insider account, bias declared.

Public-domain translations

Moore translation (1921, public domain)

The blessed John, then, was led away... and the church was in tears, and the whole city downcast; and he, turning to the bishops who wept with him, said: Pray, brethren; and spare me your tears, for these things also work together for good. (ch. 10, condensed)

Manuscript witnesses

Byzantine minuscule tradition

10th–14th c.

The Dialogue survives in medieval Greek copies alongside the Chrysostom corpus it defends.

EARLIEST WITNESSES

Editio princeps (Emery Bigot, Paris)

1680

First printed Greek text, with the Latin that carried the Dialogue into modern citation.

PRINTED PROXY

Provenance

Written in exile in the West, in the form of a conversation at Rome between a bishop of the East and the deacon Theodore

Editions & scholarship

Critical editions and standard translations behind the text above.

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