Les sources des sermons Sur les femmes myrophores de l’homéliaire patriarcal de Constantinople

Abstract

The sermon on the women bearing myrrh, catalogued as pseudochrysostomian (CPG 4940) and belonging to the patriarchal homilary of Constantinople, has two recensions: a long one in homilary I and a shorter one in homilary II. The identification of patristic sources – John Chrysostom, often through Theophylact of Ohrid, but also Eusebius, Athanasius, Basil, Gregory the Theologian, Cyril of Alexandria, Gregory of Antioch, Mark the Monk and the catenae on the Gospels – allows for a detailed comparison of the two recensions, which undoubtedly go back to a common basis: each, in fact, has its own originality. The investigation is followed by a French translation of the second recension