A commencement of a comprehensive reissue of Cyril’s works was made by the late P. E. Pusey, and the following portions had appeared when the
* The printed Oecumenius contained six quotations by name from Cyril on Romans, three on 1 Corinthians, one on 2 Co- rinthians, two on Galatians; but these might conceivably have been all culled out of his dogmatic writings.
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work was prematurely cut short by his death in 1880: the commentary on the Minor Prophets (2 vols., Oxford, 1868), the commentary on St. John (3 vols., 1872), and two volumes of dogmatic treatises (1875, 1877). Happily for our present ed ite the third volume of the commentary on t. John was extended to include the remains of the commentaries on St. Paul: Romans (pp. 173- 248), 1 Corinthians (pp. 249-319), 2 Corinthians (pp. 320-361, as well as Hebrews, pp. 362-440). This edition entirely supersedes those of Cramer (whose two MSS on the Romans were re-collated) and Mai; for it combines their material with ad- ditional fragments on the two Corinthian epistles from an early Catena in the monastery of Panto- erator on Mount Athos (see below, p. 522°),* and with a few new fragments on Ro | (Pusey, pp. 173-175) drawn from a Vienna Catena (Karo and Lietzmann’s No. vii. : see above, p. 489). Several important changes are also made in this edition in the matter of passages incorrectly ascribed to St. Cyril.
From the Athos Catena the division of Cyril’s commentaries on the two Corinthian epistles into réuor and Adyo can to some extent be reconstructed, though it must of course be remembered that these ‘tomes’ and ‘chapters’ do not necessarily begin at the verses where they happen to be quoted. The following indications are supplied: 1 Co 68 éx tod y' rouou, 771 éx rod 5’ [MS a for A] réuov, 101 romos 5’ Néyos y’, 113 réuos 5’ Nébyos 5’, 12° rduos e’ Néyos a’, 142 rduos €’ Adyos B’, 14! rédwos e’ NOyos 77’ [MS inverts the two numbers], 15! réuos e [MS omits e’] Adyos 6’, 15° ek rod ¢ réuov. And for 2 Corinthians: 11 réuos a’ Néyos a’, 1'8 rduos a’ Adyos B’, 34 rouos B’ Nébyos a’, 47 rouos y’ Néyos a’, 41 rouos ry’ Néyos B', 5° réuos 8’ Adyos a’. The Syriac fragments catalogued in the next paragraph testify, wherever they give details, to a similar arrange- ment: on 1 Co 15” the ‘ fifth tome’ is quoted, and on 15” the ‘seventh tome’; on 2 Co 5° the ‘ third tome,’ and on 13* the ‘fourth tome.’
The Greek evidence of which an account has go far been given would by itself create a strong presumption that Cyril had not commented on any but the longer epistles of St. Paul ; for the dili- gence of Cramer, Mai, and Pusey, between them, has found nothing on the shorter epistles save two or three citations on Galatians and Colossians. But isolated citations from Fathers of great theo- logical repute are presumably taken, as was shown on p. 498 above, from their dogmatic writings. Thus the Vienna Catena just referred to cites Cyril for the Epistle to the Romans, not only é« rod tpovs,— ‘from the text of the commentary,’ or perhaps we should best represent the words by translating them ‘ad loc.,’—but also from the xara Aovkdy, from the Oncavpds, from the pds Epulay, from the Ilept ris év Iveduare Narpelas, Book vi., and from the care ’Lovwavod. The ula xpos in Cramer’s Catena on Colossians (pp. 305, 340: see above, p. 507°) is from the Oncavpés,t and the two cited from a MS of Oecumenius on the same epistle (op. cit. p. 411) are from the Ilept rfs év Ivetuare Narpelas. And this conclusion is reinforced by the testimony of the Syriac manuscripts, where there is no trace of any commentary (apart from Hebrews) save those on the Roman and Corinthian epistles, though Cyril
* Unfortunately, a fresh element of confusion is introduced by
the fact that the quotations from Vat. 762 and the Athos MS, though they tally in sense, rarely tally in words: the former appears to contain more Scripture citations, the latter more technical theology. d ;
+ Thus about a dozen of the passages quoted in the Munich Catena on Romans are identified as belonging to other writings of St. Cyril (the ad Hermiam and the Thesawrus), and three or four to other writers altogether — Chrysostom, Theodoret, Photius.
t The citation on p. 320 of Cramer headed Kupidrov belongs really to the Homilies of Chrysostom, ad loc.
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was of course an author much used in the Mono- physite circles from which this Syriac literature comes to us. Even the commentary on Romans was but sparsely known: from the two Corinthian epistles the quotations are more numerous, as the following list of British Museum MSS will show :—
Severus of Antioch against Julian: MS dexe.
(Add. 12158), A.D. 588, quotes Cyril on 1 Cor., foll. lla, 266; on 2 Cor., fol. 1190.
Monophysite treatise: MS decxeviii. (Add. 14535),
sec. ix. ineunt.: on 1 Cor., fol. 3a.
Catene patrum (the last of the six exegetical,
the rest doctrinal)—
MS decelvi. (Add. 14529), sec. vii.—viii. : on (12) Cor., fol. 20a.
MS decelvii. (Add. 12155), sec. viii. : on 1 Cor., fol. 125a; on ‘the epistles to the Corinthians,’ foll. 63a, 680.