John Chrysostom delivered eight sermons against the Jews. All are of about the same length, except for sermon two, which is about a third of the length of the others. The 18th century editor Montfaucon signalled a lacuna (reprinted by Migne), i.e. that part of the sermon was lost. German scholar Wendy Pradels conducted a search of collections of manuscripts, and finally found a complete copy on the island of Lesbos. The new material was printed, with a German translation, ten years ago. But no English translation exists.
I have today received a first draft of a translation of this material, which I commissioned a while back. It looks very good. Once it is finished, I will place it in the public domain. I will also try to make sure it is added to the end of whatever copies of the English are online. Let’s hope website owners — some of rather different politics to myself — are willing to cooperate in reuniting the pieces of this work of Chrysostom.
You don’t get enough appreciation for what you’re doing, Roger—I don’t know that any amount would be enough. So here’s one more instance.
You’re very kind – thank you.