Leontius of Byzantium: Complete works

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by  Daley

LEONTIUS OF
BYZANTIUM
Complete Works
Edited by Brian E. Daley, S]
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION, BY
BRIAN E, DALEY, SJ
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Acknowledgements
I would like to express my thanks, however haltingly and briefly, to some of
the many people who have helped me, in so many different ways, to bring this
work, which began as a doctoral dissertation at Oxford in the 1970s, to a slow
completion. I am grateful, first of all, to the Institut de recherche et d'histoire
des textes in Paris, and particularly to Pere Joseph Paramelle, SJ, of the Section
grecque, for allowing me to use the Institut's photocopies of the manuscripts of
Leonti us for so many years undisturbed. I am grateful, too, to all the librarians
who have given me their assistance, particularly to Msgr Paul Canart and
Dr Salvatore Lilla of the Vatican Library for their readiness to answer my
questions about Vat. Gr. 2195 and the Columnenses back in the 1970s, and to
P. Edmond Lamalle, SJ, librarian of the Jesuit Curia in Rome, and P. Mario
Scaduto, SJ, of the Jesuit Historical Institute, for their help in tracing the
manuscripts of Francisco Torres. I am grateful to Miss Maryse Waegeman, of
the University of Ghent, for so kindly sending me a copy of the excerpt
from Leontius in Athen. 1431; to my long-time friend, Fr Joseph Munitiz,
SJ, of Campion Hall, Oxford, for his encouragement and critical suggestions;
and to my friend Philip Pattenden, fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, for his
constant willingness to look out for manuscripts ofLeontius while pursuing his
own research. I am grateful to the late Fr Joseph Gill, SJ, a colleague at Campion
Hall, Oxford, both for his good example and wise advice, and for spending so
many hours in the cheerless task of proofreading my original Greek text, to save
it from containing many more errors than it does. And I am grateful, too, to the
Merton College Boat Club, and more recently to the Notre Dame Boxing Cub,
for keeping me in good health and good spirits through the years of my research
and revision. For friendship, interest, and support, however, I owe my thanks
above all to the Master and Community of Campion Hall, and to my fellow
Jesuits in Cambridge, Mass. and in South Bend-my "friends in the Lord" -
who have made the years of work on Leontius years of human and religious
growth as well.
I am grateful, too, to Prof. Giles Constable and the staff and fellows of
Dumbarton Oaks, in Washington, DC, for their support when I was correcting
and revising the text; to my colleagues at the Weston Jesuit School of Theology,
in Cambridge, Mass., for believing that this task would come to a happy
conclusion; and especially to my friend there, Fr John O'Malley, SJ, for always
asking perceptive questions about Leontius. More recently, I am grateful to
friends and colleagues in the Department of Theology here at Notre Dame, for
vi Acknowledgements
their confidence and support, and to my students here over the last eighteen
years, for their unfailing expressions of interest in the obscure issues of late
patristic Christology. And I am grateful to a number of our doctoral students
here for their patient and skilled help in putting the text of Leontius and the
rest of this volume into final form: to Richard and Kelly Klee and to Robert
McFadden, for their invaluable help in digitalizing the original typescript, and
to my friend Fr Brian Dunkle, SJ, for lending his wise and critical eye to read the
final draft.
There are four individuals, however, without whom-in the hackneyed but
here fully justified phrase-this edition could never have been made, and
whom I want to thank especially. The first two are my Oxford supervisors from
the 1970s: Nigel Wilson, fellow of Lincoln College and a friend of many years,
who guided me through Leontius's palaeographical and linguistic shoals, and
who always gave unstintingly of his time and his encouragement; and the late
Dr Henry Chadwick, Dean of Christ Church during my years at Oxford, who
helped me past my first misgivings about undertaldng this edition, who wisely
and kindly saw me through the final stages of its production, and who continued
to urge me, through the years that followed, to complete its publication. The
third person who deserves mention is the late Aloys Cardinal Grillmeier, SJ,
my former professor and ever-kindly mentor at the Hochshcule Skt. Georgen
in Frankfurt, who awakened my interest in Leontius, and in all of patristic
Christology, while I was still his student, and whose irrepressible enthusiasm
and generous support continued to spur me on in the years that followed.
And the fourth is the late Abbe Marcel Richard, who first actually suggested to
me (over a pint of ale in an Oxford pub) that I edit Leontius's works, who put
his own transcriptions and notes at my disposal, answered my uninformed
questions about manuscripts and florilegia, and supported me as long as he
lived with his advice, hospitality, and paternal interest. If it is appropriate
for an edition also to bear a dedication, I should like to think of this one, in
Leontius's words, as a A~871s; cp6.pµaKov Kai p,v17µ,ijs Eµ7TUpEuµa-a very
inadequate memorial to these four great scholars and friends.
University of Notre Dame
Feast of St Ignatius Loyola, 2014
Contents
Key to the Apparatus of Leontius's Florilegia viii
Abbreviations xv
Introduction 1
I. The Author and his Times 1
II. The Works 25
A. The Six Treatises 25
B. The Florilegia 54
III. Leontius the Theologian 72
IV The Manuscripts 78
V. The Scholia 94
VI. Earlier Editions 96
VII. This Edition 100
VIII. Select Bibliography 102
Text and Translation 111
1. Contra Nestorianos et Eutychianos (A6yos- a) 125
Appendix I (Scholion) 266
Appendix II (Scholion) 267
2. Epilyseis (= SolutionesArgumentorum Severi) 269
3. Epapori!mata (= Triginta Capita contra Severum) 313
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4. ContraAphthartodocetas (A6yos- (3) 337
5. Deprehensio et Triumphus super Nestorianos (A6yos- y) 411
6. Adversus Fraudes Apollinaristarum 525
7. Fragmenta Incerta 5 72
Appendix III (Excerpta Leontina) 5 78
Appendix IV (A tabular comparison of the extracts in Leontius's
florilegia with the florilegia of other ancient authors) 585
Index to Introduction 607
Index to Works of Leontius 611
Greek Terms 615
Key to the Apparatus of Leontius's Florilegia
1. Editions of the Original Texts, outside of the Patristic Corpora
Amphilochius of Iconium, Works: ed. Cornelius Datema, CCG 3 (Leuven, 1978);
(cf. F. Cavallera, "Les Fragments de saint Amphiloque dans fHodegos et le tome
domatique d' Anastase le Sinane;' RHB 8 ( 1907), 47 4-97).
Antiochus of Ptolemais, Fragments: cf. C. Martin, "Un florilege grec d'homelies
christologiques des IV' et V' siecles sur la Nativite (Paris Gr. 1491);' Le Musean
54(1941),17-57.
Apollinarius of Laodicaea, Works and Fragments: ed. H. Lietzmann, Apollinarius von
Laodicea und seine Schule (Tilbingen, 1904).
Basil of Caesaraea, Letters: ed. Y Courtonne (3 vols.) (Paris, 1957-66).
Cyril of Alexandria, In D. Joannis Evangelium: ed. P. E. Pusey (3 vols.) (Oxford, 1872).
Epistolae Tres Oecumenicae; Libri Quinque Contra Nestorium; XII Capitum
Explanatio; XII Capitum Defensio Utraque; Scholia de Incarnatione Unigeniti: ed. P. E.
Pusey (Oxford, 1875).
De Reeta Fide ad Imperatorem; De Incarnatione Unigeniti Dialogus; De Reeta Fide
ad Principissas; De Reeta Fide ad Augustas; Quad Unus Sit Christus Dialogus;
Apologeticus ad Imperatorem: ed. P. E. Pusey (Oxford, 1877). (For On the Incarnation
and That Christ is One, see also: Cyrille d' Alexandrie, Deux Dialogues Christologiques,
ed. G. M. de Durand; SChr 97; (Paris, 1964).
Cyril of Jerusalem, Catecheses: ed. W. K. Reischl and J. Rupp (2 vols.) (Munich,
1848-70).
Diodore of Tarsus, Fragments: ed. R. Abramowski, "Der theologische Nachlass des
Diodor von Tarsus;' ZNW 42(1949),19-69;
cf. also R. Abramowski "Untersuchungen zu Diodor von Tarsus;' ZNW 30 (1931),
234-62.
Ephrem Syrus et Graecus, Opera omnia quae exstant graece, latine, syriace: ed. J. S.
Assemani (6 vols.) (Rome, 1732-43).
Flavian of Antioch, Fragments: ed. F. Cavallera, in S. Eustathii Episcopi Antiocheni in
Lazarum, Mariam et Martham homilia christologica ... (Paris, 1905), 103-10.
Gelasius of Caesaraea, Fragments: ed. F. Diekamp, Analecta Patristica. Texte und
Abhandlungen zur griechischen Patristik ( = Orientalia Christiana Analecta 117:
Rome, 1938),44-9.
Gregory Nazianzen, Epp. 101-102, 202: ed. Paul Gallay, SChr 208 (Paris, 1998).
Orationes 1-3: ed. Jean Bernardi, SChr 247(Paris,1978).
Key to the Apparatus of Leontius's Florilegia ix
Orationes 27-31: ed. Paul Gallay, SChr 250 (Paris, 1978).
Qrationes 38-41: ed. C. Moreschini, SChr 358(Paris,1980).
Gregory of Nyssa, Opera: gen. ed. W. Jaeger; particular works ed. W. Jaeger, F. Mueller,
J. McDonough, P. Alexander, H. Langerbeck, H. Musurillo, ). P. Cavarnos, V. W.
Callahan, G. Heil, A. Van Heck, E. Gebhardt, A. Spira, H. Horner, 0. Lendle,
E. Muhlenberg (10 vols. to date, with supplement) (Leiden, 1952-).
Hippolytus, Fragment De Libra Primo Regum, Quae de Helcana et Samuele: cf.
G. Jouassard, "Une citation et un ouvrage d·e saint Hippolyte sous le nom de saint
Jrenee?" RevSR 17 (1937), 290-305.
Isidore of Pelusium,Epistolae: ed. P. Evieux: SChr 422 (Paris, 1997); 454 (Paris, 2002).
Nestorius, Fragments: ed. F. Loafs, Nestoriana. Die Fragmente des Nestorius (Halle a.
s.,
1905).
Paul of Samosata, Fragments: ed. G. Bardy, Paul de Samosate (Louvain, 1929'). Cf. aiso
J. W. Feuerlein, Dissertatio de haeresi Pauli Samosateni (Gottingen, 1741); J. G.
Ehrlich, Dissertatio de erroribus Pauli Samosateni (Leipzig, 1745); M. J. Routh,
Reliquiae Sacrae (Oxford, 1814).
Proclus of Constantinople, Homilies 1-5: ed. N. Constas, Proclus of Constantinople and
the Cult of the Virgin in Late Antiquity (Leiden, 2003); for fragments, cf. C. Martin,
"Un florilege grec d'homelies christologiques des Ive et V" siecles sur la Nativite
(Paris Gr.1491);' Le Museon 54 (1941), 17-57.
Theodore of Mopsuestia, Fragments of Christological Works: ed. H.B. Swete, Theodori
Episcopi Mopsuesteni in Epistolas B. Pauli Commentarii II (Cambridge, 1882),
AppendlxA, pp. 289-322.
Timothy of Berytus, Ad Homonium: ed. H. Lietzmann, Apollinarius van Laodicea und
seine Schule (Tiibingen, 1904), 277-9.
Valentinus Apollinaristes, Capita Apologiae: ed. H. Lietzmann, Apollinarius von
Laodicea und seine Schule (Tiibingen, 1904), 287-91.
2. Florilegia Containing Parallel Texts
(The works are published in Greek unless otherwise noted.)
Anast. Sin., Hod. Anastasius of Sinai, Hodegos: ed. K.-H. Uthemann, CCG 8.
Arnobius )nnior, Confl. Arnobius Junior, Conflictus cum Serapione: ed. K. Daur,
cum Serap. [Lat.] CCL25A.
Cod. B. M. Syr. Add. A fifth- or sixth-century manuscript, containing part of a
14669 [Syr.] translation of Theodore of Mopsuestia's De Incarnatione:
ed. and tr. E. Sachau, Theodori Mopsuesteni Fragmenta
Syriaca (Leipzig, 1869).
Cod. Navar. 30, Flor. Florilegium in cod. Novariensis 30: ed. E. Schwartz, ACO IV,
[Lat.] 2, 74-96.