00 24/06/2012 16:24


A report on the discovery of the Origen manuscripts was posted on Page 321 of this thread.

Presenting the newly-found
homilies of Origen
Translated from the 6/24/12 issue of


On June 13, L'Osservatore Romano reported the news of the extraordinary discovery made by an Italian philologist, Marina Molin Pradel, in Munich's Bavarian State Library (Bayerische Staatsbibilothek): 29 previously unpublished homilies in the original Greek text by the great Christian thinker Origen (AD 185-254). The texts were found in an 11th century codex, formally known as Monacense Greco 314.

Today, we publish some significant excerpts from those homilies, translated by the patrologist Lorenzo Perrone who has been named editor of the critical edition of the homilies.

This spread also features two excerpts from the detailed lecture which Perrone will give Monday, June 25, at the University of Padua at a seminar on Greek Paleography.

I will post translations of some of these items as soon as I have translated them.