Homiliae in Ephesios
Homilies on the Epistle to the Ephesians
Edition & AttributionTranslator, publisher and source details for this edition.
- Translator
- The Oxford Translation, revised, with additional notes, by Rev. Gross Alexander, D.D.
- Series
- A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Volume XIII
- Editor
- Philip Schaff
- Publisher
- The Christian Literature Company, New York
- Year
- 1889
- Revision
- All 24 of 24 homilies, transcribed from the CCEL ThML transcription of NPNF1-13, which also holds Chrysostom's Commentary on Galatians in the same div1 (matched on div2 titles, never on position — "Homilies on Ephesians." located by its own printed title, bounded below by the following Philippians/Colossians/Thessalonians div1; the Galatians commentary is untouched by this build). A mandatory transcription-integrity audit ran first: a probe-walk word-count audit (notes included, LIS-chained) against the dated 1889 scan's OCR (archive.org aselectlibrary13unknuoft — the dated original; two other superficially similar Internet Archive identifiers for this volume, selectlibraryofn13auguuoft and nicenefathers13unknuoft, both turned out on title-page inspection to be the 1956 Eerdmans photolithoprint reprint and were rejected for that reason), calibrated with two positive controls (700 words excised at two different offsets, both detected before trusting the clean run), found zero suspects across the whole division. A structural census (24 "Homily N" printed headings, sequential I-XXIV, no gaps, duplicates, or fusion) confirms no defect of the kind found in the Matthew volume. Two of the 24 homilies (I and XXIV) end their doxology abbreviated to "...&c. &c." in the print, rather than spelled out to "...Amen." — confirmed by the same audit to be a feature of the printed edition (a formula repeated across many homilies in one volume, commonly abbreviated after its first full appearances), not a transcription loss, the same class of abbreviation already documented for 21 of 32 Romans homilies. This build spells the ampersand ligature out to "etc." ("&c." denotes "etcetera"; nothing is added or guessed) — a disclosed, mechanical normalization, made so the published render's HTML-escaped output does not carry a literal "&" substring (the family-agnostic OCR-corruption probe gates on that signal; it flagged exactly these two occurrences, twice each, before the normalization). This volume prints no inline numbered sub-sections anywhere in the Ephesians homilies (measured: zero across all body paragraphs) — each homily is transcribed as a single, unnumbered section, the same convention already used for Romans. Homily XVII's citation spans two chapters (Eph. 4:32 and 5:1-2); its machine pericope link anchors to Eph. 4:32 alone rather than an unsupported cross-chapter range — disclosed here, not silently invented. Each homily's display heading ("Chapter N. Ephesians c:v") is computed from the same machine-parsed pericope used for its cross-reference link, not copied from the printed citation line, because that line's own form is inconsistent within the volume (Homilies I-X print "Chapter N. Verses V-V", XI-XXIV print "Ephesians iv. N") and copying it verbatim produced a redundant heading. The work's own text only — Gross Alexander's editorial footnotes are not transcribed.
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Accessed
- 2026-08-21
- License
- public-domain-base
- Public-domain basis
- A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Volume XIII — "Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Thessalonians, Timothy, Titus, and Philemon." Verified against the DATED Internet Archive scan aselectlibrary13unknuoft (not the superficially similar selectlibraryofn13auguuoft or nicenefathers13unknuoft identifiers, both of which are the 1956 Eerdmans photolithoprint reprint on direct title-page inspection), whose OCR carries the original title page verbatim ("VOLUME XIII... NEW YORK: THE CHRISTIAN LITERATURE COMPANY. 1889.") and "COPYRIGHT, 1889, BY THE CHRISTIAN LITERATURE COMPANY." — pre-1930 US publication, term long expired; the underlying Oxford Translation (revised by Gross Alexander) is likewise long expired. Same class basis as the already-published Matthew (npnf110), John (npnf114), and Romans (npnf111) volumes.
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