This sermon urges Christians to expose and retrieve other Christians who visit synagogues, while depicting Jewish worship as demonic. It records an effort to police Christian contact with Jewish life alongside the discourse’s dehumanizing claims about Jews.
Provenance
This is the discourse traditionally numbered 8 in John Chrysostom’s Κατὰ Ἰουδαίων (Against the Jews) series. The collection article explains the series, numbering, transmission and source architecture.1
The controlling witness is the PG 48 text at columns 927–942.
Contents and scope
The public scope contains the collated Greek transcription and page apparatus. Raw working transcripts and every English layer remain in the internal work area and are excluded from runtime publication.
Methods and limits
- The normalized Greek layer has been collated against the local PG-derived witness. The recorded scope is PG 48.927–942. The collation found no substantive variant beyond recorded extraction boundaries.2
- `editorial-review.tsv` maps scripture, historical claims, rhetorical operations and checked consequential phrases. `textual-notes.tsv` retains transmission and interpretive cautions.
Rights and permissions
The ancient Greek work and the PG witness are public domain. The normalized Greek transcription is adapted from Greek Wikisource, Λόγοι Κατά Ιουδαίων/8, revision 92416:
https://el.wikisource.org/w/index.php?oldid=92416
TJD removed wiki markup, divided the transcription into PG page units, corrected recorded extraction boundaries where needed, collated the complete retained Greek sequence against the PG-derived witness and added page apparatus. The public Greek transcription and its TJD page apparatus are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
The Wikisource revision link supplies the source text, contributor history and original license context. Any reuse or adaptation of the licensed public layers must retain attribution, identify changes and use the same license.
Raw working transcripts, every English layer, source facsimiles and private Research assets remain outside the runtime package. The English layers require a separate provenance and editorial decision before publication.
Date and sequence
This is traditional Homily 8, but it occupies position 8 in the revised delivery order. The corresponding dated record is John Chrysostom’s delivery of this discourse, assigned to 19 September 387 Julian.3
Source claims and limits
The homily’s collective accusations and attacks on Jewish religious life are the source’s claims. This edition presents them as historical evidence, not as endorsement.