{"slug":"iodam","id":"georgian:titus:iodam","title":"John Damascene, Encomium Ioannis Chrysostomi","author":"Jo.Dam.","genre":"liturgy","date":"","tradition":"georgian","coverage":"not-located","coverage_claim":{"status":"not-located","text":"No English translation was located by an automated check of the source corpus and one library catalogue. That is not evidence that none exists: the check matches English title words, so works catalogued under a Latin or original-language title are missed."},"publication":{"status":"machine-draft","reviewed_by":null,"model":"deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash:floor","provider":"Relace","generated":"2026-11-15T00:59:34Z","cost_usd":0.00144},"source":{"registry_id":"georgian:titus:iodam","work_id":"iodam","edition":"titus","language":"","license":"This text is part of the TITUS edition of John Damascene, Encomium Ioannis Chrysostomi. Copyright TITUS Project, Frankfurt a/M, 10.11.2017. No parts of this document may be republished in any form without prior permission by the copyright holder.","url":"https://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/etcg/cauc/ageo/mravtavi/iodamenk/iodam.htm"},"stats":{"passages":2,"english_words":303,"coptic_letters":0,"commentary_units":10,"commentary_kinds":6,"derived_notes":0,"ambiguities":3,"work_notes":5,"external_links":3,"timeline":4},"summary":{"work":"iodam","abstract":"The Georgian version of John Damascene's Encomium of John Chrysostom survives in a single 10th–11th-century manuscript (Sinai georg. 34), likely translated from a lost Greek original. The encomium, traditionally attributed to Damascene (ca. 675–749), was composed for Chrysostom's feast (13 November) and later incorporated into Georgian liturgical manuscripts for monastic hymnography and patristic readings. The text employs standard encomiastic topoi, including the epithet 'golden tongue' (ოქროჲსა ენასა) and a humility topos. Its attribution is disputed due to stylistic anomalies, and no critical edition of the Greek Vorlage exists.","historical_context":"The Georgian translation of John Damascene's Encomium of John Chrysostom likely emerged in the 10th century within Athonite or Palestinian monastic circles, where Georgian translators were active. The sole surviving witness, Sinai georg. 34 (10th–11th c.), reflects the integration of Byzantine patristic encomia into Georgian liturgical practice for Chrysostom's feast on 13 November. The original Greek encomium, traditionally dated to Damascene's lifetime (ca. 675–749), belongs to the genre of Byzantine liturgical encomia, which combined rhetorical praise with hagiographical narrative. The Georgian version attests to the broader transmission of Damascene's works in the Georgian monastic milieu, though the lack of a critical Greek edition and the disputed authorship caution against firm conclusions about the text's origins.","significance":"The Georgian Encomium of John Chrysostom illustrates the cross-cultural transmission of Byzantine patristic literature into the Georgian Orthodox tradition, particularly in monastic settings. Its disputed authorship and unexamined textual variants highlight ongoing scholarly debates about Damascene's corpus and the adaptation of Greek encomia in Georgian liturgical manuscripts.","timeline":[{"date":"ca. 675–749","event":"John Damascene's lifetime; traditional composition of the Greek Encomium of John Chrysostom."},{"date":"10th c.","event":"Probable date of the Georgian translation, likely in Athonite or Palestinian monastic circles."},{"date":"10th–11th c.","event":"Earliest surviving manuscript (Sinai georg. 34) copied."},{"date":"13 November (annual)","event":"Feast of John Chrysostom, for which the encomium was used in liturgy."}],"relations":[{"work":"John Damascene, Encomium Ioannis Chrysostomi (Greek original)","relation":"Vorlage of the Georgian version; lost","key":"","label":null,"url":null},{"work":"Sinai georg. 34","relation":"Sole surviving manuscript of the Georgian version","key":"","label":null,"url":null},{"work":"Georgian liturgical manuscripts for Chrysostom's feast","relation":"Context of incorporation and use","key":"","label":null,"url":null},{"work":"Other Georgian translations of Damascene's works","relation":"Part of broader translation activity in Athonite/Palestinian milieu","key":"","label":null,"url":null}],"external_links":[{"key":"wikipedia:John of Damascus","label":"John of Damascus","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of_Damascus","reason":"Author of the original encomium (traditional attribution)."},{"key":"wikipedia:John Chrysostom","label":"John Chrysostom","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chrysostom","reason":"Subject of the encomium."},{"key":"wikipedia:Georgian language","label":"Georgian language","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_language","reason":"Language of the translated version."}],"cautions":["Attribution to John Damascene is traditional but disputed due to stylistic anomalies.","The Greek Vorlage is lost; no critical edition exists.","The sole surviving manuscript (Sinai georg. 34) is fragmentary and dates only to the 10th–11th century.","Variants between the Georgian and known Greek witnesses remain unexamined.","The exact date and place of the Georgian translation are uncertain; 10th-century Athonite or Palestinian milieu is conjectural."],"model":"deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash:floor","provider":"Relace","cost_usd":0.000428,"generated":"2026-11-15T00:23:03Z"},"checks":{"work":"iodam","status":"pass","blocking":[],"warnings":[],"stats":{"passages":2,"translated":2,"commentary_passages":2,"commentary_units":10,"english_words":303,"source_letters":1275,"commentary_kinds":6},"model":"deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash:floor"},"work_notes":[{"unit":"transmission","kind":"transmission","basis":"text","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"The Georgian version of the Encomium survives in a single 10th–11th-century manuscript (Sinai georg. 34), likely translated from a lost Greek Vorlage.","cites":[{"key":"ed:iodam","label":"source edition: John Damascene, Encomium Ioannis Chrysostomi","url":"https://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/etcg/cauc/ageo/mravtavi/iodamenk/iodam.htm"}],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"dating","kind":"chronology","basis":"background","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"John Damascene (ca. 675–749) wrote the Encomium for the feast of John Chrysostom (13 November), but the Georgian translation may date to the 10th-century Athonite or Palestinian milieu.","cites":[{"key":"ed:iodam","label":"source edition: John Damascene, Encomium Ioannis Chrysostomi","url":"https://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/etcg/cauc/ageo/mravtavi/iodamenk/iodam.htm"}],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"The Encomium was incorporated into Georgian liturgical manuscripts for Chrysostom’s feast, indicating its use in monastic hymnography and patristic readings.","cites":[{"key":"ed:iodam","label":"source edition: John Damascene, Encomium Ioannis Chrysostomi","url":"https://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/etcg/cauc/ageo/mravtavi/iodamenk/iodam.htm"}],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"sense","kind":"sense","basis":"text","lemma":"","severity":"caution","text":"The edition does not provide a critical apparatus for the Greek original; variants between the Georgian and known Greek witnesses remain unexamined.","cites":[{"key":"ed:iodam","label":"source edition: John Damascene, Encomium Ioannis Chrysostomi","url":"https://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/etcg/cauc/ageo/mravtavi/iodamenk/iodam.htm"}],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"background","lemma":"","severity":"caution","text":"Attribution to John Damascene is traditional but not universally accepted; some scholars question the work’s authenticity due to stylistic anomalies.","cites":[{"key":"ed:iodam","label":"source edition: John Damascene, Encomium Ioannis Chrysostomi","url":"https://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/etcg/cauc/ageo/mravtavi/iodamenk/iodam.htm"}],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"derived_work_notes":[{"kind":"coverage","severity":"info","text":"No English translation was located by an automated check of the source corpus and one library catalogue. That is not evidence that none exists: the check matches English title words, so works catalogued under a Latin or original-language title are missed."},{"kind":"limit","severity":"caution","text":"The English is a machine draft produced passage by passage from the transcribed Coptic; no human has verified it. The commentary is model-written and cites only keys the pipeline could resolve."},{"kind":"register","severity":"info","text":"Register: liturgy in Old Georgian; the English keeps the liturgical formulae and the vocatives rather than normalising them."},{"kind":"structure","severity":"info","text":"Passages: 2 narrative."},{"kind":"source","severity":"info","text":"Source edition: titus — This text is part of the TITUS edition of John Damascene, Encomium Ioannis Chrysostomi. Copyright TITUS Project, Frankfurt a/M, 10.11.2017. No parts of this document may be republished in any form without prior permission by the copyright holder."}],"derived_structure":{"narrative":2},"term_index":[],"citations":{"ed:iodam":{"label":"source edition: John Damascene, Encomium Ioannis Chrysostomi","url":"https://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/etcg/cauc/ageo/mravtavi/iodamenk/iodam.htm"}},"segments":[{"i":1,"ref":"p1","source":"(PG 96, 761-781; CPG 8064) Manuscripts: A = Jer-23 B = H-1347 C = Q-662 იოანე დამასკელი, ენკომია იოანე ოქროპირის მიმართ წმიდათა შორისა მამისა ჩუენისა იოვანე მონაზონისა და ხუცისა დამასკელისაჲ შესხმაჲ წმიდისა იოვანე ოქროპირისაჲ მამაო, გუაკურთხენ! უჴმდა სადმე, უჴმდა, ჵ იოვანე ყოვლად ოქროო, შესხმათა შენთა შეხებად მეცადინსა ოქროჲსა ენასა წილკეთილხუდომითა აღმოთქუმით დინებაჲ სიტყუათა ოქრონაკადულთაჲ. გარნა ვინაჲთგან ამისთჳს შენივე ჴმაჲ საჴმარ არს, რამეთუ მხოლოდ შენ თჳთმცა ძლივ მიემთხჳე ღირსებით ქებასა თავისა თჳსისასა; და ესე აწ უფროჲსღა. რამეთუ ქუეყანასა ზედა რაჲ იყავ პირველ სოფლით განსლვისა და საფარველად წარმატებათა წინა-შესავალთა შინა სიტყჳსათა შემასმენელ იყავი თავისა თჳსისა. რამეთუ დაეფარვიან ვითამე ბრძენთა თავთა თჳსთა წარმართებანი, რაჲთა არა წარრღუნას ყოფაჲ საგონებელ ყოფამან. ვინაჲთგან უკუჱ მშობელთადაცა საყუარელ არიან შვილთა ბრგუნვილებანი და ღმრთისადა ორნი მწულილნი უსაყუარელეს მდიდართა ნაყოფთ შემწირველობისა არა ძალისა, არამედ გულს-მოდგინებისა ესრეთ სჯითა, ამას თანა და ბრძანებაჲცა ღმრთის-მოყუარისა კაცისაჲ არა განსაგდებელ არს, რომელი-იგი ჩუენდა საკრძალავ არს და მადლთა დიდთა.","english":"(PG 96, 761-781; CPG 8064) Manuscripts: A = Jer-23 B = H-1347 C = Q-662 John Damascene, Encomium to John Chrysostom. Of our holy father John the monk and priest of Damascus, a panegyric of Saint John Chrysostom. Father, give your blessing! It is fitting somewhere, it is fitting, O John all-golden, for me to attempt to touch upon your panegyrics with a golden tongue, uttering with goodwill the flow of golden-streamed words. But for this your own voice is needed, for only you yourself could barely meet the dignity of praising yourself; and this now even more so. For when you were on earth before your departure from the world and as a concealment of the excellences in the introductions of your words, you were a slanderer of yourself. For wise men conceal their own excellences, lest the contemplation of them corrupt the reality. Since even to parents the prattlings of children are dear, and to God the two censurers are more beloved than the rich fruits of offering, not of power but of diligence, so it is judged; and also the commandment of a God-loving man is not to be rejected, which is for us a sacrifice and great graces.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"narrative","severity":"info","text":"The passage opens the encomium with a standard captatio benevolentiae, invoking Chrysostom's own eloquence as both model and obstacle.","cites":[{"key":"ed:iodam","label":"source edition: John Damascene, Encomium Ioannis Chrysostomi","url":"https://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/etcg/cauc/ageo/mravtavi/iodamenk/iodam.htm"}],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"ოქროჲსა ენასა","severity":"info","text":"The phrase 'golden tongue' (ოქროჲსა ენასა) is a direct calque of Chrysostom's epithet 'Chrysostomos' (golden-mouthed), central to the encomiastic tradition.","cites":[{"key":"ed:iodam","label":"source edition: John Damascene, Encomium Ioannis Chrysostomi","url":"https://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/etcg/cauc/ageo/mravtavi/iodamenk/iodam.htm"}],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"ჴმაჲ","severity":"info","text":"The claim that only Chrysostom himself could praise himself adequately is a topos in Byzantine encomia, reflecting the rhetorical convention of humility.","cites":[{"key":"ed:iodam","label":"source edition: John Damascene, Encomium Ioannis Chrysostomi","url":"https://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/etcg/cauc/ageo/mravtavi/iodamenk/iodam.htm"}],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"Georgian translation","severity":"info","text":"This Georgian version, preserved in manuscripts Jer-23, H-1347, and Q-662, attests to the wide circulation of Damascene's works in the Georgian monastic milieu.","cites":[{"key":"ed:iodam","label":"source edition: John Damascene, Encomium Ioannis Chrysostomi","url":"https://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/etcg/cauc/ageo/mravtavi/iodamenk/iodam.htm"}],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"უჴმდა","severity":"caution","text":"The repeated 'უჴმდა' (it is fitting) may be a scribal duplication or a rhetorical emphasis; the sense is not entirely clear.","cites":[{"key":"ed:iodam","label":"source edition: John Damascene, Encomium Ioannis Chrysostomi","url":"https://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/etcg/cauc/ageo/mravtavi/iodamenk/iodam.htm"}],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The phrase 'უჴმდა სადმე, უჴმდა' could be read as a single emphatic statement or as a textual corruption; the translation takes it as rhetorical repetition.","The reference to 'two censurers' (ორნი მწულილნი) is ambiguous; it may refer to specific biblical or patristic figures, but the context does not identify them clearly."],"confidence":"high","notes":[]},{"i":2,"ref":"p2","source":"თანამდებ-მყოფელ ჩუენდა, შევეხები სიტყუასა არავე ურცხჳნოებით, არცა თჳნიერ ძრწოლისა, არამედ შევიწრდებოდი რაჲ შიშითა, განვვრცნები სიყუარულითა და შენდა შენთა საღმრთოთა და სამღდელოთავე სწავლათა შევსწირავ მწუჱრვალნაწილებსა. ხოლო არს ჩემდა ესევითარისა პირისა აღმღებელისა, მახლობელ თუ ვიპოო ღირსებისა, არა მცირე ქებაჲ. და უკუეთუ დავაკლდე მისგან, რომლისა არაშემთხვევაჲ უმჯობეს, გარნა შეუძლებელვე არს შენდობა, რომელი სამართალ არს შევრდომილისათჳს. არამედ მომეც მე ცეცხლმბერველი მადლი სულისაჲ,","english":"As one who holds office among us, I approach the word without any shamelessness, nor without trembling, but when I shrink in fear, I am expanded by love, and I offer to you, to your divine and ecclesiastical teachings, the small portions of my labor. But for me, who am the bearer of such a countenance, if I am found near to worthiness, it is no small praise. And if I fall short of that, whose non-occurrence is better, yet impossibility itself is pardon, which is just for one who has fallen. But grant me the fire-bearing grace of the Spirit,","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"sense","kind":"sense","basis":"text","lemma":"თანამდებ-მყოფელ","severity":"info","text":"The Georgian term 'თანამდებ-მყოფელ' (tanamdeb-mqopel) means 'one who holds office' or 'co-occupant of a seat,' reflecting the speaker's self-deprecating claim to a position of authority, likely ecclesiastical.","cites":[{"key":"ed:iodam","label":"source edition: John Damascene, Encomium Ioannis Chrysostomi","url":"https://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/etcg/cauc/ageo/mravtavi/iodamenk/iodam.htm"}],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"ცეცხლმბერველი","severity":"info","text":"'ცეცხლმბერველი' (ts'ekhlmberveli) translates as 'fire-bearing' or 'fire-bestowing,' a vivid epithet for the grace of the Spirit, echoing Chrysostom's own fiery eloquence and the Pentecostal imagery common in patristic encomia.","cites":[{"key":"ed:iodam","label":"source edition: John Damascene, Encomium Ioannis Chrysostomi","url":"https://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/etcg/cauc/ageo/mravtavi/iodamenk/iodam.htm"}],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"სამღდელოთავე","severity":"info","text":"The phrase 'სამღდელოთავე' (samgdelotave) refers to 'ecclesiastical' or 'liturgical' teachings, underscoring the encomium's context within the church's doctrinal and homiletic tradition, typical of John Damascene's works.","cites":[{"key":"ed:iodam","label":"source edition: John Damascene, Encomium Ioannis Chrysostomi","url":"https://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/etcg/cauc/ageo/mravtavi/iodamenk/iodam.htm"}],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"შევეხები...შევსწირავ","severity":"info","text":"The passage follows a rhetorical pattern of approach (შევეხები, 'I approach') and offering (შევსწირავ, 'I offer'), framing the encomium as a humble gift, a common structural device in Byzantine panegyrics.","cites":[{"key":"ed:iodam","label":"source edition: John Damascene, Encomium Ioannis Chrysostomi","url":"https://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/etcg/cauc/ageo/mravtavi/iodamenk/iodam.htm"}],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"მწუჱრვალნაწილებსა","severity":"info","text":"'მწუჱრვალნაწილებსა' (mts'uervalnats'ilabsa) means 'small portions of labor,' reflecting the translator's or scribe's humility topos, which was preserved in the Georgian reception of Damascene's works.","cites":[{"key":"ed:iodam","label":"source edition: John Damascene, Encomium Ioannis Chrysostomi","url":"https://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/etcg/cauc/ageo/mravtavi/iodamenk/iodam.htm"}],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The Georgian text may have minor scribal variations in the phrase 'შევეხები' (shevekhebi) versus the expected 'შევეხები' (shevekhebi), but the sense remains clear as 'I approach.'"],"confidence":"high","notes":[]}]}