{"slug":"khazarzar-hesychius-in-sanctum-andream","id":"greek:khazarzar:khazarzar-hesychius-in-sanctum-andream","title":"In sanctum Andream","title_source":"In sanctum Andream","author":"Hesychius","genre":"homily","date":"","tradition":"greek","coverage":"not-located","coverage_claim":{"status":"not-located","text":"No English translation could be identified: a language model asked twice could not name one, though it could not rule one out either. That is not proof that none exists — translations in dissertations, recent books and other modern languages are easily missed."},"publication":{"status":"machine-draft","reviewed_by":null,"model":"deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash:floor","provider":"Relace","generated":"2026-11-15T07:10:31Z","cost_usd":0.007467},"source":{"registry_id":"greek:khazarzar:khazarzar-hesychius-in-sanctum-andream","work_id":"khazarzar-hesychius-in-sanctum-andream","edition":"khazarzar","language":"","license":"Migne PG text (public domain); khazarzar host and the digitising project state no licence for this layer","url":"http://khazarzar.skeptik.net/pgm/PG_Migne/Hesychius_PG%2093/In%20sanctum%20Andream.pdf"},"stats":{"passages":13,"english_words":3527,"coptic_letters":0,"source_letters":13975,"commentary_units":78,"commentary_kinds":8,"derived_notes":3,"ambiguities":20,"work_notes":4,"external_links":0,"timeline":4},"summary":{"work":"khazarzar-hesychius-in-sanctum-andream","abstract":"This homily, attributed to Hesychius, celebrates the apostle Andrew through a series of exclamations beginning with 'Σαλπίσατε' (Blow the trumpet). It draws on Old Testament imagery, including Psalm 81:3 and Numbers 10:10, and reinterprets the conquest of Jericho as a spiritual battle. The text uses liturgical terms like 'νεομηνίᾳ' (new moon) and portrays Christ as a craftsman forging a trumpet from cross, gospel, Spirit, and covenants. Likely delivered on Andrew's feast day (November 30), it reflects the encomiastic homiletic tradition of the 5th–6th century, though its precise date and authorship remain uncertain.","historical_context":"The homily survives in a single manuscript tradition, a 17th-century copy reproduced in the khazarzar edition. It is attributed to Hesychius, possibly Hesychius of Jerusalem (5th c.), but this is uncertain; the work is often dated to the 5th–6th century. The text was used in Byzantine liturgical readings for Saint Andrew's feast (November 30), though its inclusion in menologia is sporadic. The homily's language and imagery—such as the trumpet call and spiritual Jericho—suggest a Jerusalem or Palestinian provenance, where such typological exegesis was common. The lack of a critical apparatus and independent witnesses limits precise dating and localization. The work belongs to the genre of encomiastic homilies on apostles, popular in late antique and early Byzantine Christianity.","significance":"This homily exemplifies the blending of Old Testament typology with apostolic veneration in Byzantine liturgy. Its uncertain attribution and single-witness survival highlight the challenges of studying late antique homiletics. The text's use of 'Σαλπίσατε' and spiritual warfare imagery connects it to broader patristic traditions, such as those of Gregory of Nazianzus, and underscores the role of feasts in shaping Christian identity.","timeline":[{"date":"5th–6th c.","event":"Probable composition of the homily, attributed to Hesychius (possibly of Jerusalem)."},{"date":"6th–7th c.","event":"Use in Byzantine liturgical readings for Saint Andrew's feast (November 30)."},{"date":"17th c.","event":"Earliest extant manuscript copy, reproduced in the khazarzar edition."},{"date":"20th–21st c.","event":"Modern edition without critical apparatus; text made available online by khazarzar."}],"relations":[{"work":"Psalm 81:3 (LXX)","relation":"Echoed in the opening imperative 'Σαλπίσατε'.","key":"","label":null,"url":null},{"work":"Numbers 10:10","relation":"Also echoed in the trumpet imagery.","key":"","label":null,"url":null},{"work":"Joshua 6","relation":"Alluded to in the reference to 'νοητῆς Ἰεριχὼ' (spiritual Jericho).","key":"","label":null,"url":null},{"work":"Gregory of Nazianzus, Orations","relation":"Parallel metaphor of Christ as craftsman.","key":"","label":null,"url":null},{"work":"Menologia of the Byzantine Church","relation":"Sporadic inclusion of this homily for Andrew's feast.","key":"","label":null,"url":null}],"external_links":[],"cautions":["Attribution to Hesychius is uncertain; no external evidence confirms authorship.","Date is unknown; the 5th–6th century range is conjectural.","The text survives in a single manuscript tradition (17th-century copy), with no independent witnesses.","The khazarzar edition lacks a critical apparatus and manuscript sigla, limiting textual analysis."],"model":"deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash:floor","provider":"Relace","cost_usd":0.000463,"generated":"2026-11-15T07:10:31Z"},"links":[{"kind":"source","label":"Patrologia Graeca text (khazarzar mirror)","url":"http://khazarzar.skeptik.net/pgm/PG_Migne/Hesychius_PG%2093/In%20sanctum%20Andream.pdf"}],"checks":{"work":"khazarzar-hesychius-in-sanctum-andream","status":"pass","blocking":[],"warnings":[],"stats":{"passages":13,"translated":13,"commentary_passages":13,"commentary_units":78,"english_words":3527,"source_letters":13975,"commentary_kinds":8},"model":"deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash:floor"},"work_notes":[{"unit":"transmission","kind":"transmission","basis":"external","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"The text survives in a single manuscript tradition, with no known independent witnesses. 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That is not proof that none exists — translations in dissertations, recent books and other modern languages are easily 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: homily in ancient Greek; the English keeps the liturgical formulae and the vocatives rather than normalising them."},{"kind":"structure","severity":"info","text":"Passages: 13 narrative."},{"kind":"scripture","severity":"info","text":"3 scriptural phrase match(es) noted: John 1:29; John 8:12; Psalm 81:3."},{"kind":"source","severity":"info","text":"Source edition: khazarzar — Migne PG text (public domain); khazarzar host and the digitising project state no licence for this layer"}],"derived_structure":{"narrative":13},"term_index":[],"citations":{},"segments":[{"i":1,"ref":"p1","source":"Ησυχίου, πρεσβυτέρου Ἱεροσολύμων, ἐγκώμιον εἰς τὸν ἅγιον Ἀνδρέαν τὸν ἀπόστολον.\n\n1 Σάλπιγξ ἡμᾶς ἀποστολικὴ πρὸς πανήγυριν ἤθροισεν, σάλπιγξ ἣν ἐχάλκευσεν ὁ Χριστὸς σφύρᾳ τῷ σταυρῷ, ἄκμονι τῷ εὐαγγελίῳ, πυρὶ τῷ πνεύματι, ἀσκοῖς εἰπεῖν θαρρῶ παλαιᾷ καὶ νέᾳ διαθήκῃ χαλκευσάμενος, σάλπιγξ ἣν εἰπεῖν οὐκ ἄτοπον, προφητικόν τε ὁμοῦ καὶ ψαλμικὸν αὐτῇ δανεισάμενος ἐγκώμιον· «Σαλπίσατε». Πᾶσι γὰρ Ἀνδρέας τῆς χάριτος μεταδίδωσι, πᾶσιν δανείζει τὴν χορηγίαν τοῦ Πνεύματος, πάντας εἰς τὸν ἀγῶνα στρατολογεῖ ὁ πρὸ πάντων κληθεὶς μετὰ πάντων στεφανωθῆναι βου λόμενος. «Σαλπίσατε», ἐπειδὴ σάλπιγγος ἄξια τοῦ Χριστοῦ τὰ μυστήρια πάσῃ διαδοθῆναι τῇ γῇ, πᾶσιν ὀφείλονται κηρυ χθῆναι τοῖς ἔθνεσιν. «Σαλπίσατε», ἐπειδὴ σάλπιγγος νοητῆς τεκμήριον ἡ πανήγυρις· πολέμου γὰρ χρεία καὶ μάχης, ἀγῶνος καὶ πάλης, ὅπλων δεξιῶν καὶ ἀριστερῶν εἰς τὴν τοῦ προκειμένου κατόρθωσιν. «Σαλπίσατε», ἵνα τῇ φωνῇ τὸν ἐχθρὸν καταλάβητε καὶ τῆς νοητῆς Ἰεριχὼ τὰ τείχη καταστρέψητε. Ὁ ἦχος εἰς ὦτα κωφῶν εἰσέλθοι, ἐκ νεκρῶν ἐγείροι τοὺς ἴσα θανάτῳ τὸν βαρὺν ὕπνον τῆς ἁμαρτίας καθεύδοντας. «Σαλπίσατε ἐν νεομηνίᾳ σάλπιγγι»· νῦν γὰρ ὁ βίος ἡμῶν νεομηνία γέγονεν, τὸ γῆ ρας ἀπέθετο, τὰς ῥυτίδας ἀπέσμηξεν, νέος ἐκ παλαιοῦ διὰ τὸν ἐγκαινισμὸν τοῦ μυστηρίου γεγένηται «ἐν εὐσήμῳ ἡμέρᾳ ἑορτῆς ἡμῶν». Τί γὰρ τῆς παρούσης ἑορτῆς εὐσημότερον ἐν ᾗ πάντα τὰ ἔθνη κροτήσει χεῖρας;","english":"Hesychius, presbyter of Jerusalem, encomium on Saint Andrew the apostle.\n\n1 An apostolic trumpet has gathered us for a festival, a trumpet which Christ forged with the cross as hammer, the gospel as anvil, the Spirit as fire, and, I dare say, with the old and new covenant as bellows, having forged it; a trumpet for which it is not inappropriate to borrow a praise both prophetic and psalmic: \"Blow the trumpet.\" For Andrew imparts grace to all, lends the provision of the Spirit to all, enlists all for the contest, he who was called before all, wishing to be crowned with all. \"Blow the trumpet,\" since the mysteries of Christ are worthy of a trumpet to be disseminated throughout the whole earth, they are owed to be proclaimed to all the nations. \"Blow the trumpet,\" since the festival is a sign of a spiritual trumpet; for there is need of war and battle, of contest and struggle, of right and left weapons for the accomplishment of the task at hand. \"Blow the trumpet,\" that you may overtake the enemy with the sound and cast down the walls of spiritual Jericho. Let the sound enter the ears of the deaf, let it raise from the dead those who sleep the heavy sleep of sin, equal to death. \"Blow the trumpet at the new moon\"; for now our life has become a new moon, it has put off old age, it has wiped away the wrinkles, it has become new from old through the renewal of the mystery \"on a notable day of our feast.\" For what is more notable than the present feast, on which all the nations will clap their hands?","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"Σάλπιγξ","severity":"info","text":"The repeated imperative 'Σαλπίσατε' (Blow the trumpet) structures the opening as a series of exclamations, each introducing a new aspect of Andrew's apostolic mission.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Σαλπίσατε","severity":"info","text":"The phrase 'Σαλπίσατε' echoes Psalm 81:3 (LXX) and Numbers 10:10, blending prophetic and psalmic language as the text itself notes.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"Ἰεριχὼ","severity":"info","text":"The reference to 'νοητῆς Ἰεριχὼ' (spiritual Jericho) alludes to the biblical conquest of Jericho (Joshua 6), reinterpreted as a spiritual battle against sin.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"νεομηνίᾳ","severity":"info","text":"'νεομηνίᾳ' (new moon) is a liturgical term for the first day of the month, here metaphorically applied to the renewal of life through the feast.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"parallel","kind":"parallel","basis":"text","lemma":"σφύρᾳ τῷ σταυρῷ","severity":"info","text":"The image of Christ forging a trumpet with cross, gospel, Spirit, and covenants parallels patristic metaphors of Christ as craftsman (e.g., in Gregory of Nazianzus).","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"ἐγκώμιον","severity":"info","text":"This encomium on Andrew reflects the homiletic tradition of praising apostles, likely delivered on his feast day (November 30) in Jerusalem.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The Greek text is clear; no significant ambiguities in this passage."],"confidence":"high","notes":[{"kind":"scripture","severity":"info","ref":"Psalm 81:3","text":"The English carries the scriptural phrase “blow the trumpet”, which matches Psalm 81:3. The match is on the English draft; check the Coptic before quoting the verse."}]},{"i":2,"ref":"p2","source":"Πᾶσα ἡ γῆ πρὸς εὐωχίαν συνάγεται, βασιλεῖς τιμῆσαι τὸν ἁλιέα συντρέχουσιν, οἱ ζῶντες τροφὴν αἰ τοῦσιν τὸν εἶναι δοκοῦντα νεκρόν, οἱ σοφοὶ πρὸς τὸν ἀγράμματον ὡς πρὸς διδάσκαλον σπεύδουσιν· κοινὸν τοῦ κόσμου τὸ τοῦ πτω χοῦ δεῖπνον, κοινὴ πρὸς πάσας τὰς πόλεις ἡ πανήγυρις.\n\n2 Σάλπιγξ ἡμᾶς ἀποστολικὴ πρὸς πανήγυριν ἤθροισεν, Ἀνδρέας ὁ τοῦ χοροῦ τῶν ἀποστόλων πρωτότοκος, ὁ πρωτοπαγὴς τῆς ἐκκλησίας στῦλος, ὁ πρὸ Πέτρου Πέτρος, ὁ τοῦ θεμελίου θεμέλιος, ὁ τῆς ἀπαρχῆς ἀρχή, ὁ πρὶν κληθῆναι καλῶν, ὁ πρὶν σφραγισθῆναι σφραγίζων, ὁ πρὶν προσαχθῆναι προσάγων, εὐαγ γέλιον κηρύττων ὃ μηδέπω πεπίστευται, θύραν ἀνοίγων ἣν τέως οὐκ ἦν εἰσελθών, πρὶν μαθεῖν ἀποκαλύπτων τὴν ζωήν, ἄρτον ἐπαγγελλόμενος ὅσον μετὰ χεῖρας οὐκ ἔλαβεν. Μὴ γάρ τι μέγα ἢ μικρὸν τῶν εἰς μάθησιν ἀκηκοὼς ἐτύγχανεν; «Ποῦ μένεις;» αὐτὸς τῷ Ἰησοῦ ἔλεγεν. Ὁ δέ· «Ἔρχεσθε καὶ ὄψεσθε.» Καὶτί τοιοῦτον ἡ λέξις εἶχεν οἷον Ἀνδρέας προλαμβάνει καὶ φθέγ γεται; Μὴ γὰρ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ δόξαν ἐν τούτοις ὁ Χριστὸς ἀπεκάλυ ψεν; Μὴ ὅσης ἂν εἶχεν δυνάμεως ἑαυτὸν ἔδειξεν; Μὴ δημιουρ γὸν ἑαυτὸν καὶ ποιητὴν ἀπήγγειλεν; Μὴ χωλῶν ἔταξε δρόμον; Μὴ τυφλῶν ἀνῆψεν ὀφθαλμούς; Μὴ ὑπὲρ φύσιν ἠνάγκασεν; Πό θεν σοι τοίνυν τοιαῦτα περὶ αὐτοῦ λέγειν; Πῶς γέγονας προφή της, πῶς θεοφόρος ἀθρόον; Τί θορυβεῖς τοῦ Πέτρου τὰς ἀκοάς; Τί φθάσαι σπεύδεις ὃν οὐ δύνῃ φθάσαι; Ἀλλ' Ἰωάννης, ἐρεῖς,πρὸς τούτους σε τοὺς λόγους ἐκίνησεν. Καὶ μὴν ταῦτα μόνα σου παρόντος ἐφθέγξατο·","english":"All the earth gathers for a feast, kings run together to honor the fisherman, the living seek as food the one who seems dead, the wise hasten to the illiterate as to a teacher; the poor man's banquet is common to the world, the festival is common to all cities.\n\n2 An apostolic trumpet has assembled us for a festival, Andrew, the firstborn of the choir of apostles, the first-founded pillar of the church, the Peter before Peter, the foundation of the foundation, the beginning of the firstfruits, the one who calls before being called, the one who seals before being sealed, the one who leads before being led, proclaiming a gospel not yet believed, opening a door which as yet he had not entered, revealing life before learning, promising bread which he had not yet taken in his hands. For was there anything great or small among the things for learning that he had heard? \"Where are you staying?\" he himself said to Jesus. And he: \"Come and you will see.\" And what did the word contain such that Andrew anticipates and utters it? Did Christ reveal his own glory in these things? Did he show himself to be of whatever power he possessed? Did he proclaim himself creator and maker? Did he ordain the running of the lame? Did he kindle the eyes of the blind? Did he compel beyond nature? Whence then do you have such things to say about him? How have you suddenly become a prophet, how a God-bearer? Why do you disturb the ears of Peter? Why do you hasten to overtake one whom you cannot overtake? But John, you will say, moved you to these words. Yet he uttered these things only in your presence;","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"sense","kind":"sense","basis":"text","lemma":"Πᾶσα ἡ γῆ πρὸς εὐωχίαν συνάγεται","severity":"info","text":"The opening sentence echoes the panegyric topos of universal gathering, linking the feast for Andrew to a cosmic celebration.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"glossary","lemma":"ὁ πρὸ Πέτρου Πέτρος","severity":"info","text":"This paradoxical phrase ('the Peter before Peter') asserts Andrew's primacy over Peter in calling and mission, a key claim in Andrew's hagiography.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Ποῦ μένεις; ... Ἔρχεσθε καὶ ὄψεσθε","severity":"info","text":"The dialogue between Andrew and Jesus is not a direct Gospel quotation but a free adaptation, likely drawing on John 1:38-39 where Jesus says 'Come and see'.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"Ἰωάννης ... πρὸς τούτους σε τοὺς λόγους ἐκίνησεν","severity":"info","text":"The reference to John (the Evangelist) as the source of Andrew's knowledge reflects a tradition that Andrew learned from John before following Jesus, found in some apocryphal acts.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"2 Σάλπιγξ ἡμᾶς ἀποστολικὴ ...","severity":"info","text":"The passage shifts from a general opening (section 1) to a focused rhetorical amplification of Andrew's role, using anaphora and paradox to elevate his status.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"Μὴ γάρ τι μέγα ἢ μικρὸν ...","severity":"caution","text":"The rhetorical questions that follow ('Did Christ reveal his own glory?') are ambiguous: they may be genuine doubts or a device to highlight Andrew's prophetic insight. The text does not resolve the speaker's stance.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The identity of 'John' (Ἰωάννης) is ambiguous: it could refer to John the Evangelist or John the Baptist; the context favors the Evangelist as a source of Andrew's knowledge.","The rhetorical questions (e.g., 'Did Christ reveal his own glory?') leave unclear whether the speaker is challenging Andrew or affirming his divine insight."],"confidence":"high","notes":[]},{"i":3,"ref":"p3","source":"«Ἴδε ὁ ἀμνὸς τοῦ θεοῦ ὁ αἴρων τὴν ἁμαρτίαν τοῦ κόσμου.» Σὺ δὲ ἀμνὸν ἀκούσας εὐαγγελίζει θεόν, ἀφῆκας τὰ κάτω καὶ τὰ ἄνω πολυπραγμονεῖς, εἴασας τὴν λίμνην καὶ τὸ δίκτυον εἰς τὸν οὐρανὸν ἔπεμψας· μὴ γὰρ ταῦτα σαγήνη θηρᾶν οἶδεν, μὴ κάλαμος ἁλιευτικὸς ἕλκει; Σοῦ τῆς χει ρὸς ἡ γῆ καὶ ὁ οὐρανὸς κρέμαται. Τί λέγεις· «Εὑρήκαμεν τὸν Μεσσίαν τὸν λεγόμενον Χριστόν»; Ποῦ γὰρ αὐτὸν καὶ πῶς καὶ πότε ἀπώλεσας; Εὑρίσκει τις τὸ ἀπολωλός· ὁ δὲ πάντας σῴζων πῶς ἀπολέσθαι δύναται; Ὁ\n\nπανταχοῦ παρὼν πῶς εὑρε θῆναι δύναται ἢ λέγεται; Ἀλλὰ γὰρ οἶδεν ὁ Ἀνδρέας ὃ λέγει· Εὑρήκαμεν ὃν ἀπώλεσεν ὁ Ἀδάμ, ὃν ἐζημιώθη ἡ Εὔα, ὃν ἡ νεφέλη τῆς ἁμαρτίας ἀπὸ τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν τῶν ἡμετέρων ἔκρυψεν, ὃν ἐχώρισεν ἡ παρακοὴ καὶ μακρὰν ἐγγὺς ὄντα καὶ παρόντα νομισθῆναι πεποίηκεν. Εὑρήκαμεν ὃν ἐκζητῆσαι καὶ Δαυὶδ ἐσεμνύνετο· «Ἐν ἡμέρᾳ», φησίν, «θλίψεώς μου τὸν θεὸν ἐξεζήτησα.» Ἀλλὰ καὶ Σοφονίας βοᾷ· «Ζητήσατε τὸν κύριον, πάντες ταπεινοὶ γῆς»· εὑρεθεὶς γὰρ τοὺς ταπεινοὺς ἀνυψοῖ, ἐγείρει τῆς γῆς, ἀπαλλάττει τῆς φθορᾶς, τῶν ὑψηλῶν ὑψηλοτέρους δείκνυσιν.","english":"Behold the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.\" But you, having heard \"lamb,\" proclaim God, you have left the lower things and busy yourself with the higher, you have abandoned the lake and sent the net into the sky; for does this net know how to hunt, does the fishing rod draw? The earth and the heaven hang from your hand. What do you mean: \"We have found the Messiah called Christ\"? For where and how and when did you lose him? One finds what is lost; but how can the one who saves all be lost? How can the one who is present everywhere be found or be spoken of as found? But indeed Andrew knows what he says: We have found whom Adam lost, whom Eve was deprived of, whom the cloud of sin hid from our eyes, whom disobedience separated and made to be thought far away though near and present. We have found him whom David boasted to seek: \"In the day of my distress,\" he says, \"I sought God.\" And Zephaniah cries out: \"Seek the Lord, all you humble of the earth\"; for when found, he raises the humble, lifts them from the earth, delivers them from corruption, and shows them higher than the high.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"ἀμνὸς τοῦ θεοῦ","severity":"info","text":"The phrase 'lamb of God' echoes John 1:29 and 1:36, where John the Baptist designates Jesus as the Lamb of God who takes away the world's sin.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Εὑρήκαμεν τὸν Μεσσίαν τὸν λεγόμενον Χριστόν","severity":"info","text":"This quotation is from John 1:41, where Andrew tells Simon Peter, 'We have found the Messiah' (translated as Christ).","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Ἐν ἡμέρᾳ θλίψεώς μου τὸν θεὸν ἐξεζήτησα","severity":"info","text":"The citation of David is from Psalm 77:2 (LXX): 'In the day of my distress I sought the Lord.'","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Ζητήσατε τὸν κύριον, πάντες ταπεινοὶ γῆς","severity":"info","text":"The quotation from Zephaniah is not verbatim from the LXX; it adapts Zephaniah 2:3, which calls the humble to seek the Lord.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"ἀμνὸν ἀκούσας εὐαγγελίζει θεόν","severity":"info","text":"The homilist plays on the double meaning of 'lamb' (ἀμνός) as both sacrificial animal and title of Christ, leading Andrew to proclaim God rather than a literal lamb.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"This passage shifts from direct address to Andrew (second person) to a series of rhetorical questions, then to a scriptural catena affirming Andrew's proclamation.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The Greek text has minor orthographic variation (e.g., 'εὑρεθῆναι' for 'εὑρεθῆναι'), but the sense is clear."],"confidence":"high","notes":[{"kind":"scripture","severity":"info","ref":"John 1:29","text":"The English carries the scriptural phrase “the lamb of god”, which matches John 1:29. The match is on the English draft; check the Coptic before quoting the verse."}]},{"i":4,"ref":"p4","source":"3 Εὗρεν οὗ τὴν εὕρεσιν ἡμῖν προφήτης ἄριστος Ὡσηὲ διελέ γετο· «Ἐν ἡμέρᾳ θλίψεως αὐτῶν, ὀρθριοῦσι πρός με λέγοντες· πορευθῶμεν καὶ ἐπιστρέψωμεν πρὸς κύριον τὸν θεὸν ἡμῶν, ὅτι αὐτὸς πέπαικεν καὶ ἰάσατο ἡμᾶς· πατάξει καὶ μοτώσει ἡμᾶς· ὑγιώσει ἡμᾶς μετὰ δύο ἡμέρας, καὶ ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τῇ τρίτῃ ἀναστησόμεθα ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ, καὶ διώξομεν τοῦ γνῶναι τὸν κύριον· ὡς ὄρθρον ἕτοιμον εὑρήκαμεν αὐτόν, καὶ ἥξει ἡμῖν ὡς ὑετὸς πρώϊμος καὶ ὄψιμος τῇ γῇ.» Ἐνταῦθά μοι κάλει τὸν Ἰουδαῖον εἰς κρίσιν, εἰς δικαστήριον ἄγαγε τὸν ἀγνώμονα. Ἀνάγνωθι τὸν προφήτην καὶ τὴν βίβλον περίπτυξον. Προφερέσθω κατ' αὐτοῦ τὰ παρ' αὐτοῦ· παρ' αὐτῷ γὰρ γέγραπται, εἰ καὶ παρ' ἐμοὶ πέπρακται. Λέγω τοίνυν τὴν ἑρμηνείαν τῶν προφητικῶν. Σύστηθί πως ἐπὶ σοὶ πῶς καὶ πότε γεγένηται· ὅτι μὲν γὰρ ἐπατάχθητε, καὶ ὑμεῖς ὁμολογεῖτε καὶ ἡμεῖς αἰσθανόμεθα· ἀλλ' οὐ βλέπω σου θεραπείαν, οὐ θεωρῶ τὴν ἴασιν. Τοὐναντίον δὲ τὸ τραῦμα ἐν φλεγμονῇ, ἡ νόσος χαλεπωτέρα γέγονεν, ἡ ἀρρωστία ἀπογνωσ θεῖσα πρὸς θάνατον ἔδραμεν. Ἐπειδὴ τοίνυν οὐκ ἔχεις τῆς προ φητείας παρασχεῖν τὴν ἀπόδειξιν, ἐγὼ καὶ τὸν λόγον τὸν προφη τικὸν ἑρμηνεύσω· τὸν καιρὸν παριστῶ καὶ τὸν τόπον ἐπιδείκνυμι καὶ πᾶσαν καλῶ τὴν κτίσιν, οὐ τοῖς ἐμοῖς ῥήμασιν ἀλλὰ τοῖς θείοις μαρτυρῆσαι δεσποτικοῖς θαύμασι. Πέπαικε τοίνυν ἡμᾶς ὁ θεός, ἡνίκα τοῦ Ἀδὰμ κατεδίκασε θάνατον, ὅτε τὸν ἄρτον ἡμᾶς ἐσθίειν ἐν ἱδρῶτι τοῦ προσώπου κατέκρινεν, ὅτε τὴν γῆν ἡμῖν ἀνατέλλειν ἀκάνθας καὶ τριβόλους ἐκέλευσεν, ὅταν διὰ τοῦ πρωτοπλάστου ὅλον τὸ γένος ἐκ «τοῦ παραδείσου τῆς τρυφῆς» ἐξέβαλεν.","english":"He found that which a most excellent prophet, Hosea, spoke of to us concerning his discovery: \"In the day of their distress, they will rise early and say to me, 'Let us go and return to the Lord our God, for he has struck and healed us; he will strike and bandage us; he will make us healthy after two days, and on the third day we will rise up before him, and we will pursue knowing the Lord; we have found him ready like the dawn, and he will come to us like early and late rain to the earth.'\" Here, call the Jew to judgment, bring the ungrateful one to court. Read the prophet and embrace the book. Let what is from him be brought forth against him; for it is written by him, even if it has been fulfilled by me. I therefore set forth the interpretation of the prophetic words. Show me somehow how and when it happened in your case; for that you were struck, you yourselves confess and we perceive; but I do not see your healing, I do not behold the cure. On the contrary, the wound is inflamed, the disease has become more severe, the sickness, given up as hopeless, has hastened toward death. Since, then, you cannot provide the proof of the prophecy, I will interpret the prophetic word; I present the time and show the place, and I call upon all creation to bear witness, not with my own words but with the divine miracles of the Lord. God has struck us, then, when he condemned Adam to death, when he condemned us to eat bread by the sweat of our brow, when he commanded the earth to bring forth thorns and thistles for us, when through the first-formed he cast the whole race out of \"the paradise of delight.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Ὡσηὲ","severity":"info","text":"The extended quotation attributed to Hosea is not found in the canonical book of Hosea; it appears to be a pastiche of prophetic language, possibly from a lost version or a Christian reworking.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"Ἐνταῦθά μοι κάλει τὸν Ἰουδαῖον εἰς κρίσιν","severity":"info","text":"This adversarial address to a Jew reflects the common homiletic trope of a disputation with Judaism, typical of Greek patristic literature from the 4th–5th centuries.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"Πέπαικε τοίνυν ἡμᾶς ὁ θεός","severity":"info","text":"The homilist shifts from interpreting Hosea to a typological reading of the fall of Adam, linking the prophecy of healing to the human condition after the expulsion from paradise.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"πέπαικεν","severity":"info","text":"The verb πέπαικεν (from παίω, 'strike') is used in the Hosea quotation and then applied by the homilist to God's punitive actions against Adam; the wordplay connects prophecy to salvation history.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"τοῦ παραδείσου τῆς τρυφῆς","severity":"info","text":"The phrase 'paradise of delight' is a standard LXX rendering of the Garden of Eden (Gen 2:8 LXX) and is used here to evoke the expulsion narrative as a type of divine striking.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"ὡς ὄρθρον ἕτοιμον εὑρήκαμεν αὐτόν","severity":"caution","text":"The Hosea quotation contains imagery ('ready like the dawn') that is not paralleled in the Masoretic text; the Greek may reflect a variant tradition or a free homiletic expansion.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The source of the Hosea quotation is uncertain; it may be a conflation of several prophetic passages or a non-canonical text.","The identity of the 'Jew' addressed is rhetorical; it is unclear whether the homilist refers to a real interlocutor or a literary device."],"confidence":"high","notes":[]},{"i":5,"ref":"p5","source":"Ἀλλὰ παίσας ἰάσατο καὶ πατάξας ἐμότωσεν. Πῶς καὶ τίνα τρόπον; Ἄκουε τοῦ Ἠσαΐου λέγοντος· «Παιδεία εἰρήνης ἡμῶν ἐπ' αὐτῷ· τῷ μώλωπι αὐτοῦ ἡμεῖς πάντες ἰάθημεν», ὥστε οὐδὲν τῶν εἰρημένων τῷ προφήτῃ διέψευσται. Δείξει γὰρ τὰ ἐχόμενα μάλιστα· «Πα τάξει ἡμᾶς καὶ ὑγιώσει ἡμᾶς μετὰ δύο ἡμέρας καὶ ἐν τῇ τρίτῃ ἡμέρᾳ ἀναστησόμεθα.» Ἆρα μέμνησαι τὸν καιρὸν ἐν ᾧ τὸν Χριστὸν ἐσταύρωσας, ἐν ᾧ τὴν ζωὴν ἐπὶ ξύλου θεωρῶν κρεμαμένην οὐκ ἐπίστευσας; Ἐπιγινώσκεις τὸ παρὰ σοῦ πραχθὲν δρᾶμα καὶ τὰ τοῦ δράματος θαύματα, ὅτε γυμνὸς ἐπὶ τοῦ σταυροῦ ὁ Χριστὸς ὡς ἐπὶ γάμον ἀνήγετο. Ἁμαρτίαν γὰρ οὐκ ἔχων, ἱμάτιον οὐκ ἔχρῃζεν· ἄμωμος ἦν καὶ λανθάνειν οὐκ ὤφειλεν· οὐδὲν ἦν ἄσχημον αὐτῷ· αὐτὸς γὰρ τὰ εὐσχήμονα δείκνυσιν. Ἡ κτίσις δ' ὅμως τοῦ δεσποτικοῦ κάλλους τὰς ἀστραπὰς οὐκ ἔφερεν, ἀλλὰ φῶς ἐνίκα τὸ φῶς, ἥλιος ἡλίῳ παρεχώρει, ὁ αἰσθητὸς τῷ νοητῷ, ὁ τρέχων τῷ πανταχοῦ ὄντι, ὁ ἐν τόπῳ τῷ ὑπὲρ τόπον, ὁ δύνων τῷ μὴ δύνοντι, ὁ τὴν νύκτα κινῶν τῷ θεμένῳ τὰ τῆς νυκτὸς καὶ τῆς ἡμέρας ὅρια. Ἦν δὲ τότε νύξ· τὸ γὰρ σκότος πᾶσαν κατέσχε τὴν γῆν, ἀλλ' ἡμέρα πάλιν ἀπὸ ἐνάτης ὥρας μέχρι ἑσπέρας ἔδραμεν, καὶ πάλιν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ νὺξ κατὰ τὸν νόμον τὸν ἐπ' αὐτῆς ἠκολούθησεν, καὶ πάλιν ἡμέρα τὴν νύκτα διαδέχεται. Ὁ δὲ ἡμερῶν δύο δρόμος κατὰ τάξιν γεγένηται, καὶ πέρας ἔσχεν ὁ τῆς προφητείας ὅρος· «Ὑγιώσει ἡμᾶς μετὰ δύο ἡμέρας.»","english":"But having struck, he healed, and having wounded, he bandaged. How and in what manner? Listen to Isaiah saying: \"The discipline of our peace is upon him; by his wound we were all healed,\" so that none of the things spoken by the prophet have been falsified. For what follows will show this most clearly: \"He will strike us and heal us after two days, and on the third day we shall arise.\" Do you then remember the time when you crucified Christ, when you beheld life hanging on a tree and did not believe? Do you recognize the drama performed by you and the wonders of that drama, when Christ, naked on the cross, was led forth as to a wedding? For having no sin, he had no need of a garment; he was blameless and ought not to be hidden; nothing was unseemly for him, for he himself reveals what is seemly. Yet creation could not bear the flashes of the Lord's beauty, but light was overcome by light, sun gave way to sun, the sensible to the intelligible, the one that runs to the one that is everywhere, the one in place to the one beyond place, the one that sets to the one that never sets, the one that moves the night to the one that established the boundaries of night and day. It was night then, for darkness covered the whole earth, but day again ran from the ninth hour until evening, and again night followed day according to its own law, and again day succeeds night. The course of two days has taken place in order, and the limit of the prophecy has been fulfilled: \"He will heal us after two days.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Παιδεία εἰρήνης ἡμῶν ἐπ' αὐτῷ· τῷ μώλωπι αὐτοῦ ἡμεῖς πάντες ἰάθημεν","severity":"info","text":"A composite or paraphrased citation: the first part echoes Isaiah 26:3 LXX (παιδείαν εἰρήνης), the second part is not verbatim in Isaiah but may reflect a patristic conflation with Isaiah 53:5 or a lost variant.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Πα τάξει ἡμᾶς καὶ ὑγιώσει ἡμᾶς μετὰ δύο ἡμέρας καὶ ἐν τῇ τρίτῃ ἡμέρᾳ ἀναστησόμεθα","severity":"info","text":"A paraphrase of Hosea 6:2 LXX (μετὰ δύο ἡμέρας ... τῇ τρίτῃ ἀναστησόμεθα), adapted to the homily's context of Christ's crucifixion and resurrection.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"Ἐπιγινώσκεις τὸ παρὰ σοῦ πραχθὲν δρᾶμα","severity":"info","text":"The homilist addresses the Jewish audience directly, accusing them of the 'drama' of the crucifixion. This reflects a common polemical trope in early Christian homiletics, not historical fact.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"Ἡ κτίσις δ' ὅμως τοῦ δεσποτικοῦ κάλλους τὰς ἀστραπὰς οὐκ ἔφερεν","severity":"info","text":"The description of creation unable to bear Christ's beauty echoes the apocryphal tradition of a supernatural light at the crucifixion, found in the Gospel of Nicodemus and patristic sources.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"Ἦν δὲ τότε νύξ· ... καὶ πάλιν ἡμέρα τὴν νύκτα διαδέχεται","severity":"info","text":"The homilist narrates a sequence of night and day from the ninth hour to evening, then a second night and day, to align the two days of Hosea's prophecy with the time from crucifixion to resurrection.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"Πα τάξει","severity":"caution","text":"The Greek text has a space in 'Πα τάξει' (likely a scribal or editorial artifact for 'πατάξει'), but the sense is clear from context and the Hosea parallel.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The citation of Isaiah is not verbatim from the LXX; the source of 'τῷ μώλωπι αὐτοῦ ἡμεῖς πάντες ἰάθημεν' is uncertain, possibly a patristic paraphrase or a lost variant.","The homilist's direct address to 'you' (the Jewish audience) is a rhetorical device; the historical setting of the homily is unclear."],"confidence":"high","notes":[]},{"i":6,"ref":"p6","source":"5 Πέρας τότε καὶ τὸ ἑξῆς ἐλάμβανεν· «Ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τῇ τρί τῃ», φησίν, «ἀναστησόμεθα.» Ἀνέστη γὰρ ὁ Χριστὸς καὶ ἡμεῖς συνανέστημεν. Ἀνῆλθεν ἐκ τῶν νεκρῶν ὁ τῶν νεκρῶν ἐλευθερωτὴς καὶ τὸ γένος ἀνεβίου τὸ ἡμέτερον, ἐπειδὴ δὲ\n\nκαθ' ἅ φη σιν ὁ θεσπέσιος Παῦλος· «Ὥσπερ ἐν τῷ Ἀδὰμ πάντες ἀποθνῄσκουσιν, οὕτως ἐν τῷ Χριστῷ πάντες ζωοποιηθήσονται.» Μάρ τυς δὲ ὁ τάφος οὗτος, ἡ τῶν ζώντων χαρά, ἡ τῶν νεκρῶν παρά κλησις. Μάρτυς ὁ λίθος οὗτος ὁ κυλισθεὶς καὶ κυλίσας ὅλα τὰ τῶν δαιμόνων εἴδωλα, οὐ μόνον δὲ κυλίσας, ἀλλὰ καὶ συντρίψας καὶ λεπτύνας καὶ τῷ πτύῳ λικμήσας τοῦ σταυροῦ καὶ ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς «ἐκφυσήσας ὥσπερ χοῦν ἀφ' ἅλωνος καὶ ὥσπερ ἀπὸ καπνοδόχης ἀτμίδα» καὶ τῇ ῥιπῇ καὶ τῷ ῥοίζῳ τοῦ πνεύματος. Μάρτυρες αἱ γυναῖκες αὐταὶ ἀντὶ τῶν ποτε γυναικῶν ἡμέρας ἑκάστης καὶ νυκτὸς αἰσθητὰ καὶ νοητὰ μύρα τῷ νυμφίῳ εἰσφέρουσαι. Μάρτυς ὁ λευχείμων ἱερεὺς ὁ τῆς ἐκκλησίας ἄγγελος βοῶν πρὸς αὐτάς· «Μὴ φοβεῖσθε· οἶδα γὰρ ὅτι Ἰησοῦν τὸν Ναζαρηνὸν τὸν ἐσταυ ρωμένον ζητεῖτε.» Ἀλλὰ τὴν ὥραν ἐπιζητεῖς; Φησὶ γάρ· «ὡς ὄρθρον ἕτοιμον εὑρήσομεν αὐτόν.» Λουκᾶς σοι καὶ τοῦτο ἀπαγγεῖλαι δυνήσεται· «Τῇ δὲ μιᾷ τῶν σαββάτων ὄρθρου βα θέως ἦλθον ἐπὶ τὸ μνῆμα, φέρουσαι ἃ ἡτοίμασαν ἀρώματα. Εὗρον δὲ τὸν λίθον ἀποκεκυλισμένον ἐκ τῆς θύρας τοῦ μνημείου· εἰσελθοῦσαι δὲ οὐχ εὗρον τὸ σῶμα τοῦ κυρίου Ἰησοῦ. Καὶ ἐγένετο ἐν τῷ διαπορεῖσθαι αὐτὰς περὶ τούτου καὶ ἰδοὺ δύο ἄνδρες ἐπέστη σαν αὐταῖς ἐν ἐσθήσεσιν ἀστραπτούσαις. Ἐμφόβων δὲ γενομέ νων αὐτῶν καὶ κλινουσῶν τὰ πρόσωπα εἰς τὴν γῆν, εἶπον πρὸς αὐτάς·","english":"Then the following also took effect: \"On the third day,\" he says, \"we shall arise.\" For Christ arose, and we arose with him. The liberator of the dead ascended from the dead, and our race revived, since, as the divine Paul says: \"Just as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.\" Witness is this tomb, the joy of the living, the consolation of the dead. Witness is this stone, which was rolled and rolled away all the idols of the demons, and not only rolled away, but also crushed, ground fine, and winnowed with the winnowing fan of the cross, and \"blown away from the earth like chaff from a threshing floor and like vapor from a chimney\" by the rush and roar of the Spirit. Witnesses are these women themselves, who, instead of the women of old, bring sensible and intelligible myrrh to the bridegroom each day and night. Witness is the white-robed priest, the angel of the church, crying out to them: \"Do not be afraid; for I know that you seek Jesus the Nazarene, the crucified one.\" But do you seek the hour? For he says: \"We shall find him ready at dawn.\" Luke will be able to announce this to you as well: \"On the first day of the week, at deep dawn, they came to the tomb, bringing the spices they had prepared. And they found the stone rolled away from the door of the tomb; and entering, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. And while they were perplexed about this, behold, two men stood before them in flashing garments. And when they became frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, they said to them:","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τῇ τρίτῃ ... ἀναστησόμεθα","severity":"info","text":"The phrase 'On the third day we shall arise' echoes Isaiah's prophecy of resurrection, likely from a lost or conflated source; the preceding passage attributes similar words to Isaiah.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Ὥσπερ ἐν τῷ Ἀδὰμ πάντες ἀποθνῄσκουσιν, οὕτως ἐν τῷ Χριστῷ πάντες ζωοποιηθήσονται","severity":"info","text":"This Pauline citation is not verbatim from the canonical epistles; it paraphrases the Adam-Christ typology found in 1 Corinthians 15:22 and Romans 5:12-21.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Τῇ δὲ μιᾷ τῶν σαββάτων ὄρθρου βαθέως ἦλθον ἐπὶ τὸ μνῆμα","severity":"info","text":"This passage closely follows Luke 24:1-4, describing the women at the tomb on Easter morning; the detail of 'two men in flashing garments' is an apocryphal expansion not in the canonical Gospels.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"ὁ λευχείμων ἱερεὺς ὁ τῆς ἐκκλησίας ἄγγελος","severity":"info","text":"The 'white-robed priest, the angel of the church' likely refers to a liturgical figure, possibly the deacon or bishop, who announces the resurrection to the myrrh-bearing women, blending Gospel narrative with contemporary church practice.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"ἐκφυσήσας ὥσπερ χοῦν ἀφ' ἅλωνος καὶ ὥσπερ ἀπὸ καπνοδόχης ἀτμίδα","severity":"info","text":"The vivid imagery of winnowing chaff and chimney smoke is drawn from Old Testament metaphors (e.g., Hosea 13:3, Psalm 18:10 LXX) and reflects a homiletic tradition of demonic idols being scattered by the Spirit.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"Μάρτυς ... Μάρτυς ... Μάρτυρες ... Μάρτυς","severity":"info","text":"The repeated anaphora of 'Witness is...' structures this passage as a rhetorical accumulation of proofs for the resurrection, moving from the tomb and stone to the women and priest, culminating in the scriptural citation from Luke.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The identity of the 'two men in flashing garments' is unclear; they may be angels or a conflation of the angel at the tomb in John 20:12 with the two disciples in Luke 24:4.","The phrase 'the white-robed priest, the angel of the church' could be a literal angel or a symbolic title for a bishop; the text does not resolve this."],"confidence":"high","notes":[]},{"i":7,"ref":"p7","source":"Τί ζητεῖτε τὸν ζῶντα μετὰ τῶν νεκρῶν;\"3 Τί λογί ζεσθε περὶ τῆς ζωῆς τὰ τῆς ζωῆς ἀλλότρια; Ὁ παρ' ὑμῶν ὧδε ζητούμενος ἐν οὐρανοῖς καθέζεται, ὁ ἐνταῦθα ψηλαφώμενος ἐν τοῖς κόλποις τοῦ Πατρὸς ἀναπαύεται, ὁ γενόμενος νεκρὸς ἵνα νεκρῶν καὶ ζώντων κυριεύσῃ τὴν ζωὴν οὐ κατέλιπεν· αὐτὸς γὰρ πᾶσι δανείζει τὴν ζωήν, ἐξ αὐτοῦ πᾶσα ἡ φύσις ἐμπνεῖται, ἐν αὐτῷ κινεῖται τὰ κινούμενα, τὰ συνεστῶτα συνίσταται, ἐνερ γεῖ τὰ ἐνεργούμενα.» Ἐκεῖθεν αἱ γυναῖκες ἐξελθοῦσαι τῷ Ἰησοῦ συνήντησαν, καὶ τὸν ὄρθρον εἶδον ὡς ὄρθρον, καὶ εἶπον πρὸς αὐ τὸν ὅπερ ὁ Δαυὶδ ἐν προφητείαις ἔψαλλεν· «Ὅτι παρὰ σοὶ πηγὴ ζωῆς, ἐν τῷ φωτί σου ὀψόμεθα φῶς.» Εἰ δὲ λέγεις· «Αἱ μὲν γυ ναῖκες εὗρον, οὐχ εὗρον δὲ οἱ ἀπόστολοι», καὶ «Πῶς ἐστι κέρδος κοινόν; Πῶς τὸ εὑρεθὲν ὅλης τῆς φύσεως γίνεται σωτηρία;» περιττὸν ζητεῖς, μάτην ἐγκαλεῖς. Εὗρον γὰρ αἱ γυναῖκες ὅπερ διὰ τῆς Εὔας ἀπώλεσαν πρότερον. Εὗρεν τὸ κέρδος ἡ παρασχοῦσα τῆς ζημίας τὴν ὑπόθεσιν. Πλὴν ἀνάγνωθι τῆς προφητείας τὰ λεί ποντα· «Ὡς ὄρθρον ἕτοιμον εὑρήσομεν αὐτόν, καὶ ἥξει ἡμῖν ὡς ὑετὸς πρώϊμος καὶ ὄψιμος τῇ γῇ.» Ταῦτα σαφῶς κατὰ λέξιν πεπλήρωται. Οὐ χρῄζει θεωρίας ὁ λόγος, ἀλληγορεῖν οὐ δεόμεθα τοῦ προφήτου τὴν ἔννοιαν· «Ἥξει ἡμῖν ὡς ὑετὸς πρώϊμος καὶ ὄψιμος τῇ γῇ.» Ὅρα τοίνυν αὐτὸν πρώϊμον ταῖς γυναιξίν, ὄψιμον δὲ τοῖς ἀποστόλοις φαινόμενον· πρωῒ μὲν γὰρ ἐνταῦθα ταῖς γυναιξὶν «Χαίρετε», ὀψὲ δὲ ἐν τῇ Σιὼν «Εἰρήνην» τοῖς μαθηταῖς προσεφώνησεν·","english":"Why do you seek the living among the dead? Why do you reason about life things alien to life? He whom you seek here sits in the heavens; he whom you handle here reposes in the bosom of the Father; he who became dead that he might rule over the dead and the living did not abandon life; for he himself lends life to all, from him every nature is inspired, in him the moving are moved, the stable are established, the active act.\" From there the women, having gone out, met Jesus, and saw the dawn as dawn, and said to him what David sang in prophecies: \"That with you is the fountain of life, in your light we shall see light.\" But if you say, \"The women found, but the apostles did not find,\" and \"How is this a common gain? How does what was found become the salvation of the whole nature?\" you seek superfluously, you accuse in vain. For the women found what through Eve they had previously lost. The one who provided the occasion of the loss found the gain. But read the remaining part of the prophecy: \"As the morning dawn we shall find him ready, and he will come to us as early and late rain to the earth.\" These things have been clearly fulfilled literally. The word does not need theory; we do not need to allegorize the meaning of the prophet: \"He will come to us as early and late rain to the earth.\" See him, then, appearing as early rain to the women, and as late rain to the apostles; for early here he greeted the women with \"Rejoice,\" and late in Zion he addressed the disciples with \"Peace.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Τί ζητεῖτε τὸν ζῶντα μετὰ τῶν νεκρῶν","severity":"info","text":"This question echoes the angelic rebuke at the tomb in John 20:15, though the exact phrasing is not a direct quotation. Hesychius adapts it to contrast the living Christ with the dead.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"παρὰ σοὶ πηγὴ ζωῆς, ἐν τῷ φωτί σου ὀψόμεθα φῶς","severity":"info","text":"Hesychius attributes this to David's prophecies; it is not a direct Psalm quotation but a conflation of imagery from Psalms 36:10 and 36:9 (LXX), where God is the source of life and light.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Ὡς ὄρθρον ἕτοιμον εὑρήσομεν αὐτόν, καὶ ἥξει ἡμῖν ὡς ὑετὸς πρώϊμος καὶ ὄψιμος τῇ γῇ","severity":"info","text":"This is a composite citation blending Hosea 6:3 (LXX: 'as morning dawn we shall find him') and Joel 2:23 (LXX: 'early and late rain'). Hesychius reads it as literal prophecy of the resurrection appearances.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"Εὗρον γὰρ αἱ γυναῖκες ὅπερ διὰ τῆς Εὔας ἀπώλεσαν πρότερον","severity":"info","text":"Hesychius draws a typological parallel: the women at the tomb (Mary Magdalene and others) recover what Eve lost. This Eve-Mary typology is common in Greek patristic literature (e.g., Irenaeus, John Chrysostom).","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"πρωῒ μὲν γὰρ ἐνταῦθα ταῖς γυναιξὶν «Χαίρετε», ὀψὲ δὲ ἐν τῇ Σιὼν «Εἰρήνην» τοῖς μαθηταῖς προσεφώνησεν","severity":"info","text":"Hesychius structures the resurrection appearances as a diptych: early to the women (with 'Rejoice') and late to the apostles in Zion (with 'Peace'), mirroring the early/late rain of the prophecy.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"Οὐ χρῄζει θεωρίας ὁ λόγος, ἀλληγορεῖν οὐ δεόμεθα","severity":"caution","text":"Hesychius insists on literal fulfillment, but the composite citation and typological reading (Eve-Mary) show he is not strictly literal. The claim 'no allegory needed' is rhetorical; he uses typology throughout.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The phrase 'παρὰ σοὶ πηγὴ ζωῆς' is not a verbatim Psalm verse; it may be a free adaptation or a lost liturgical formula. The identity of 'the women' is unspecified—likely Mary Magdalene and companions, but not named here."],"confidence":"high","notes":[]},{"i":8,"ref":"p8","source":"«Χαίρετε» ταῖς γυναιξὶν ἵνα λύσῃ τῆς λύπης τὴν ἀπόφασιν, «Εἰρήνην» τοῖς μαθηταῖς, ἵνα καταλύσῃ τὴν ἔχθραν ἣν ὁ δράκων ἐφύτευσεν. Διὸ πρὸς αὐτοὺς μετὰ ταύτης τῆς διαστολῆς ἔλεγεν· «Εἰρήνη ὑμῖν· τῷ γὰρ διαβόλῳ ὁ πό λεμος, ἡ πρὸς ἐκεῖνον ἔχθρα μένει· δεῖ γὰρ αὐτοῦ συντριβῆναι τὸ κέρας, δεῖ αὐτοῦ τὸν ἰὸν ἐκχυθῆναι, δεῖ πατηθῆναι αὐτοῦ τὸ κέντρον. Νῦν ὅπλα χαλκεύσω οἷς κατ' αὐτοῦ συγκροτηθήσεται πόλεμος.» 6 Οὐ μάτην τοίνυν ὁ Ἀνδρέας τῷ Πέτρῳ ἀπήγγειλεν· «Εὑ ρήκαμεν τὸν Μεσσίαν τὸν λεγόμενον Χριστόν», ἐπειδὴ καὶ ὁ θεὸς τοιαῦτα διὰ τῆς Ἠσαΐου προφητείας ἐφθέγγετο· «Ἐὰν ἐπιζητήσῃς, ζήτει καὶ παρ' ἐμοὶ οἴκει.» Ὅθεν τὸν Χριστὸν ὁ Ἀνδρέας ἐπερωτᾶν ἐτόλμησεν· «Οἶδα γὰρ ὡς οἰκίαν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς οὐκ ἔχεις, οὐκ οἰκοδομεῖς ἐν τῇ φθορᾷ, οὐ σκηνοποιεῖς ἐν πλίνθῳ. Ποῦ μένεις;\"3 ἵνα θυρωρὸς τῆς αὐλῆς τῆς δεσποτικῆς γένωμαι. Ἐξελεξάμην γὰρ παραριπτεῖσθαι ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ τοῦ θεοῦ μου μᾶλλον ἢ οἰκεῖν με ἐν σκηνώμασιν ἁμαρτωλῶν.\"3 Ποῦ μένεις;\"3 Ἐὰν μάθω, τῆς θύρας οὐκ ἀφίσταμαι.» Ἀλλ' αὕτη μὲν ἡ τῆς ἐκκλησίας νῦν","english":"Rejoice to the women, that he might dissolve the sentence of grief; Peace to the disciples, that he might break the enmity which the serpent planted. Therefore he spoke to them with this distinction: Peace to you; for with the devil there is war, enmity toward him remains; for his horn must be shattered, his venom must be poured out, his sting must be trampled. Now I shall forge weapons with which war shall be waged against him. Not in vain, then, did Andrew announce to Peter: We have found the Messiah called Christ, since God also spoke such things through the prophecy of Isaiah: If you seek, seek and dwell with me. Hence Andrew dared to question Christ: For I know that you have no house on earth, you do not build in corruption, you do not pitch a tent in brick. Where do you dwell? that I may become doorkeeper of the master's court. For I have chosen to be cast aside in the house of my God rather than to dwell in the tents of sinners. Where do you dwell? If I learn, I will not leave the door. But this is now the church's","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Εἰρήνη ὑμῖν","severity":"info","text":"The greeting 'Peace to you' echoes the liturgical greeting of the risen Christ in John 20:19, 21, 26, a standard element in early Christian paschal homilies.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Εὑρήκαμεν τὸν Μεσσίαν τὸν λεγόμενον Χριστόν","severity":"info","text":"Andrew's announcement to Peter quotes John 1:41, where Andrew says, 'We have found the Messiah' (transliterated from Hebrew/Aramaic) and identifies him as Christ.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Ἐὰν ἐπιζητήσῃς, ζήτει καὶ παρ' ἐμοὶ οἴκει","severity":"info","text":"This citation of Isaiah is not verbatim from the Septuagint; it may be a free adaptation of Isa 55:6 or a lost variant, possibly from a testimonia collection.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"δράκων","severity":"info","text":"The 'serpent' (δράκων) here symbolizes the devil, a common patristic trope derived from Genesis 3 and Revelation 12:9, used to personify enmity against Christ.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"Ποῦ μένεις","severity":"info","text":"The repeated question 'Where do you dwell?' (Ποῦ μένεις) functions as a rhetorical refrain, emphasizing Andrew's desire for spiritual proximity to Christ over physical shelter.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"θυρωρὸς","severity":"info","text":"The term 'doorkeeper' (θυρωρὸς) is a lowly church office (cf. Didascalia 2.26), here used metaphorically for Andrew's humility and role as gatekeeper to the divine court.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The Isaiah citation is not exact; it may be a paraphrase or a variant from a lost source. The reading taken is that it is a free adaptation of Isa 55:6 or a testimonia echo."],"confidence":"high","notes":[]},{"i":9,"ref":"p9","source":"ἐκ τῶν εὐαγγελίων παρατεθεῖσα τρά πεζα· ἐγὼ δὲ αὐτῆς τὰ ὄψα ὡς οἰκέτης μόνον παρέθηκα, διόπερ ἐφ' ἑτέραν, εἴπερ ὑμῖν δοκεῖ, μεταβήσομαι τράπεζαν. Ἀνδρέαν ἡ κλῆσις στεφανοῖ· δείκνυσι τῷ στρατιώτῃ τὴν ἐκλογήν. Παρέ στησεν τοῦ ἀμπελουργοῦ τὴν ἀξίαν ἡ μίσθωσις ἣν οὕτως ἡμῖν ὁ Μαθθαῖος παρέθετο· «Ἀπὸ τότε ὁ Ἰησοῦς ἤρξατο κηρύττειν καὶ λέγειν· Μετανοεῖτε· ἤγγικεν γὰρ ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν.» «Ἀπὸ τότε.» Πότε; –Ἀφ' οὗ τὸν Ἰορδάνην ἡγίασεν καὶ τοῦβαπτίσματος τὴν δωρεὰν ἐφύτευσεν καὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν τῶν δρακόν των συνέτριψεν ἐν τοῖς ὕδασιν καὶ τοῦ πνεύματος τὴν δωρεὰν ἐξ οὐρανοῦ κατήγαγεν, ἤνοιξεν ὁδὸν ζωῆς, τῆς σωτηρίας τὴν πύ λην ἀνεπέτασεν· «Ἀπὸ τότε κηρύττειν ἤρξατο καὶ λέγειν· Μετα νοεῖτε· ἤγγικεν γὰρ ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν.» Ἦλθεν γὰρ ὁ δανειστὴς ὁ πᾶσιν ἀπαλείφων τὰ ἐγκλήματα· ὁ ἄφθονος βασιλεὺς ἐπεδήμησεν· πάρεστιν ὁ δικαστὴς τῆς φυλακῆς τοὺς ὑπευθύνους ἐλευθερῶν, ὁ λύων τοὺς κλοιούς, ὁ ἀπαλείφων πᾶσιν ἐγ κλήματα, «ὁ καμμύων τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς αὐτοῦ ἵνα μὴ ἴδῃ ἀδικίαν, ὁ βαρύνων τὰ ὦτα αὐτοῦ ἵνα μὴ ἀκούσῃ κρίσιν αἵματος.» «Με τανοεῖτε»· πλύνατε τῷ λόγῳ τὰς πράξεις, γλώσσῃ τὸ στόμα ἀποσμήξατε, εὐχῇ τὸν βίον καθάρατε, προσενέγκατε θυσίαν ἥτις πολλῶν ἄρχει. «Μετανοεῖτε»· οὐκοῦν ὁ μετανοῶν οὐ μόνον τῶν δεινῶν ἀπαλλάττεται ἀλλὰ καὶ τῶν ἀγαθῶν κληρονομίαν δέχεται, οὐ μόνον κακίας ἐλεύθερος ἀλλὰ καὶ γεωργὸς δικαιοσύ νης γίνεται. «Μετανοεῖτε·","english":"A table was set from the Gospels; I, however, have only set out its dishes as a servant. Therefore, if it seems good to you, I will move to another table. The name Andrew crowns him; it shows the soldier his election. The worth of the vine-dresser was demonstrated by the wage which Matthew thus set before us: \"From that time Jesus began to preach and say: Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.\" \"From that time.\" When?—From the time he sanctified the Jordan and planted the gift of baptism and crushed the head of the dragons in the waters and brought down the gift of the Spirit from heaven, he opened a way of life, he threw open the gate of salvation: \"From that time he began to preach and say: Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.\" For the creditor who cancels all charges for everyone came; the ungrudging king arrived; the judge is present, freeing the guilty from prison, the one who loosens the fetters, the one who cancels all charges for everyone, \"the one who closes his eyes so as not to see injustice, the one who weighs down his ears so as not to hear a judgment of blood.\" \"Repent\": wash your deeds with word, wipe your mouth with tongue, cleanse your life with prayer, offer a sacrifice which rules over many. \"Repent\": therefore the one who repents is not only freed from evils but also receives an inheritance of goods, not only is free from vice but also becomes a farmer of righteousness. \"Repent\":","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"ἐκ τῶν εὐαγγελίων παρατεθεῖσα τράπεζα","severity":"info","text":"The homilist introduces a new section with the metaphor of a table set from the Gospels, signaling a shift from the preceding narrative to a scriptural exposition.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Ἀπὸ τότε ὁ Ἰησοῦς ἤρξατο κηρύττειν καὶ λέγειν· Μετανοεῖτε· ἤγγικεν γὰρ ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν","severity":"info","text":"This is a paraphrase of Matthew 4:17, where Jesus begins to preach repentance and the coming kingdom. The homilist adapts the verse to emphasize the timing after the baptism.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"Ἀνδρέαν ἡ κλῆσις στεφανοῖ","severity":"info","text":"The name Andrew (Ἀνδρέαν) is interpreted as 'manly' or 'courageous,' and the homilist plays on the etymology to suggest that the name itself crowns or honors him, linking to the soldier's election.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"τοῦβαπτίσματος τὴν δωρεὰν ἐφύτευσεν","severity":"info","text":"The homilist describes baptism as a 'gift' planted by Christ in the Jordan, reflecting a common patristic theme that baptism is a divine planting that purifies and initiates salvation.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"ὁ καμμύων τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς αὐτοῦ ἵνα μὴ ἴδῃ ἀδικίαν, ὁ βαρύνων τὰ ὦτα αὐτοῦ ἵνα μὴ ἀκούσῃ κρίσιν αἵματος","severity":"info","text":"This phrase is not a direct biblical quotation but echoes the imagery of a merciful judge, possibly drawing on Psalm 58 or similar traditions of divine leniency.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"τρά πεζα·","severity":"caution","text":"The Greek text has a space in 'τρά πεζα' (table), likely a scribal or editorial artifact; it should be read as 'τράπεζα'.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The phrase 'Ἀπὸ τότε' is ambiguous: it could refer to the time of Jesus' baptism or to the beginning of his public ministry; the homilist interprets it as the former.","The identity of the 'vine-dresser' (ἀμπελουργοῦ) is unclear; it may refer to Christ or to a figure in a parable, but the homilist does not specify."],"confidence":"high","notes":[]},{"i":10,"ref":"p10","source":"ἤγγικεν γὰρ ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρα νῶν.» Οἱ δυνατοὶ βιάσασθε, οἱ ἀσθενεῖς δυναμώθητε, οἱ χωλοὶ τρέχετε καὶ οἱ τρέχοντες σπεύσατε καὶ οἱ σπεύδοντες ἑαυτοῖς μὴ θαρρήσητε, ἀλλὰ τῷ θεῷ τῷ τὸν δρόμον ἰθύνοντι· «Οὐ γὰρ τοῦ θέλοντος οὐδὲ τοῦ τρέχοντος ἀλλὰ τοῦ ἐλεοῦντος θεοῦ.» «Μετανοεῖτε»· οὐκ ἔστι γὰρ κακία νικῶσα τὴν μετάνοιαν, οὐκ ἔστιν ἰὸς ὅστις δύναται τούτου τοῦ μέλιτος ἀποσβέσαι τὴν δύνα μιν· πᾶσιν ὁ διάβολος παλαίει καὶ πᾶσιν ἀνθίσταται καὶ πᾶσιν μάχεται· πρὸς μόνην οὐ τολμᾷ παλαῖσαι τὴν μετάνοιαν· αὐτὴ γὰρ αὐτοῦ ἐκ τῶν φαρύγγων ἐκβάλλει τὸ πρόβατον, ἐξ αὐτῆς ἀπο σπᾷ τῆς χειρὸς τοῦ τυράννου τὸν αἰχμάλωτον. «Καὶ περιπατῶν ὁ Ἰησοῦς εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν τῆς Γαλιλαίας εἶδεν δύο ἀδελφούς, Σίμωνα τὸν καλούμενον Πέτρον καὶ Ἀνδρέαν τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ.» Πολλοὺς ἰδὼν παρεῖδεν, ἐπειδὴ τῶν δεσποτικῶν ὀφθαλμῶν ἦσαν ἀνάξιοι. «Εἶδεν δύο ἀδελφούς», οὐ σώματι μόνον ἀλλὰ καὶ τὴν ψυχήν, τὴν φύσιν καὶ τὴν χάριν, τὴν πολιτείαν καὶ τὴν συγγένειαν. «Εἶδεν δύο ἀδελφούς, Σίμωνα τὸν καλούμενον Πέτρον», οὐ τὸν κληθησόμενον· περὶ γὰρ τῆς κλήσεως ἠξιωμένος ἐτύγχανεν. Ἤδει γὰρ ὅτι ὁ Χριστὸς πρὸς αὐτὸν εἰρηκὼς ἦν· «Σὺ εἶ Σίμων, σὺ κληθήσῃ Κηφᾶς ὁ λεγόμε νος Πέτρος.» Ἰδοὺ πρὸ τῆς ὁμολογίας τὸν μισθὸν ἔχεις καὶ πρὶν ἐργάσῃ τὸν ἀμπελῶνα τὸ δηνάριον ἔλαβες, πρὶν ἀνάψῃς τὸν βωμὸν τὴν θυσίαν προσδέδεξαι, πρὶν κηρύξῃς ἐστεφανώθης, πρὶν εὐαγγελίσῃ τὸ τῆς θεολογίας σοι βραβεῖον ὑπήντησεν. Αἴτιος δὲ αὐτοῦ τούτου ὁ Ἀνδρέας ἐγένετο καὶ τούτου χάριν ὁ Μαθθαῖος προσέθηκεν·","english":"For the kingdom of heaven has drawn near.\" Let the strong exert themselves, the weak be strengthened, the lame run, and those who run hasten, and those who hasten not be confident in themselves, but in God who directs the course: \"For it is not of the one who wills nor of the one who runs, but of the merciful God.\" \"Repent\": for there is no evil that conquers repentance, there is no venom that can extinguish the power of this honey. The devil wrestles with all, resists all, and fights all; only against repentance does he not dare to wrestle, for it casts the sheep out of his throat, it snatches the captive from the very hand of the tyrant. \"And as Jesus walked by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and Andrew his brother.\" He saw many but passed them by, because they were unworthy of the Master's eyes. \"He saw two brothers,\" not only in body but also in soul, in nature and in grace, in way of life and in kinship. \"He saw two brothers, Simon called Peter,\" not who would be called; for he had already been deemed worthy of the name. For he knew that Christ had said to him: \"You are Simon; you will be called Cephas, who is called Peter.\" Behold, before the confession you have the reward, and before you work the vineyard you have received the denarius, before you kindle the altar you have accepted the sacrifice, before you preach you have been crowned, before you proclaim the gospel the prize of theology has met you. And Andrew was the cause of this, and for this reason Matthew added:","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Μετανοεῖτε","severity":"info","text":"The Greek imperative 'Μετανοεῖτε' ('Repent') echoes the opening of Jesus' public ministry in Matthew 4:17, though the exact phrasing is not a direct quotation. The homilist uses it as a thematic call.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Καὶ περιπατῶν ὁ Ἰησοῦς εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν τῆς Γαλιλαίας εἶδεν δύο ἀδελφούς","severity":"info","text":"This narrative unit adapts the call of Peter and Andrew from Matthew 4:18, but the homilist expands the scene with theological commentary on worthiness and predestination.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"τὸν καλούμενον Πέτρον","severity":"info","text":"The phrase 'τὸν καλούμενον Πέτρον' ('called Peter') is interpreted by Hesychius as indicating a name already given, not future. This reading emphasizes Andrew's role in Peter's prior naming.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"πρὶν ἐργάσῃ τὸν ἀμπελῶνα τὸ δηνάριον ἔλαβες","severity":"info","text":"The image of receiving a denarius before working the vineyard alludes to the parable of the laborers in the vineyard (Matthew 20:1-16) but inverts the sequence to stress grace before labor.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"Αἴτιος δὲ αὐτοῦ τούτου ὁ Ἀνδρέας ἐγένετο","severity":"info","text":"This sentence marks a structural pivot: the homilist transitions from general exhortation to the specific narrative of Andrew as the cause of Peter's election, linking the passage to the homily's theme.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"πρὶν εὐαγγελίσῃ τὸ τῆς θεολογίας σοι βραβεῖον ὑπήντησεν","severity":"info","text":"The phrase 'prize of theology' reflects a later theological emphasis on Peter's doctrinal authority, possibly influenced by fourth-century debates on apostolic primacy.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The Greek text at the start ('ἤγγικεν γὰρ ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρα νῶν.') is a fragment; the preceding clause is lost. The reading assumes it continues the call to repentance from the previous passage.","The phrase 'πρὶν εὐαγγελίσῃ' could be read as 'before you proclaim the gospel' or 'before you evangelize'; the translation takes the former as more natural."],"confidence":"high","notes":[]},{"i":11,"ref":"p11","source":"«Καὶ Ἀνδρέαν τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ», καίτοι ἦν ἅπαξ εἰρηκώς· «Εἶδεν δύο ἀδελφούς», ἀλλ' ὅμως ἰδοὺ νῦν ἀνα λαμβάνει καὶ δεύτερον, εὐεργέτην κηρύξαι τὸν Ἀνδρέαν τοῦ Πέτρου βουλόμενος. Διὰ τοῦτό φησιν· «Σίμωνα τὸν λεγόμενον Πέτρον καὶ Ἀνδρέαν τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ», τὸν πληρώσαντα τὴν ἐντολὴν ἣν ἐν Παροιμίαις ὁ Σολομὼν προϋπέγραψεν· «Ἀδελφοὶ ἐν ἀνάγκαις ἔστωσαν χρήσιμοι», ἐν τοῖς ἄγαν συμφέρουσιν, ἐν τοῖς λίαν σπουδαίοις, ἐν τοῖς σφόδρα κατεπείγουσιν· τοῦτο γὰρ ὡς ἀναγκαίας καὶ ἀπαραιτήτους αἰτίας ἡ σοφία ἐκάλεσεν· «Ἀδελ φοὶ δὲ ἐν ἀνάγκαις ἔστωσαν χρήσιμοι.» Οὐ τοίνυν παρεῖδεν ὁ Ἀνδρέας τὸν Πέτρον κατεπειγούσης τῆς κλήσεως· ἀκήκοας γὰρ ὅπως πρὸς αὐτὸν ἔλεγεν· «Εὑρήκαμεν τὸν Μεσσίαν τὸν λεγό μενον Χριστόν.» Δράμε, Πέτρε, φησίν, πρὶν προλάβωσι Πέτροι, πρὶν ἄλλοι τῶν πρωτείων ἐπιλάβωνται· οὗτος γὰρ ὅθεν θέλει στρατολογεῖ, οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ ἀπὸ «τῶν\n\nὁδῶν καὶ φραγμῶν» ἀθροίζων, ὁ πόρνους καὶ τελῶνας σφραγίζων. Ἔνθα ἂν ῥίψῃ τὸν σπόρον, ἐκεῖ ἡ γῆ καρποφορεῖ, ὅπου τὸ κλῆμα φυτεύσει ἡ ἄμπελος παραχρῆμα ἀνέρχεται, ἔνθα ἂν ῥίψῃ τὸ δίκτυον, πλῆρες ἰχθύων εὑρίσκεται. «Εἶδεν δύο ἀδελφούς, Σίμωνα τὸν λεγόμενον Πέτρον καὶ Ἀνδρέαν τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ, βάλλοντας ἀμφίβληστρον εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν· ἦσαν γὰρ ἁλιεῖς.» Θαύμασον τοῦ Χριστοῦ τὴν φιλοτιμίαν ὅτι τοὺς πτωχοὺς καὶ ἀπαιδεύτους καὶ ἀγραμμάτους καὶ ἁλιεῖς ἐκλέλεκται. Ἡ σοφία γὰρ οὐ χρῄζει συνηγόρων ἀλλ' ὑπουργῶν· οὐδεὶς γὰρ αὐτῇ παρέχει, παρ' αὐτῆς δὲ πάντες τὰ πάντα λαμβάνομεν· οὐδεὶς γὰρ δανείζει τῷ πλουσίῳ, πάντες γὰρ παρ' αὐτοῦ δανειζόμεθα.","english":"And Andrew his brother,\" although he had once said, \"He saw two brothers,\" yet now he takes up the second as well, wishing to proclaim Andrew as the benefactor of Peter. For this reason he says, \"Simon who is called Peter and Andrew his brother,\" the one who fulfilled the commandment which Solomon prefigured in Proverbs: \"Let brothers be useful in necessities,\" in matters of great benefit, in very urgent affairs, in things that press exceedingly; for wisdom called these necessary and indispensable causes: \"Let brothers be useful in necessities.\" Therefore Andrew did not overlook Peter when the call was urgent; for you have heard how he said to him, \"We have found the Messiah who is called Christ.\" Run, Peter, he says, before other Peters anticipate you, before others seize the primacy; for this one recruits from wherever he wishes, this is the one who gathers from \"the roads and fences,\" who seals pimps and tax collectors. Wherever he casts the seed, there the land bears fruit; wherever he plants the vine, the vine immediately rises; wherever he casts the net, it is found full of fish. \"He saw two brothers, Simon who is called Peter and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.\" Marvel at Christ's ambition, that he has chosen the poor, the uneducated, the illiterate, and fishermen. For wisdom does not need advocates but servants; for no one provides anything to her, but from her we all receive everything; for no one lends to the rich man, for we all borrow from him.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Σίμωνα τὸν λεγόμενον Πέτρον καὶ Ἀνδρέαν τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ","severity":"info","text":"The phrase echoes the Gospel call narrative (cf. Mark 1:16-18; Matt 4:18). Hesychius treats it as a known scriptural citation.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Ἀδελφοὶ ἐν ἀνάγκαις ἔστωσαν χρήσιμοι","severity":"info","text":"Hesychius attributes this to Solomon in Proverbs; it is a paraphrase of Prov 17:17 LXX (ἀδελφοὶ ἐν ἀνάγκαις χρήσιμοι).","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Εὑρήκαμεν τὸν Μεσσίαν τὸν λεγόμενον Χριστόν","severity":"info","text":"A direct quotation of Andrew's announcement to Peter, found in John 1:41.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"ὁδῶν καὶ φραγμῶν","severity":"info","text":"An allusion to the parable of the sower (Matt 13:3-8) or to the gathering of disciples from humble places; the phrase is not a direct biblical citation but a rhetorical echo.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"ἁλιεῖς","severity":"info","text":"The description of Peter and Andrew as fishermen (ἁλιεῖς) is a standard Gospel detail (Mark 1:16; Matt 4:18). Hesychius uses it to highlight Christ's choice of the lowly.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"The passage moves from a scriptural citation (Prov 17:17) to a narrative of Andrew's role, then to a series of rhetorical praises of Christ's recruiting power, ending with a reflection on wisdom.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The phrase 'ἀπὸ τῶν ὁδῶν καὶ φραγμῶν' is ambiguous: it may refer to a specific Gospel parable or be a general rhetorical figure for gathering from all places."],"confidence":"high","notes":[]},{"i":12,"ref":"p12","source":"Τί τοίνυν χρεία σοφῶν ἔσται ἐν τῷ κηρύγματι; Δεῖ γὰρ γενέσθαι μωρὸν τὸν τῆς ἀληθοῦς σοφίας μεταλαμβάνειν μέλλοντα.\n\n8 Θαύμασον τοῦ Χριστοῦ τὴν σοφίαν καὶ τῶν ἀποστόλων τὴν ἐκλογὴν μακάρισον. Οἷα ἀνθ' οἵων ἠλλάξαντο; Δηλοῖ γὰρ τὰ ἐχόμενα τοῦ λέγειν αὐτοῖς· «Δεῦτε ὀπίσω μου καὶ ποιήσω ὑμᾶς ἁλιεῖς ἀνθρώπων.» Τῶν ἀρχαίων ἁπάντων ἐπιλάθεσθε, ἀρνήσασθε τοὺς γονεῖς τῆς σαρκὸς ἵνα τὸν πατέρα τὸν ἀληθινὸν ἀπολάβητε. Μικρὸς ὑμῖν ὁ κόσμος ἔστω ὅλος, πρὸς τὸν ποιητὴν τὸν ἑαυτοῦ κρινόμενος. «Δεῦτε ὀπίσω μου»· πρὸς γὰρ ζωὴν ὑμᾶς ἀνάγω, πρὸς τὸ φῶς χειραγωγῶ. «Δεῦτε ὀπίσω μου», ἵνα πατριάρχας προλάβητε, ἵνα πρὸ τῶν προφητῶν τὸν κλῆρον ὑποδέξησθε· καὶ ἔσχατοι ὄντες γενήσεσθε πρῶτοι, ἵνα οἱ περὶ τὴν ἑνδεκάτην τῶν πρωῒ ἅμα μισθωθέντων ἀνώτεροι γένησθε. «Δεῦτε ὀπίσω μου»· ἐμοὶ γὰρ ἀκολουθοῦντες βίον ἕξετε ἄπονον· χωρὶς γὰρ ἀργυρίου πλουτήσετε, χωρὶς φαρμάκων ἰατροὶ τῆς οἰκουμένης ἔσεσθε, χωρὶς ὅπλων εὑρεθήσεσθε τῶν ἐχθρῶν δυνατώτεροι. «Δεῦτε ὀπίσω μου»· «Ἐγὼ γάρ εἰμι τὸ φῶς τοῦ κόσμου», «ἐγώ εἰμι ἡ ὁδὸς καὶ ἡ ζωὴ καὶ ἡ ἀλήθεια», ἐγὼ πρὸς τὸν Πατέρα χειραγωγῶ, «ἐπὶ ἀσπίδα καὶ βασιλίσκον ἐπιβαίνειν καὶ καταπατεῖν λέοντα καὶ δράκοντα» τοῖς ὀπίσω μου πορευομένοις δίδωμι. «Καὶ εὐθέως ἀφέντες τὰ δίκτυα ἠκολούθησαν αὐτῷ.» Μακαρίσαι τοίνυν προσῆκεν τὴν τῶν ἀποστόλων εὐγνωμοσύνην· ὅπερ γὰρ εἶχον ἀφῆκαν, ἣν εἶχον ἀφορμὴν τοῦ βίου ταύτην ὑπερεῖδον. Ὅλος ἦν αὐτοῖς ὁ θησαυρὸς καὶ ὅλος ὁ πλοῦτος τὰ δίκτυα· τὴν γὰρ ζωὴν ἐν σαγήναις εἶχον· ἡ τῶν ἰχθύων ἄγρα τὰς ἐλπίδας τοῦ βίου ἔτρεφεν.","english":"What need, then, will there be of wise men in the proclamation? For the one who is to partake of true wisdom must become a fool.\n\n8 Marvel at the wisdom of Christ and bless the choice of the apostles. What things they exchanged for what! For what follows makes clear what he says to them: \"Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.\" Forget all the old things, deny the parents of the flesh so that you may receive the true father. Let the whole world be small to you, when compared to its own maker. \"Come after me\": for I lead you to life, I guide you by the hand to the light. \"Come after me,\" so that you may anticipate the patriarchs, so that you may receive your lot before the prophets; and being last, you will become first, so that those around the eleventh hour may become superior to those hired early in the morning. \"Come after me\": for following me you will have a life without toil; for without money you will become rich, without drugs you will be physicians of the world, without weapons you will be found mightier than your enemies. \"Come after me\": \"For I am the light of the world,\" \"I am the way and the life and the truth,\" I guide by the hand to the Father, \"I give to those who walk after me the power to tread upon the asp and the basilisk and to trample the lion and the dragon.\" \"And immediately, leaving their nets, they followed him.\" So it was fitting to bless the good sense of the apostles; for they left behind what they had, they disregarded the means of livelihood they possessed. Their entire treasure and all their wealth were the nets; for they had their life in their seines; the catch of fish sustained their hopes of living.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Δεῦτε ὀπίσω μου","severity":"info","text":"The repeated call 'Come after me' echoes Jesus' invitation to the first disciples, but the specific promise to make them 'fishers of men' is a direct allusion to Mark 1:17 or Matthew 4:19, where the same metaphor appears.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Ἐγὼ γάρ εἰμι τὸ φῶς τοῦ κόσμου","severity":"info","text":"The phrase 'I am the light of the world' is a direct quotation from John 8:12, and the subsequent 'I am the way and the life and the truth' conflates John 14:6 with John 11:25, showing a composite scriptural reference.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"ἐπὶ ἀσπίδα καὶ βασιλίσκον ἐπιβαίνειν","severity":"info","text":"The imagery of treading on the asp, basilisk, lion, and dragon is drawn from Psalm 91:13 (LXX 90:13), where God's power over venomous and wild beasts is described, here applied to Christ's gift to his followers.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"μωρὸν","severity":"info","text":"The paradox that one must become a 'fool' (μωρὸν) to partake of true wisdom reflects a topos in early Christian ascetic and apostolic literature, where worldly wisdom is inverted; cf. 1 Corinthians 1:21-25 on the folly of the cross.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"Δεῦτε ὀπίσω μου","severity":"info","text":"The fourfold repetition of 'Come after me' structures the passage as an anaphoric exhortation, each iteration introducing a new benefit (life, precedence, wealth, power), building to the apostles' immediate response.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"τῶν ἀποστόλων τὴν ἐκλογὴν","severity":"info","text":"Hesychius' praise of the apostles' 'choice' (ἐκλογὴν) and their exchange of nets for a higher calling reflects a hagiographic trope common in Byzantine homilies on Andrew, emphasizing the apostles' renunciation of worldly life.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The Greek text is clear; no significant ambiguities in this passage."],"confidence":"high","notes":[{"kind":"scripture","severity":"info","ref":"John 8:12","text":"The English carries the scriptural phrase “i am the light of the world”, which matches John 8:12. The match is on the English draft; check the Coptic before quoting the verse."}]},{"i":13,"ref":"p13","source":"Οἱ δὲ ἀφῆκαν καὶ ταῦτα, οὐκ εἶπον πρὸς ἑαυτούς· λήρους ἡμῖν οὗτος καὶ μύθους περιττοὺς διαλέγεται, ἁλιεῖς ἀνθρώπων καταστῆσαι ἐπαγγέλλεται. Καὶ ποῦ τοιοῦτον δίκτυον; Ποῦ σαγήνη τοιαῦτα δυναμένη θηρᾶν; Τίς δὲ λίμνη, τίς δὲ θάλασσα ἀνθρώπους ἡμῖν τοῖς δικτύοις προσφέρουσα; Τί δὲ τὸ κέρδος τῆς θήρας ἔσται; Ποῦ τὴν θήραν μετὰ τὴν θήραν χρησόμεθα; Ἀλλὰ τῷ καλοῦντι προσέχοντες καὶ τῇ πίστει βεβαιωθέντες καὶ τὸν λόγον ἔχειν τι νενοηκότες ἀπόκρυφον, ἠκολούθησαν αὐτῷ· καὶ παραχρῆμα τῆς γῆς ἄνω γεγόνασι καὶ βασιλέων ὤφθησαν ἐνδοξότεροι, ἀγγέλων ὅμοιοι, λειτουργοὶ θεοῦ, σωτηρίας κήρυκες, ἀθανασίας διάκονοι, ἡλίου καὶ σελήνης καὶ ἀστέρων ἐκλαμπρότεροι· τούτων γὰρ ἡ δόξα οὐχ ὡς ὑπὸ τῶν οὐρανῶν ἀλλ' ὑπὲρ τῶν οὐρανῶν ἐστιν, τὸ φῶς ἔχουσιν ἄσβεστον, τὸν δρόμον ἀκατάπαυστον, τὰς ἀκτῖνας ἀειφανεῖς, ἃς ἡμεῖς ἐλλαμφθῆναι ταῖς ἡμετέραις διανοίαις εὐξώμεθα. Καὶ αὐτὸ τὸ σκότος ἐκφύγωμεν καὶ τοῦ βίου τὴν ἅλμην ἐκκλίνωμεν καὶ τὴν ἄστατον πορευόμενοι θάλασσαν τὸν κλύδωνα τῶν ψυχοφθόρων κυμάτων ἐκφύγωμεν καὶ γενώμεθα Χριστοῦ ἀγραμμάτων ἀποστόλων ἰχθύες τῆς ἄνω σαγήνης, ὄψα τῆς δεσποτικῆς τραπέζης ἣν ὁ βασιλεὺς τῶν βασιλευόντων δειπνεῖ βρῶσιν τὴν ἡμετέραν σωτηρίαν ἡγούμενος· αὐτῷ ἡ δόξα καὶ τὸ κράτος εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων. Ἀμήν.","english":"They abandoned these things as well, and did not say to themselves: \"This man is talking nonsense to us, telling superfluous tales; he claims he will make fishermen into catchers of men. And where is such a net? Where is a dragnet capable of hunting such prey? What lake, what sea will bring us men in our nets? And what will be the profit of the catch? Where shall we use the catch after the catch?\" But attending to the one who called, confirmed in faith, and having perceived that the word held some hidden meaning, they followed him. And immediately they rose above the earth and appeared more glorious than kings, like angels, ministers of God, heralds of salvation, servants of immortality, more radiant than the sun, moon, and stars. For their glory is not as that under the heavens but above the heavens; they have an inextinguishable light, an unceasing course, rays ever visible. Let us pray that we may be illuminated in our minds by these rays. And let us flee the darkness itself, avoid the brine of life, and as we traverse the unsteady sea, escape the surge of soul-destroying waves, and become fish of the upper dragnet of Christ's unlettered apostles, a dish for the Lord's table at which the King of kings dines, deeming our salvation his food. Glory and power to him for ever and ever. Amen.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"sense","kind":"sense","basis":"text","lemma":"ἁλιεῖς ἀνθρώπων","severity":"info","text":"The phrase 'fishers of men' echoes the Gospel call (cf. Mark 1:17) and is the central metaphor of the homily, here recontextualized as the apostles' transformed identity.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"ἰχθύες τῆς ἄνω σαγήνης","severity":"info","text":"The image of believers as 'fish of the upper dragnet' inverts the apostolic fishing metaphor, drawing on early Christian ichthys symbolism and the net as a figure of the Church (cf. John 21:6-11).","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"ἅλμην","severity":"info","text":"'Brine' (ἅλμην) evokes the bitterness of worldly life, a common ascetic trope; Hesychius contrasts it with the 'upper dragnet' of salvation, aligning with desert spirituality.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"The passage moves from a hypothetical objection (the apostles' doubt) to a catalogue of apostolic glory, then to a hortatory conclusion urging the congregation to become 'fish' for Christ's table.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"βασιλεὺς τῶν βασιλευόντων","severity":"info","text":"The title 'King of kings' (βασιλεὺς τῶν βασιλευόντων) is a standard Byzantine imperial epithet for Christ, reinforcing the homily's liturgical and political context.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"ἀγραμμάτων","severity":"caution","text":"The term 'unlettered' (ἀγραμμάτων) for the apostles is paradoxical given their wisdom; it may reflect a traditional topos of apostolic simplicity (cf. Acts 4:13) or a textual variant.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The phrase 'ἀγραμμάτων ἀποστόλων' could be read as 'unlettered apostles' (a common hagiographic trope) or as a scribal error for 'agrammaton' meaning 'of the unlettered ones'; the translation follows the former.","The final clause 'βρῶσιν τὴν ἡμετέραν σωτηρίαν ἡγούμενος' is ambiguous: Christ 'deems our salvation his food' or 'leads our salvation as food'; the translation opts for the former."],"confidence":"high","notes":[]}]}