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Sermon on Isaiah 1:16-17

· Pseudo-Demetrius of Antioch · Bohairic text in Vatican Coptic MS 62; date of composition unknown · homily

Coptic · domain: homilies · researched 2026-11-13

no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.

Why this is in the register

Edited with a French translation only by Henri De Vis, Homelies coptes de la Vaticane (Coptica 1, Copenhagen 1922), 'Sermon de Demetrius sur Is. I. 16, 17', 'Texte et traduction' pp. 129-197 - the volume's table of contents is visible in the scan (https://archive.org/details/homliescoptesd01devi). No English version: HOLLIS 'homelies coptes de la Vaticane' returns 3 records, all French (1922 Hauniae; a Peeters 1990 reprint with languages fre;cop) (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,homelies%20coptes%20de%20la%20Vaticane&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 HOLLIS 'Demetrius of Antioch discourse Coptic' = 0 (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Demetrius%20of%20Antioch%20discourse%20Coptic&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 HOLLIS 'Bohairic homilies Vatican Coptic 62' = 0 records (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Bohairic%20homilies%20Vatican%20Coptic%2062&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 This is a different work from the Demetrius discourse in Budge 1915 (item III, 'on the birth according to the flesh of God the Word').

Bohairic. De Vis himself (Introduction, and the note at the head of the sermon) discusses the attribution and compares the text with the Sahidic version; the edition is the standard one. English coverage is nil: this is the strongest 'none' case in the domain.

Existing translations recorded

Edition / series
Homelies coptes de la Vaticane · Coptica 1 (French translation) · Henri De Vis · 1922

Electronic text

Source and licence
archive.org · PDF scan · public domain (1922)
homliescoptesd01devi

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: not checked. Not searched in the scan pass: this dossier was outside the 121-work scan target set.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: Pseudo-Demetrius of Antioch — 0 record(s). No catalogue record was retrieved.

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Sermon on Isaiah 1:16-17” (coptic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/coptic-pseudo-demetrius-antioch-isaiah