On Repentance and Continence

· Pseudo-Theophilus of Alexandria · Coptic version of uncertain date (MS London, BL Or. 5001); attribution to Theophilus of A… · homily

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

partial / older only. An English translation exists but is partial or older than the critical edition. The gap is a modern, complete translation from the original. A rendering of a daughter version does not count here: it is recorded on the dossier of the text it actually translates.

Why this is in the register

SCRIPTORIUM TEI header: 'translation: none' (https://data.copticscriptorium.org/texts/pseudotheophilus/on-repentance-and-continence-budge-ed/). That is contradicted by the printed volume: Budge 1910 contents leaf 'IV. The Discourse of Archbishop Theophilus, which he pronounced on Repentance and Continence ... Text 66 / Translation 212' (https://archive.org/details/coptichomiliesin00budgrich). So a complete English exists, at pp. 212-225, but only in Budge 1910. HOLLIS 'Theophilus of Alexandria Coptic sermon repentance' = 0 records (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Theophilus%20of%20Alexandria%20Coptic%20sermon%20repentance&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 HOLLIS 'pseudo-Theophilus Coptic' = 0 (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,pseudo-Theophilus%20Coptic&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 By contrast the separate Ps.-Theophilus sermon De Cruce et Latrone (CPG 2622) does have an English translation, in A. Suciu, ZAC 16 (2012) 181-225 - so the family is unevenly served.

5,262 Coptic word tokens in the TEI (extent estimated at c.1.3 English words per token). The mismatch between SCRIPTORIUM's metadata and Budge's printed translation is documented here so that the site does not label an existing English version as 'none'.

Existing translations recorded

Edition / series
Coptic Homilies in the Dialect of Upper Egypt · E. A. Wallis Budge · 1910

Electronic text

Source and licence
Coptic Scriptorium · TEI XML · CC-BY 4.0 urn:cts:copticLit:pstheophilus.repentance.budge_ed:1-59

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: "On Repentance and Continence" — 1 record(s); match basis title_only.

Record	Citation
Coptic homilies in the dialect of Upper Egypt; edited from the papyrus codex Oriental 5001 in the British museum Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934 · 1910 · eng, cop	Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934. "Coptic homilies in the dialect of Upper Egypt; edited from the papyrus codex Oriental 5001 in the British museum." London, Printed by order of the Trustees and sold at the British museum [etc.] 1910. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99002241740…

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “On Repentance and Continence” (coptic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/coptic-pseudo-theophilus-repentance