On the Incarnation, against Apollinarius

De incarnatione contra Apollinarium (libri II) [Sp.] · Athanasius of Alexandria (transmitted under his name; generally judged spurious or partly authentic) · 4th century (c. 370s-380s) · treatise

Greek · domain: alexandrian · researched 2026-11-13

Why this is in the register

The NPNF second series volume 4 (Athanasius: Select Works and Letters) table of contents lists no work against Apollinarius — searching its contents for 'Apollin' returns nothing, while it does list Contra Gentes, De Incarnatione, the four Orations against the Arians, De Decretis, De Sententia Dionysii, Vita Antonii, the Serapion letters, Apologia contra Arianos, Apologia ad Constantium, De Fuga, Historia Arianorum, De Synodis, Tomus ad Antiochenos, Ad Afros and the Festal/Personal letters: https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf204.toc.html. HOLLIS Primo 'Athanasius "Contra Apollinarium"' returns four records, all Greek/Latin editions or German and English scholarship, none a translation: https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Athanasius%20%22Contra%20Apollinarium%22&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 the variant 'Athanasius "Against Apollinarius" incarnation' returns 0 records: https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Athanasius%20%22Against%20Apollinarius%22%20incarnation&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 No Fathers of the Church, Ancient Christian Writers or Popular Patristics volume of it was located.

Transmitted in two books under Athanasius' name and conventionally marked spurious (the second book is usually thought to preserve some Athanasian material). The Greek title is not securely transmitted, so the standard Latin designation is given. No open-access TEI edition was located; the Greek text is in Migne's Patrologia Graeca and in the Athanasius corpus editions.

Existing translations recorded

None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.

Electronic text

No open electronic text was verified for this work. The Greek/Coptic/Geʿez may exist only in a print or subscription edition (Migne, CSCO, TLG, CMCL).

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: open scan — 1 candidate(s). PG 26 is the only Migne home for the work. Two further scans of the same volume exist but with much smaller page images: 'patrologia-graeca_202105' file 26.pdf (76 MB, 26_djvu.txt 6.0 MB, 0 Greek characters in the text layer, /page/ images 1190x1684) and 'patrologia-volumes' 026.pdf/026_text.pdf (same low image resolution). The bim/GTU copy recorded here is the best image source (5181x8152); re-OCR needs a column crop (left column Greek, right Latin) and tesseract -l grc, which is installed on this host. A separate single-volume item for PG 26 does not exist (identifier:patrologiaecursu0026mign and *26mign return nothing).

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: Athanasius of Alexandria On the Incarnation against Apollinarius — 4 record(s); match basis author_title_unquoted.

Sources checked

• HOLLIS search — Athanasius "Against Apollinarius" incarnation
• HOLLIS search — Athanasius "Contra Apollinarium"
• https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf204.toc.html

Cite: Tergwame, “On the Incarnation, against Apollinarius” (greek gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/greek-athanasius-contra-apollinarium