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Homilies on the Devil's Temptations (On the Impotence of the Devil)

De diabolo tentatore (homiliae III; Greek title not verified) · John Chrysostom · c. 386-390 (Antioch, early priesthood) · homily

Greek · domain: antiochene · 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

HOLLIS Primo 'Chrysostom de diabolo tentatore' (2026-11-13) returns only the 2013 Sources chrétiennes volume 'Homélies sur l'impuissance du diable' (French); a search for 'Chrysostom de paenitentia homilies' returns nothing relevant for this set. The three homilies are printed in Migne PG 49, whose archive.org contents note lists 'De diabolo tentatore homiliae' among the Antiochene homilies. NPNF series 1 volumes 9-14 (the Chrysostom volumes) contain the homilies on Matthew, John, Acts, Romans, Corinthians, the Prison Epistles and Hebrews plus the treatises, but not these homilies; no volume in Fathers of the Church, Ancient Christian Writers or Popular Patristics was located.

Three Antiochene homilies arguing that the devil acts only by persuasion, a theme that runs through Chrysostom's moral teaching and is otherwise reachable in English only in scattered quotations. A minor work by word count, included because the French series has it and the English one does not, which makes the gap easy to state and easy to close.

Existing translations recorded

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

Electronic text

Source and licence
archive.org · PDF scan · public domain (Migne, 1859)
patrologiae_cursus_completus_gr_vol_049

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: John Chrysostom Homilies on the Devils Temptations — 1 record(s); match basis author_title_unquoted.

RecordCitation
Homélies sur l'impuissance du diable
John Chrysostom, Saint, -407 · 2013 · grc, fre
John Chrysostom, Saint, -407. "Homélies sur l'impuissance du diable." Paris : Les Éditions du Cerf, 2013. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990138628870203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Homilies on the Devil's Temptations (On the Impotence of the Devil)” (greek gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/greek-chrysostom-de-diabolo-tentatore