On the Two Wills in Christ

De duabus in Christo voluntatibus · John of Damascus · 8th century (before 749) · treatise

Greek · domain: later-byzantine · 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

Checked 2026-11-13. PG 95 prints it with the heading 'De duabus in Christo voluntatibus' immediately before 'De duabus naturis et una hypostasi' (OCR of the volume: https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_1860_95). HOLLIS 'John of Damascus two wills Christ treatise' returns 0 records (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,John%20of%20Damascus%20two%20wills%20Christ%20treatise&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 HOLLIS 'John of Damascus De duabus voluntatibus' also returns 0 (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,John%20of%20Damascus%20De%20duabus%20voluntatibus&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 Crossref returns only modern studies of the treatise - 'The List of Aristotelian Types of Motion and Its Extension in De duabus in Christo voluntatibus of John Damascene' (Scrinium, 2021) and 'Natural Will in John of Damascus' De duabus Christi voluntatibus' (Scrinium, 2024) - not translations. FOTC 37 (Fount of Knowledge only), PPS and ACW have no translation.

Dyothelete treatise (against the Monothelites), printed in PG 95 alongside De duabus naturis et una hypostasi. The two works are routinely conflated in the secondary literature but are distinct.

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, 1857-1866); archive.org scan bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_1860_95

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 of Damascus On the Two Wills in Christ — 3 record(s); match basis author_title_unquoted.

Record	Citation
The person of Christ : a biblical and historical analysis of the incarnation Wells, David F · 1984 · eng	Wells, David F. "The person of Christ : a biblical and historical analysis of the incarnation." Westchester, Ill. : Crossway Books, c1984. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990003745190203941
Papers of the Blech-Meyer-Dowd family, 1728-1999 (inclusive), 1800-1952 (bulk) Wright, Barbara Dowd · 1728-1999 · eng, ger, fre	Wright, Barbara Dowd. "Papers of the Blech-Meyer-Dowd family, 1728-1999 (inclusive), 1800-1952 (bulk)." 1728-1999. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990092098550203941
The kingdom, the power, and the glory : American evangelicals in an age of extremism Alberta, Tim · 2023 · eng	Alberta, Tim. "The kingdom, the power, and the glory : American evangelicals in an age of extremism." New York, NY : Harper, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2023]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99157139463203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “On the Two Wills in Christ” (greek gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/greek-john-damascus-de-duabus-voluntatibus