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Hesychius and Timotheus of Jerusalem, On the Hypapante

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Summary

This dossier concerns the Georgian translation of a homily for the Feast of the Hypapante (Presentation of the Lord), attributed to Hesychius of Jerusalem (d. after 451) and Timotheus of Jerusalem (fl. 5th–6th c.). The text survives in a single Georgian manuscript tradition, likely translated from Greek in the early medieval period, and is edited from the TITUS corpus. The homily integrates into the Byzantine and Georgian festal cycle, employing allegorical and typological imagery to celebrate the meeting of Christ and Simeon in the Temple. The edition lacks a critical apparatus for the Greek Vorlage and does not collate multiple Georgian witnesses, limiting textual reconstruction.

This homily is significant as a witness to the development of the Hypapante feast in the Jerusalem tradition and its reception in Georgian Christianity. It exemplifies the allegorical and typological preaching style of Hesychius, a key figure in early Byzantine homiletics. The text also illustrates the transmission of Greek patristic literature into Georgian, contributing to the study of medieval Georgian liturgy and manuscript culture.

Historical context

The homily is attributed to Hesychius of Jerusalem, a presbyter and preacher active in the mid-5th century, and to Timotheus of Jerusalem, a figure of the 5th–6th centuries. Both were associated with the Jerusalem liturgical tradition, which developed a rich festal cycle centered on the holy sites. The Feast of the Hypapante (Meeting) commemorates the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple, forty days after Christmas, and was celebrated in Jerusalem from at least the 4th century. The Georgian translation likely occurred in the early medieval period, when Georgian monastic communities in Palestine and Sinai translated Greek liturgical and patristic texts. The single manuscript witness suggests limited circulation, and the absence of a critical edition of the Greek original hinders precise dating. The text reflects the typological and allegorical exegesis characteristic of Hesychius, linking Old Testament figures (Anna the prophetess, the Holy Innocents) to the feast's Christological meaning.

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  • limitThe English is a machine draft produced passage by passage from the transcribed Coptic; no human has verified it. The commentary is model-written and cites only keys the pipeline could resolve.
  • registerRegister: liturgy in Old Georgian; the English keeps the liturgical formulae and the vocatives rather than normalising them.
  • structurePassages: 1 narrative.
  • sourceSource edition: titus — This text is part of the TITUS edition of Hesych/Timotheus of Jerusalem, Sermones in Hypapanten. Copyright TITUS Project, Frankfurt a/M, 5.3.2021. No parts of this document may be republished in any form without prior permission by the copyright holder.

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მიგებებაჲ (CPG 6565) თქუმული ევსუქი ხუცისა იერუსალჱმელისაჲ შობითგან უფლისა ჩუენისა იესუ ქრისტჱსა მეორმეოცესა დღესა, ოდეს მიიყვანეს ტაძრად და მიიქუმიდა მას წმიდაჲ სჳმეონ საყუარელნო, კრებაჲ ესე დღისაჲ ამის ყოვლადვე სასურველ არს მორწმუნეთათჳს, უფროჲს ხოლო ამისთჳს, რამეთუ დედაჲ ყოველთა დღესასწაულთაჲ არს დღენდელი ესე დღჱ, რამეთუ შემოქმედი იერუსალჱმისაჲ დღეს შემოვიდა და აკურთხა, რომლისა ზღუდენი ჴელითა თჳსითა გამოწერნა და დასხნა საფუძველად მისა ქვანი საფირონნი და სუეტნი მისნი იასპინისანი და ბჭენი მისნი ბროლისანი და ქვითა მით პატიოსნითა შეზღუდა იგი და მას შინა დასხნა მოძღურად ებისკოპოსნი და სცხო ქალაქსა სიმართლჱ და ყოველი იგი ერი ზიარ ანგელოზთა ყო და უცხონი მკჳდრ-ყვნა ანგელოზთა თანა. და რომელთა დაჰმარხნეს ჴორცნი თჳსნი სიწმიდით, მკჳდრ-ყვნა იგინი იაკობის თანა და ბრძენთა მათ თანა ქალწულთა შეიყვანნა იგინი ქორწილსა მას ზეცისასა. ყრმანი მისნი გჳრგჳნოსან-ყვნა შვილთა თანა ბეთლემისათა; ქურივნი მისნი იჩინნა ანაჲს თანა წინაწარმეტყუელისა; მოხუცებულთა მისთა აწუევს ვითარცა სჳმეონს, რაჲთა საყდარ ყვნენ მკლავნი მოთნი.
English
The Meeting (CPG 6565) spoken by Hesychius, Bishop of Jerusalem, concerning the fortieth day from the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ, when He was brought into the Temple and the holy Symeon received Him. Beloved, this assembly of this day is altogether desirable for the faithful, especially for this reason, that the mother of all feasts is this present day, for the Creator of Jerusalem entered today and blessed it, whose walls He drew with His own hand and laid as its foundation stones of sapphire, and its pillars of jasper, and its gates of crystal, and with that precious stone He enclosed it, and within it He placed as teachers the bishops, and anointed the city with righteousness, and made all that people partakers with the angels, and made the strangers dwell together with the angels. And those who buried their bodies in sanctity, He made them dwell together with Jacob, and with those wise virgins He brought them into that heavenly wedding. His children He crowned together with the children of Bethlehem; His widows He recognized together with Anna the prophetess; His elders He comforted like Symeon, that their arms might become a throne.
Citation. Tergwame, “Hesychius and Timotheus of Jerusalem, On the Hypapante”, hypap:1, machine-draft, 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/works/hypap#s1
Colophon. Source: titus · licence: This text is part of the TITUS edition of Hesych/Timotheus of Jerusalem, Sermones in Hypapanten. Copyright TITUS Project, Frankfurt a/M, 5.3.2021. No parts of this document may be republished in any form without prior permission by the copyright holder. · model: deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash:floor · provider: Relace · cost: $0.0010 · generated 2026-11-15.