Recently, we read Calming the Storm from Matthew 8:23-27. This time, we will read a version of John Chrysostom’s commentary on this episode in Coptic, adapted from his Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily XXVIII), which he delivered in Antioch at the end of the fourth century. 1 The oldest surviving Bohairic manuscript (dated…
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Read in Coptic: Calming the Storm
Calming the Storm is a well-known story recorded in the gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. In Coptic, it is called ⲡⲓϫⲓⲛⲉⲣⲉ̀ⲡⲓⲧⲓⲙⲁⲛ ⲛ̀ⲛⲓⲑⲏⲟⲩ ⲛⲉⲙⲫⲓⲟⲙ “The Rebuking of the Winds and the Sea”. The story recounts Jesus’s miraculous authority over nature while on a boat with his disciples on the Sea of Galilee. The following is…