Recognized as a saint by both Chalcedonian and non-Chalcedonian Christians alike, Jacob of Sarug (d. 521) produced many narrative poems that have rarely been translated into English. Of his reported 760 metrical homilies, only about half survive. Part of a series of fascicles containing the bilingual Syriac-English editions of Saint Jacob of Sarug’s homilies, this volume contains his homily on the Holy Sunday of the Pentecost. The Syriac text is fully vocalized, and the translation is annotated with a commentary and biblical references. The volume is one of the fascicles of Gorgias Press’s Complete Homilies of Saint Jacob of Sarug, which, when complete, will contain all of Jacob’s surviving sermons.

• Table of Contents (page 7)
• List of Abbreviations (page 9)
• Introduction (page 11)
• Outline (page 11)
• Summary (page 12)
• Text and Translation (page 13)
• Supplication for the Word and Wisdom (page 14)
• A Merciful Teaching to the Sinful and Rebellious (page 16)
• The Hidden Mercy and the Chastisement (page 18)
• The Church-elect in Babel and the Upper Room (page 22)
• The Gathering in the Upper Room (page 24)
• The Promise of the Father and the Armour of the Son (page 26)
• The Ascension of the Son and the Coming of the Spirit (page 28)
• The Gift of the Tongues of Fire and the Spirit (page 30)
• The Upper Room, a School and a Treasury of Arms (page 30)
• Upper Room, the Spiritual Babel (page 32)
• The Great Feast and the Speech from the Cross (page 34)
• Equality of the Son and the Father at Babel and Upper Room (page 36)
• The Single Teaching At Babel and in the Upper Room (page 38)
• The Son Speaks in the Language of each People (page 42)
• Babel, a Sign of the Advent of the Son (page 44)
• Clothing With the Armour of Fire and the Spirit (page 48)
• The Teaching from the Upper Room (page 50)
• Bibliography (page 55)
• Index of Names and Themes (page 57)
• Index of Biblical References (page 58)