Shenoute, abbot of the White Monastery near Sohag in Upper Egypt (ob. c. 465), in a Coptic Discourse refers to the saints as judges; written in the 5th century.
Evidence ID
E02850
Type of Evidence
Literary - Sermons/Homilies
Major author/Major anonymous work
Shenoute of Atripe
In his discourses entitled Some kinds of people sift dirt and Whoever seeks God will find (discourses 5, work 2 and 3), Shenoute mentions that the saints will act as powerful judges.
‘Let us be ashamed before the saints as if they were among us now, lest we fail to escape being blamed for foolishness by them on the day when we shall see them face to face, when they say to us these words: “Are these people the salt of the earth, who came after us?” and, “Are these people the light of the world?” and, “(Are they) words of freedom?”’
Translation: Brakke and Crislip 2017, 113.
A critical edition of the Coptic text is still pending.
Liturgical Activities
Sermon/homily
Theorising on SanctityConsiderations about the veneration of saints
Source
Shenoute’s entire literary corpus, preserved in medieval manuscripts only, almost exclusively comes from a single find spot, a storeroom of the church at his ‘White’ monastery. A critical edition of this entire corpus of Shenoute's written work is still in preparation by S. Emmel and others.Bibliography
Translation and Discussion:Brakke, D., and Crislip, A., Selected Discourses of Shenoute the Great: Community, Theology, and Social Conflict in Late Antique Egypt (Cambridge, 2017), 106–117.
Record Created By
Gesa Schenke
Date of Entry
26/5/2017
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00518 | Saints, unnamed | Certain |
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