Sources and Credits

Where each text comes from, and the licence under which it may be reused.

Liturgical Homilies

English translation by R. H. Connolly, from The Liturgical Homilies of Narsai , translated into English with an introduction by R. H. Connolly (Cambridge: University Press, 1909; Texts and Studies 8.1); public domain. The text was read by machine (Mistral OCR) from a scan of the 1909 edition at the Internet Archive and has not been proofread against the printed book. SermonIndex has removed running heads and page numbers, joined words split across lines, and divided the text into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. Footnotes and the editor’s introduction are left out. No original-language text is shown beside it, and no modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation was published in 1909 and is in the public domain. Licence: Public domain.

Two Homilies on Receiving Communion (Extracts)

English translation: an older public-domain translation as collected in the Writings-Database (HistoricalChristianFaith), mostly from the Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers and similar nineteenth-century editions. SermonIndex has only divided it into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. No Greek or Latin text is shown beside it yet, and no modern English version has been made. Licence: Public domain.

Mystic Treatises

English translation: an older public-domain translation as collected in the Writings-Database (HistoricalChristianFaith), mostly from the Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers and similar nineteenth-century editions. SermonIndex has only divided it into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. No Greek or Latin text is shown beside it yet, and no modern English version has been made. Licence: Public domain.

Summary History of the World,, Book 15

English translation: an out-of-copyright translation as transcribed, or commissioned and given to the public domain, by Roger Pearse for his collection Early Church Fathers – Additional Texts ( tertullian.org/fathers ). SermonIndex has only divided it into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. No Greek or Latin text is shown beside it yet, and no modern English version has been made. Licence. translated for the site and dedicated to the public domain (2010). Licence: Public domain.

Letter to John the Stylite on the genealogy of the Virgin Mary

English translation: an out-of-copyright translation as transcribed, or commissioned and given to the public domain, by Roger Pearse for his collection Early Church Fathers – Additional Texts ( tertullian.org/fathers ). SermonIndex has only divided it into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. No Greek or Latin text is shown beside it yet, and no modern English version has been made. Licence. published 1901. Licence: Public domain.

Apology for Christianity, to the Caliph al-Mahdi

English translation: an out-of-copyright translation as transcribed, or commissioned and given to the public domain, by Roger Pearse for his collection Early Church Fathers – Additional Texts ( tertullian.org/fathers ). SermonIndex has only divided it into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. No Greek or Latin text is shown beside it yet, and no modern English version has been made. Licence. published 1928. Licence: Public domain.