Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew

About this edition

These homilies of St John Chrysostom on the Gospel of Matthew are presented here in a lightly modernised English edition for easier reading.

The aim is not to rewrite Chrysostom, but to make an older English translation more accessible to a modern reader while preserving the meaning, argument, and character of the original work as closely as possible.

Each homily includes the principal Scripture passage it discusses, making it easier to move between Chrysostom’s preaching and the biblical text itself.

The modernisation has been produced with the assistance of language models and manually reviewed against the underlying public-domain English translation.

This remains a reader’s edition rather than a new critical translation. Readers wishing to study a passage closely should consult the original translation and, where necessary, the Greek text.

Textual Source

This reader’s edition is based on The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Gospel of St. Matthew, translated by George Prevost and revised by M. B. Riddle, published in Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Volume 10. The public-domain English text was taken from the PDF edition linked below.