Elucidations.
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I
can
do no better than
follow Dupin as to the authorship of these Homilies. He thinks
the style of Proclus (of Constantinople) may be detected in them,
though the fourth is beyond him for eloquence, and has even been
thought worthy of St. Chrysostom. It was produced after
Nicæa, and probably after Ephesus, its somewhat exaggerated
praises of the
θεοτόκος
being
unusual at an earlier period. The titles of these Homilies are
the work of much later editors; and interpolations probably occur
frequently, by the same hands.