933Severian, on Pentecost, compares the giving of the law at Sinai with the coming of the Spirit, explains the tongues of fire, and argues from Scripture that the Spirit shares the Father's and Son's works of consoling, freeing, giving life, appointing ministers, legislating, and sending, so that the three are one God and one Lord.
disputed · Printed by Migne among the spuria of Chrysostom (PG 63); the Clavis Patrum Graecorum (Supplementum 1998) lists it as Severian of Gabala's (CPG 4211).
Standing
Not honoured as a saint or in a church calendar by the Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant traditions. Not commemorated as a saint by any of the three traditions; a bishop in communion with the church of his time, so not outside it despite his quarrel with Chrysostom.
Date
ca. 400 (approximate) · Severian preached at Constantinople about 400; the individual homily is not dated more closely.
Written at
Constantinople, Thrace (probable)
Language
Greek
Genre
homily
Reference system
section numerals as printed by Migne; where the piece has none, Migne column
SBL abbreviation
Pent.Not yet checked
Clavis
CPG 4211 (unverified)
Text from
J.-P. Migne, ed., Patrologia Graeca 63 (Paris, 1862), cols. 933-938 (among the spuria of Chrysostom) (Printed edition in the public domain; OCR transcription (archive.org) of public-domain page images)
Critical editions
J.-P. Migne, ed., Patrologia Graeca 63 (Paris, 1862) (cited, not reproduced)