Abstract:One of the most famous aspects of Gregory of Nazianzus's panegyric for Basil of Caesarea is his account of Basil's confrontation with the emperor Valens. On the eve of exiling the bishop, the latter had called on Basil for aid for his ailing son. Basil's intercession ultimately failed to save the boy's life; later historians, however, remembered the incident as a dramatic, if temporary, turning point in the relationship between bishop and emperor. This episode forms the backdrop to a homily for a departed child and was transmitted in two Syriac manuscripts. Both attribute the homily to Basil, with the earlier witness presenting it as preached on the occasion of the funeral of a king's son. This description suggests the possibility either of recovering a funerary oration preached by Basil, now lost from his Greek corpus, or of a Syriac funerary sermon attributed to Basil in light of his encounter with Valens. This article examines both possibilities with an eye towards the content shared between the manuscripts—an extended exposition of children's nature and fate after death—and its resonance with the genuine works of Basil, his Greek contemporaries, and Syriac Christian authors from the centuries preceding the homily's earliest witness.

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埋葬皇帝的儿子：叙利亚葬礼布道中的瓦伦斯和罗勒的遗产

摘要：纳齐安苏斯的格雷戈里对凯撒利亚的巴兹尔的颂歌最著名的方面之一是他对巴兹尔与瓦伦斯皇帝的对抗的描述。在流放主教的前夜，后者曾向巴西尔求助，以帮助他生病的儿子。巴西尔的求情最终没能挽救男孩的生命；然而，后来的历史学家认为这一事件是主教和皇帝之间关系的一个戏剧性的、即使是暂时的转折点。这一集构成了一个离世儿童讲道的背景，并在两份叙利亚手稿中传播。两者都将讲道归功于巴西尔，较早的证人将其呈现为在国王儿子的葬礼之际讲道。这种描述表明，有可能恢复巴西尔所宣扬的葬礼演说，现已从他的希腊语语料库中丢失，或根据巴兹尔与瓦伦斯的相遇而归功于他的叙利亚葬礼布道。本文着眼于手稿之间共享的内容——对儿童死后的本性和命运的扩展阐述——以及它与巴兹尔、他的希腊同时代人以及叙利亚基督教作家在公元前几个世纪的真实作品的共鸣，研究了这两种可能性。讲道最早的见证人。