Silenzio e parola nell'In epistola Jacobi catholica breuis enarratio di Didimo il cieco

The radical difference between the passage of Didymus-Epiphanius and the Greek exegetical tradition relating to the same passage of Iac. 3,1-12 must lead us to be very cautious in assigning paternity so indiscriminately to the Alexandrian. We try to demonstrate that the exegetical passage on Iac. 3, 1-12 in the original by Didymus probably did not appear exactly as we read today in the translation prepared by Epiphanius. It would have been the latter who on his own initiative introduced all the reflection on the duplicity of the word, the expressed and the unexpressed one, and who gave the latter the greatest weight in relation to the sins of continence. The preparation of this passage is influenced by Western thought, and that it has its spearheads in thinkers such as Augustine and Ambrose, to whom, therefore, Epiphanius would have referred in order to intervene on the text that he had in front of him, probably already different from the original by Didymus.