The Two Recensions of the Homily In mulieres unguentiferas: The Question of Its Two Endings

This article analyses the two endings of the two recensions of the Paschal homily In mulieres unguentiferas. The first, securely attributable to Gregory of Antioch, concludes with a mystagogical and Eucharistic peroratio. The second, which I propose to ascribe to his successor Anastasius, ends with a catechumenal exhortation characterised by a chain of imperatives, the baptism-sphragis sequence, and the citation of Ps 31(32), 1. These elements reflect late antique catechetical traditions and support its attribution to Anastasius rather than to a later Byzantine reworking.