АВВА МАКАРИЙ И СВЕТЪТ ОТВЪД ТОЗИ СВЯТ (ЗА ПЪРВООБРАЗНИЯ „ЗЛАТОСТРУЙ“)
ABBA MACARIUS AND THE WORLD BEYOND THIS WORLD (ON THE ORIGINAL ZLATOSTRUJ)

Summary/Abstract: This study summarises the author’s way to finding the initial contents of the famous translated anthology of homilies by and excerpts from John Chrysostom. It was compiled by the educated Bulgarian ruler, Tsar Simeon the Great (893–927) and was translated in the 9th century, after 893. The exceedingly apt title of Zlatostruj (literally „Golden Stream“) is a symbolic expression of the of the blessed word of Chrysostom and the book surely has the objective to transform the unenlightened Bulgarian people by means of persuasion, not by force, as it was until 893. The initial translation featured 45 homilies. This thesis is confirmed by two Vilnius copies of the Zlatostruj from the Monastery of the Annunciation in Supraśl, currently located at the library of the Wróblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences in Vilnius, Lithuania. This thesis is confirmed by newly discovered copies. The texts of Abba Macarius’ Word and the Nameless (popular) passional of St Ivan Rilski (St John of Rila).

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