Also famous on Chrysostom and the Pericope
William Trollope
https://www.christianforums.com/threads/william-trollope-1842-defends-john-8-1-11.7324471/
7. The supposed 'silence' of
Chrysostom has been cast in doubt by the fact that a 13th century monk appears to have known of a text by that author whereby he mentions the passage. We quote Wieland Willker's recent post in his Textual Criticism Blog:
Tommy Wasserman and Jennifer Knust (SBL 2008, via ETC blog) mention an interesting reference to Chrysostom:
"
Jacobus de Voragine, a thirteenth-century Dominican monk, scholar and author, serves as our final example. Preaching a sermon on the pericope on the third Saturday of Lent, he offered a list of by then traditional suggestions regarding what Jesus wrote: 'According to
Ambrose,' Jacobus reports, 'Jesus wrote, "terra terram accusat"; according to
Augustine, he wrote this [also] (i.e., terra terram accusat) and then, afterwards said to the woman "qui sine peccato est uestrum"; according to the
Glossa, Jesus wrote their sins (
'eorum pecccata' ); and, according to
John Chrysostom (who, as far as we know, never discussed the pericope adulterae), he wrote
'terra absorbe hos uiros abdicatos' ("Earth, swallow these men who have been disowned.")"
(
Sabbato Sermo 1.45-48)
