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VYSENS 'KYJ'S ШЕЛ OF REFORM 43philology" 24(i.e., concern with the reliability of the authoritative texts ofChristendom) and church order (in particular, the metical doctrine of ahierarchical church granting a special role to the clergy and viewing theepiscopacy as the full exercise of the priesthood), themes which are essentialcomponents of the reformist ideology expressed by Protestants, Catholics,and Orthodox polemicists alike in the sixteenth and early seventeenthcenturies and which are also of paramount importance for the present study.** *In 1614 the Lviv Confraternity published a volume—traditionally referredto with the abbreviated title Book on the Priesthood 15 —which offered toRuthenian readers a Slavic version of John Chrysostom's most celebratedwork, On the Priesthood. 26Yet, as indicated in the title to the Slavic text,the volume contained not only a translation of Chrysostom's treatise on thepriesthood, in six books, 27 but also other writings "necessary for the generalbenefit of readers." 28These included not only information on the saint'slife, by such "authorities" as Socrates Scholasticus, Theodoret, bishop ofP. Kristeller, "Paganism and Christianity," in his Renaissance Thought. The Classic, Scholastic,24and Humanist Strains (New York, 1961), p. 79. See D. Frick, Sacred Philology in theReformation and the Counter-Reformation, University of California Publications in ModernPhilology, 123 (Berkeley, 1989), esp. pp. 1 -11.25"íze ν svjatyx otea naseho Ioanna Zlatoustaho, arxiepiskopa Konstantinupolja. Kniha оsvjaScen"stvî V Lvovî. Z drukarni bratskoj Stavropihia ν obiteli svjatoho Onufria trudomiźe kinoviatov, ieromonaxa Pafnutia і ргобіх, roku 1614" (fol. I 1 )- (Hereafter the Kniha оsvjaicen" stvî is cited as KS.) For a description of the book's contents, see Ja. Zapasko and Ja.Isajevyï, Pam'jatky knyíkovoho mystectva. Kataloh starodrukiv, vydanyx, na Ukrajini, Knyhapersa (1574-1700) (Lviv, 1981), pp. 97-98. A copy of KS is located in the Thomas FisherRare Book Library of the University of Toronto (Millennium Ukrainian Collection, no. 1). Fora plate of the title page, essentials of the title, and the marginalia in the Toronto copy, seeE. Kasinec and B. Struminskyj, The Millennium Collection of Old Ukrainian Boob at theUniversity of Toronto Library. A Catalogue (Toronto, 1984), pp. 1-2.1 wish to acknowledgemy gratitude to the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library for allowing me access to the volume.26De sacerdotio (PG XLVHI, 623-92). This work was written around A.D. 382, that is, duringthe saint's deaconate and before his ordination as priest in A.D. 386. As Ladner notes, the sixbooks of On the Priesthood "strike the key note of [Chrysostom's] life as a great priestly oratorand preacher in Antioch and as a reforming Patriarch of Constantinople" (The Idea of Reform,p. 126).27"He ν svjatyx otea naseho Ioanna arxiepiskopa Konstantina hrada Zlatoustaho, νuvahajuscim eie bfêati SvjaSćen"stva otvîacatelno. O svjaScen"stvî" (KS, pp. 1 -210).28"К nej źe v'kratcî s"brannoe źitie svjatoho i procaja nuźdnaa ν obśćuju polzuproätatelem,..." (KS, fol. V). It appears that the Book on the Priesthood is not based on anexisting Greek collection but represents independent selections from collections containingChrysostom's works and "authorities" on his life. As regards possible sources for the volume,it goes without saying that one should examine not only the Greek and Slavic manuscript traditions,but also the printed editions produced in the West by humanists or humanistically trainedtheologians.