Venerable
Venerable Hesychius of Jerusalem, Presbyter
2-я пол. IV века — †ок. 432-451
Venerable Hesychius, Presbyter of Jerusalem — a disciple of St. Gregory the Theologian, a 5th-century biblical exegete and homilist, author of extensive commentaries on Leviticus, Isaiah, and the Psalms, an active opponent of Nestorianism whose writings were cited at the Fifth Ecumenical Council.
Venerable Hesychius was born in Jerusalem and studied under St. Gregory the Theologian. After his teacher's death he took monastic vows and withdrew into the Palestinian desert. Around 412 he was ordained presbyter of the Jerusalem Church by its archbishop and became renowned as a preacher and "teacher of the Church." He wrote extensive commentaries on Scripture — a Commentary on Leviticus (preserved in Latin translation), several editions of a commentary on the Psalter, scholia on the prophet Isaiah, 24 homilies on the Book of Job (preserved in Armenian), and homilies on the Presentation, Pascha, in honor of the Theotokos, the holy Apostles Peter and Paul, and the raising of Lazarus. He was a resolute opponent of Nestorianism, holding to the Christology of St. Cyril of Alexandria (the formula "the Incarnate Word"); his anti-Nestorian writings against Theodore of Mopsuestia were cited at the Fifth Ecumenical Council (553). In church tradition he is venerated as a "second theologian" after his teacher, St. Gregory.