Young—The Harrowing of Hell. 
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more especially because the first eight lections of Matins are 
taken from a Sermo Eusebii Episcopi on the Harrowing of 
Hell. 1 
In the present article I am not prepared to discuss the 
possible relations of Sermons on the Harrowing of Hell to 
plays on the same subject either in the vernacular or in liturgi¬ 
cal Latin. In our present meagre information concerning the 
Harrowing of Hell theme in liturgical drama there is no evi¬ 
dence of the influence of sermons. The present text with 
its juxtaposition of Harrowing of Hell sermon and Quern 
quaeritis dramatic office may, perhaps, be an advance toward 
such evidence. The possible influence of sermons in the de¬ 
velopment of vernacular plays on the Harrowing of Hell has 
not yet been definitely studied. A most adequate stimulus 
for such a study was provided several years ago by Professor 
Hand in his well-known and indispensable article, Sermo de 
Confusione Diaboli. 2 When this study shall finally be under¬ 
taken, the modest text presented below may be of some serv¬ 
ice. 3 
1 On the identity of this Eusebius, and on the relation of his sermon 
or sermons to the Evangelium Nicodemi, see Rand, in Modern Philol¬ 
ogy, Vol. II (1904), pp. 262-3. For further references see Hulme, p. 
Lxiii. The text given below should be compared with Sermo clx, De 
Pascha, “consarcinatus ex Gregorii et Eusebii sententiis” (printed by 
Migne, Pat. lat., xxxix, 2059-2061), with which it agrees in part lit¬ 
erally. The version represented by Munich Cod. lat. 23037 is evi¬ 
dently the “homilia . . . Eusebii . . . longe prolixior” men¬ 
tioned by Migne, loc. cit., col. 2060, note 2. I have no knowledge as to 
the relation of my text to the two sermons of Eusebius printed by 
Migne, Pat. Graeca, Lxxxvi, col. 383 et seq. and nxii, col. 721 et seq. r 
which are represented by the Latin translation published by Rand, 
loc. cit., pp. 270-278. On the relation of the sermons of Eusebius to 
the Evangelium Nicodemi see also Migne, Pat. Graeca, Lxxxvi, col. 411- 
414. 
2 Modern Philology, Vol. II (1904), pp. 261-278. 
3 The study of the relation of sermons to drama was begun bril¬ 
liantly and fruitfully by Sepet in his Les Prophetes du Christ (BihMo- 
theque de VEcole des Chartes, Vols. xxviii, xxix, and xxxviii). 
The relation of sermons to plays on the Passion has been studied by 
Keppler (Historisches Jahrhuch, iii, 285-315, and iv, 161-188). The 
