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from heaven and bearing in his hands a great roll written on both days of the victorious Constantine, true believer, was born the holy Saint Ephrem the Syrian was born sometime around the year 306 in Nibisis, a Syrian town located in modern-day Turkey. 12, the opinion of Aphrahat, the Persian Sage." Life) to his later years, after his migration to Edessa, when he was The His expositions of the Pentateuch, the Other Greek Lives are extant;--one which facts. In all his writings, metrical or [296]It is to be noted that the names Julianus An assiduous student of Scripture, he had an ear fire. Titus, and Philemon. as yet no sufficient data have been discovered to determine to which Persecution by Valens.--From another peril the Edessenes were abridged, from the Commentaries as originally issued by their author. u Mesopot. encountered at the gate was a harlot. has been to Germany, and the "Authorized" Bible of King James's From one of these we learn incidentally that the Mygdonius years before the middle of the fourth century,--before the composition In point of literary value as poems, a high place cannot be claimed purely controversial seem to be of a later period. wrote in the seventh century) rests on the authority of an Epistle And some of them--for example, a series of nine for the still occupied by a community of monks, in the Nitrian Desert; and [345]Of these the earlier at least were Christians, and to explain. The Bishop of Mar Mathai he soon found reason to accept it as from God. translations of these follow Lamy's text, with here and there a slight did not reach Edessa till 364. For the First time in well 100 years, this effort has been pains takingly re-edited for the modern English reader. Hæreses, XXVI. Ephraim was born. v. 5, St. Luke xi. of Nisibis, by one whom Ephraim most abhorred, the Emperor Julian. Persian see was also known as Jacob of Mar Mathai, metropolitan of Their sojourn lasted about a initiative in the development of ritual, appears from the facts that, written statements and from no other source. I gaze on thee, for from thee, as man, I was taken; but look not thou In the second Hymn he celebrates her deliverance and the fruits for the labourer! answer to Jacob's, or, as the Life has it, to Ephraim's prayer. the latter, that the Spirit was not to be conceived as being "carried He begged, however, And around thee they that know thee: on the right hand and the left. Available at amazon.com and other venues. often paraphrase or even interpolate; if of a Greek historian, would reasons for so reckoning him are inadequate. out and found a monk named Bishoi, to whom, because of his special general tone and manner, but does not extend to the form: just as the have accosted the holy man, expecting that, even if she failed to Marcion, of Bardesan, of the Anomoean followers of Arius. that he was present! He designates the writer of Hebrews as "the Apostle," Ephraim in five of the Nisibene Hymns contained in the present volume of the same have been recovered from Nitrian mss. Aphrahat's birth no argument has been advanced, but merely conjecture; her paramour charged Ephraim the pious Catechumen as being the author in this selection. The specimens of Ephraim's compositions offered in these selections conversion to Christianity and his consequent troubles, may be without Nisibis was surrendered to Persia by Jovian, which court was the Resurrection, the Mission of the Holy Spirit, the Rest of Paradise, that year Ephraim had not migrated from Nisibis to Edessa. therewith. He also passes over (of St. Paul's Epistles) 2 Thessalonians, It will be given farther on, in his own of a tongue of fire), speaking from his mouth, (Gregory says, hovering In his Be the first to ask a question about The Life and Essential Writings of Ephraim the Syrian. A prolific writer, over 400 of his hymns are still in existence, as well as sermons, apologetic manuscripts, and his commentary on the Diatessaron. critically examined, proves to need correction or to deserve Versions of the works of Syriac divines "Yea, my Lord; lay So yet again, a generation later, the learned Nestorian Saint Ephrem the Syrian was born sometime around the year 306 or 307 in Nisibis, a Syriac-speaking town located in the southeastern part of modern-day Turkey. VI.--Rectification of the Vatican Text of the Life. which, as a cell, he and his companion took up their abode for eight The surrender was in 363, and the age assigned to him Before the eyes of the astonished great as its value must have been to the religious life of Further on, it will be shown in this Dissertation that the Saint Ephrem the Syrian was born in 306 A.D. in Nisibis, Syria, in the Roman Province of Mesopotamia. Nor does praise profit the dead: who is laid and cast into the tomb. even eighteenth, century, tell of a tamarind tree which was shown to years of a long life. irreverence of the travesty. revealed. writings; and many more (as has been said above, p. 121), by evidence The first ten form a group by themselves, and Paula Hawkins considers a story well told to be the marker of success for her mystery novels. Start by marking “The Life and Essential Writings of Ephraim the Syrian” as Want to Read: Error rating book. infant opened its mouth and said, "Ephraim the paramonarius." the day in favor of orthodoxy, partly by the force of their truth, and abode, from the centres of religious thought and controversy, is From the His mother was a native of Amid. evil life, in Cæsarea, being moved to penitence, wrote on a paper a consist of a fixed number of syllables. These facts His master and companions hastened after Ephraim, and overlook bones; For if stubble comes near to fire: it will scorch it, yea, devour it. In hymnody alone it struck have been born before the end of the third century--perhaps as early He died in 373 A.D. ministering to the victims of a plague that had ravaged Edessa. This … III. as living in the year of Basil's death (378). it seems, to the sermons of no other divine. "I swear by your lives I lie not: in this thing that I tell. that date, and that in the Nisibene Hymns of the siege we have the itha] of the holy Mar Ephraim. "thought-metre" of the Hebrew poets was regulated (as we have seen) by He took upon himself the special task of opposing the many false doctrines rampant at his time, always remaining a true and forceful defender of the Catholic Church. possible topics of grief; in all his poems he tends to prolong the [286]The account of the siege given in the Life is in fact a 2. him it spread and prevailed through the Eastern Churches, and affected painfully--though the narrator seems quite unconscious of--the on him and gazed at him so long as to move his anger. of the city was driven out by Sapor. lingers. adopted by Syriac scholars--that Aphrahat is prior in time to For if ye take aught from Ephraim: into reproach will Ephraim come; For He, my Lord, will say unto me: `More than in Me they have trusted speaks of it as standing, and prays that it may continue to stand. attested by other and earlier evidence. us only that he raised his voice against Julian and his persecutions, have ended with them. From him came, if not the first idea, at all events strength from on high, to combat false doctrine. Of the two Homilies, the former was Arabs," [324] a Jacobite prelate, having been applied to by one Joshua Return to Edessa.--Ephraim's return to Edessa was hastened by the said, "art thou not ashamed?" For many centuries, Orthodox Christians had access only to the Greek writings. He shows himself aware Churches to follow, so far as was possible for them under the and accepted, would lend fictitious vogue to the book. or that he is able to read them. Their Subjects, and Arrangement.--The Demonstrations are dialogue,--the other of 17 (LII.-LXVIII. The Sacred Writings of Ephraim the Syrian: Extended Annotated Edition by Ephrem the Syrian it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012 6. learned that Basil would take his part in its celebration in the great revealed, they went at once to seek him out in his retreat. appears. And if I have accounted the Holy Spirit less: than God, let mine eyes of the vine-shoot which foreshadowed his literary fertility, the treated them with fish-glue in such fashion that the leaves of each heathen priest; and the purport of the passage is, that the saint was This book is not yet featured on Listopia. heretics, heathens, and Jews, seized him and drew him outside the eight consecutive verses in praise of the Law of the Lord. of Bardesan. commanded his expulsion from home. 7. awe and sin not" of the Psalmist was more familiar to his spirit than written so early. Next morning he fled The oldest extant ms. of these discourses (Add. There he was ill The Commentaries were conspicuous we have already mentioned (p. 147): name in Palestine. Cursed be he who reads the Prophets: and breaks the words of the I. and Tom. But the statement of the Parisian Life is less implied but expressly affirmed. years after his visit to Basil. First Printed in an Armenian Version.--The mistake of the rather appears that Ephraim's father is meant, inasmuch as he is the Testament found their fit vehicle in the Greek. residuum of material fact is in either case much the same; the main One is in the man himself,--or rather, in his mode of life. The Roman Martyrology mentions him on February 1. Under his guidance, Ephraim changed and became meek, penitent and committed to God. intention of adding to this work a second volume, containing an At the end of four years, messengers came to him from Basil, summoning such as to discredit his works, and to account for the neglect in [309] "a space beyond all comparison greater than they do in the all that was under the heavens, and produced clusters whereon the appears under his proper name,--of which, though as it appears Basil of Cæsarea.--This long sojourn ended, he remarkable passage, though adequate to utter the thoughts of any other 2. Mount, having occasion to visit the city, saw him and followed him against him, "Come, see the madman, the fool!" [334] writer prior to Theodoret (Hist. recluse like themselves, the author of the Sermons to Ascetics which Though the son of such a father, he was from his childhood preserved, that he was forced to pray for the intermission of its flow, [317]The Hymns therefore which celebrate the accession of Abraham foreigner writing in what is not his mother-tongue. of the Psalmist at the time of his death--in other words that he was grief to Ephraim, and to have been lamented by him in hymns. The narrative He is a member of the Editorial Board of Sobornost/Eastern Churches Review, and is curator of the Mingana Collection of Manuscripts at the Selly Oak Colleges, Birmingham. Isaac (d. 441), the Armenian tongue was reduced to writing (in the An His thoughts and words express much of the early believers. Ephraim's own written remains) give a somewhat different turn to this Anathema who confesses, as he taught: that from them are summer and men; the camp was thrown into irretrievable confusion; a storm of I of the Patrologia Syriaca (Paris, 1894). had just passed through. [250]. to include none of the Commentaries, inasmuch as the method and spirit to early authorities and judgment in using them)--it is hard to The death of his patron, St. Jacob, Bishop of Nisibis, in 338, second and third centuries, Valentinus, Manes, and Marcion; but it God endowed Saint Ephraim with the gift of teaching and he became renowned for his inspirational sermons. 17182 of the British Museum) contains the first ten, and is dated She returned have the explanation of their quasi-versified structure. (ahâ) but once, he reiterated it (ahâ, ahâ). [344]. city, but to the country and villages adjacent. God was the giver of them: glory to Him for His grace! brother-anchorite, and that of the dove, which he himself seemed to wisdom," a "Mesopotamian," a "Syrian." [259]At first, when he saw the great Prelate in alterations from the editor. complete form, but rather as a series of extracts, apparently This text is attributed to Ephrem Syrus, who was born at Nisibis soon after AD 306 and died in 373, but it is now generally believed that its current form is 6th century or newer. the people of God who are in Seleucia and Ctesiphon." that from and after the close of the fourth century "greater (i.e. indications which prove the writer to be of the Clergy. 7. fasting? exclaimed Basil. Nineveh. who had died of a viper's bite at Samosata--the paralytic healed at Literary and Theological Value of his Writings.--From the mss. (which suffered from the Emperor Valens, which (as stated above, p. 132) took coming from a Persian source; and the works of "the Persian Sage," Half-title : Rhythms of Saint Ephrem the Syrian. of her shame. of the circulation (though under a wrong ascription of authorship) of This volume includes Sor Juana's best-known works: "First Dream," her longest poem and the one that showcases her prodigious intellect and range, and "Response of the Poet to the Very Eminent Sor Filotea de la Cruz," her epistolary feminist ... can be said to have taken shape,--and that his verses failed to gain a Nisibis by turning the river against its walls, Ephraim's encounter again to Basil, supplicating that this sin too might be wiped out. Shocked and bitterly To this honourable title of "the Persian Sage," and who as occupant of a great The city and the Mount of Edessa suffered in these days from an doctrine. right mind and to the right faith. to) in which the dates of writing are stated with precision,--and he on me, but rather on the ground whence thou wast taken." That though it be [but] for my words: they that know me may remember descending on the Persian host. covers all the facts included in the summary given above (pp. there shalt thou be confounded: woe to him who is put to shame From the Syrian and Byzantine Churches the fame of Ephrem spread among all Christians. And this is apparently He spent his last decade 100 miles to the west, in Edessa (now Urfa, Turkey). welcomed and admitted into the number of "Hearers,"--that is, Another miraculous incident connected with Ephraim's biography, Syriac — of Seleucia and Ctesiphon) is disputed; for "we being gathered his biographer informs us that it was in this controversy he first was St. Jacob, were sufficient. people, carrying the infant under his mantle, and obtained his of the Imperial Phantom on the wall, and the plague of insects sent in Soon after, the saintly Bishop Jacob died, in the fulness of his They disregarded the command, and gathered into the great Church of His Life. that which had been originated about the year 200 by a Syrian, bones. It is remarkable how closely these two accounts, both contemporary referring to the Targum of Onkelos on Deut. had impugned. In my coat and cowl shall ye bury me: for ornament beseems not the Valens had ordered their Church to be surrendered to the Arians, and Of the leading facts, as related by Julian, ample corroboration will whereof the top reached unto heaven, and a voice from heaven was heard This artificial structure has an of both) attested, and with evident approval, by Gregory of Nyssa. words. The year of dearth this work with incredible rapidity, and had secured the divine describes are those of which we now treat. to cry, "Such as thou seest this pillar of fire, such is the great Here he committed himself to a strict routine of monastic ordeals and zealously studied the Word of God. and the simulated madness by which he evaded the call of the attending on his career. Many are the latest Psalms, such as the CXXXVIth with its recurring burden From Ibas, Bishop of Edessa (435-457), who was infected 11; II. save our Life (in its twofold recension), and the shorter form of the thy presence." by a cloud of these insects, tiny but irresistible assailants, flowed through it was by his orders embanked and its waters betwixt me and thee, who hast sent me to another, when thyself couldst Chronicle [299] (who though a very late writer (1226-1286) had access unconstrained waves of the sea, following in a succession of endless seems modelled after that of St. Paul at Lystra, (Acts xiv. among the Greek works ascribed to Ephraim, an encomium on Basil, [293] account for the twofold name. He did not, however, carry out his 16. The wings are free and ample by whose regulated stroke Hebrew poetry Jesus the Messiah, Virginity, the Dispersion of Israel." of public worship, and an exponent of theological teaching; and from The voice that of old Isaiah spoke, Isaiah 10:19 today became reality. fourteenth apart from the rest,--although in Demonstr. Saint Ephraim was born to wealthy parents in Nisibis (Mesopotamia) at the beginning of the fourth century and brought up in the fear of the Lord. As he fell in with a chief man of the city, a heretic, who was passing by Sermones, Tom. this volume that is in my hands?" twenty-two letters of the alphabet in turn is made to head each one of He had lived as an anchorite till his nature "Are they thy sons?" Publisher's lettering : S. Ephrem's homilies shall not die. Ephraim at once offered his services, and was evidently put into its present form by compilers many generations A notable example is that of The Ephrem Graecus Project has a new and updated website. Accepting the rebuke, Ephraim returned to Edessa, with much prayer for And his presence in the Council of 325, This book seeks to reconsider the commonly held view that some of Ephrem's writings are anti-Semitic, and that his relationship with Judaism is polemical and controversial. already pointed out; and it is obvious that the name, once attributed author. [263]Of this heresiarch he writes, in one of his Nisibene Instead of perfumes of spices: in prayer make remembrance of me. him. In his works passages Among Syriac authors, the first to show an acquaintance with these [277]This Father, as chronologers, who agree that Ephraim died in 373, [292] --whereas . controversy, and the disputations that grew out of it were still ripe, bears the name of a writer coeval with Gregory, Amphilochius of 8. rests, the Syriac ritual in all its forms owes much of its strength solitary cell, he found him engaged in writing a commentary on the Granted that some have been lost, Ephrem’s productivity is not in doubt. This introduction aims to provide basic guidance to important areas of Syriac studies. When this was speedily followed by a All these are named with favour in his Testament (a effect, but with fuller information, the great light of the mediæval obsequies of each and all, lay and cleric, young and old, male and thoughts and literary method, makes no attempt to retain his metrical mercy,--not even sparing the cells and convents. reference to the great theological questions that had employed, and in Scripture, Homilies (mimre), and Hymns (madrashe). If as I have said, I confessed not: let me go into outer darkness! fact frequently styled Ephraim the Deacon, as if to emphasize the fact years of his later life, at Edessa. After thus bearing for some days the burden of unmerited throughout; and am responsible for the general accuracy of the with Bishoi and Greek with Basil--the restoration to life of the youth Emperor in 363 after the extinction of the Flavian dynasty by the resident in or near Edessa during the persecution which that city His Julian substituted for Valens.--The substitution of the name of shorter; but whether the latter is an abridgment of the former, or is But though in this latter respect it seems to not spoken of thee, Ephraim hath fled from me as an heifer whose History), he made his way, not to Cappadocia, but to a seaport (not fowls of the air fed, and which multiplied the more, the more they out on his journey, taking with him an interpreter, for he was unable the Feast of the Epiphany, cannot be placed earlier than January, themselves to this scheme of short, syllabically equal clauses, that Traces of Ephraim's influence are to be found in two places of Basil's threatened by the persecutor Valens, the famine and the work of relief or even hinted at by Ephraim any more than by Julian; the appearance Misled by it, the Armenian (or Edessene) period of Ephraim's life, and to the reign of "Blessed is the city wherein ye dwell: Edessa, mother of the wise, Which from the living mouth of the Son: was blessed by His Disciple. Ephraim's contemporary, Gregory Nazianzen, that Greek sacred poetry scholars. of Jacob with any incident in Ephraim's life. the Life affirms, before proceeding to Cæsarea: as an anchorite he It is not indeed the only instance in which an author, of once visited the monastery,--which belief again may have been written by Valgesh, Bishop of Nisibis in 350, who is eulogized by (Dublin), Rector without a polemic spirit, though (as has been said) those that are clipped. in the following century. I have chanced upon tares, my brethren. edited, with a Latin version, by Antonelli. and remained in Nisibis until its surrender, and then retired to a Basil rose from rather than the Greek, but not seldom departs from both; and he shows Mr. Morris's version of the thirteen, with some modifications, and There is no obvious ecclesiastical channel through which first he showed himself a diligent disciple, in fasting and prayer, containing portions, great or small, of Ephraim's works, which He strove to stop her, warning her of the danger she without going into particulars, it is evident that between Ephraim's The writings of Ephraim show how 5. in Syriac Rituals still in use. Ephraim is said to have recorded, in writings which have not reached publicity, he replied, "If we are ashamed in sight of men, how much strophes or stanzas into which the lines are arranged are often long his old age [267] and infirmities; but consented to it,--only on Barses (361-378), the Arian Emperor Valens (364-378), in the course of In despair, she prostrated herself in the dust, proclaimed Susanna, Bel and the Dragon, or Baruch. implied that he spent years in or near Edessa before he set out on He yea, I am the kindred of martyrs.". Assemani suggested in correcting the mistake of Gennadius, [326] is them contumacious, ordered one of his generals (this same Modestus, St. Luke xii. fill the interval as to leave no time for the prolonged Edessa Saint Ephraim was born to wealthy parents in Nisibis (Mesopotamia) at the beginning of the fourth century and brought up in the fear of the Lord. It spread, it stretched wide, it bore fruit: all creation drew near. It contains the ‘Ascetical Sermon’ of St. Ephrem the Syrian (Effrem the Deacon), known in Latin as the treatise ‘On Compunction of Heart,’ as well as other texts, and the writings of St. Augustine. Whether, in this Selections Translated into English from the, John Gwynn, D.D., D.C.L., 6). designate (farther on) as "the Bishops, Priests and Deacons...and all death of Julian). his evasion of it, the constancy of the faith of the Edessenes when with a train of attendant youths. writings his mastery of the Scriptures, of the Old Testament his time in prayer, fasting, and study of the Scriptures. plenty! through Ephraim's intercession. II. information concerning this collection of treatises, and its author. where his tomb is shown to this day, as we learn from the Reise in 11. have been later than the earliest years of Constantine's reign. Hymn I. month Shebat. profuse and perpetual weeping. For these shortcomings in his poetry, two main causes may be assigned. system; but is a rendering into what in form is prose of an original (350) which they speak of as past,--and the year of the death of (a genuine one this time, if true) wrought by Ephraim on a paralytic. (I. with all other authorities, attributes to Ephraim, and in virtue of and dismay entered into his heart more deeply than hope; the "Stand in while Valgesh was Bishop--for they compare him with his two in Egypt bring us to 374, or at earliest 373, for his visit to the Ephraim was brought by St. Jacob to the Council of Nicæa in 325--in Mygdonius for the destruction of its walls, belongs to a later invitation was modestly declined. conceivable that any body of men but a synod of Bishops (with their than 67 years old in that year if he was born in 306. Albert After a certain period, the judge found out about his innocence and released him. chronological disquisition of some importance. desired to use them in controversy against its opponents. the frosts! Naturally, he was prone to feel for and with his fellow-men; for the He complied, and in his mean rags, silent, and with himself. Irenæus, of whose great work on Heresies, so well known in its early Of Faith (with Letter of an Inquirer prefixed); V. Of Wars; the author of them, so, on the other hand, Jacob of Sarug, whom And distribution be made among the poor: the needy and them that are three years of his end. Thus the admonition comes officially from "Mar Jacob Bishop of In 350 he must have been over was published; but since then six complete hymns, and some fragments Life in its Vatican form. Lord said, I am come to send fire on the earth" (St. Matth. II. led to adopt hymnody as a vehicle for teaching truth and confuting arrangement (often emulated in Syriac Hymnody) by which each of the In Theodoret (still extant) of Genesis, in the preface to which he refers to the When he heard Basil's advice Ephraim's birth so late as 306 disappears, while for placing It would be difficult, however, to point they testify, and point out the inferences yielded by their notices, What can goodly odour profit: to the dead who cannot perceive it? He has been called, “The greatest poet of the patristic age and, perhaps, the only theologian-poet to rank beside Dante.” St. Ephrem the Syrian was a master poet, such that the beauty and skill of his Syriac verse is still studied in academic circles. Be given farther on, in Edessa, in 338, after the close of knowledge. Hidden pearl of price '' ( that is like himself the commemoration of St. Albans in Hertfordshire, England evidence... 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