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Ephrem the Syrian · translated by J. B. Morris · 4th century; translation 1847

Ephrem's hymns and rhythms on the faith, the Nativity and the Church, from the Oxford Library of the Fathers: the great poet-theologian of Syriac Christianity.

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From the opening: Rhythm the Second

Blessed be that Child, that gladdened Bethlehem to-day!

Blessed be the Babe that made manhood young again top.2.n.d. day! Blessed be the Fruit*, that lowered Himself to our

p. 13. n. fjjjjjigijgj state! Blessed be the G ood One, who suddenly

enriched our necessitousness and sujaplied our needs! Blessed

He whose tender mercies made Him condescend to visit

our infirmities! Praise to the Fountain that was sent*" for

our propitiation. Praise too to Him that undid the Sabbath

by fulfilling it! Praise be to Him that rebuked the leprosy

and it remained not, whom the fever saw and fled! Praise

to the Merciful, who bore our toil! Glory to Thy coming,

which quickened the sons of men! Glory to Him, who came

to us by His First-born! Glory to the Silence, who spake by

His Voice Glory to the One on high, who was seen by

His Day-spring! Glory to the Spiritual, who was pleased to

have a Body, that in it His virtue might be felt, and He

p. 19. n. might by that Body shew mercy on His household's bodies!

j^'(jy* ' Glory to that Hidden One, whose Son was made manifest!

Scrut.x. Glory to that Living One, whose Son was made to die! Glory

adv. to that Great One, whose Son descended and was small!

Scrut.

* This is a mystical name of the nual abstinence from the wearying toil Messiah which St. E. very often of sin. Their doctrine on this subject is uses, and is perhaps taken from Is. compendiously stated in what Jus- 37, 31. Ps. 72, 16. Ezech. 47, 12. [If tin M. says to Trypho the Jew, c. 12. good men are spoken of as trees yield- " The new Law willeth us to keep coning fruit, it is in so far as they have tinual Sabbath: but ye by idling one Christ in them, and shew His presence day fancy ye are religious." by their deeds.] <= This name is given by St. E.

t' There is perhaps an allusion here to the Father, to suggest to the mind

to the pool of Siloam, which comes from that there was a period when the Faf.e root employed in the original. S. ther had not begun to work by His

Vers, makes the pool ' a baptistery.' St. Word. It must not be confounded with

Austin, de Doc. Christian. 2. 16. the heretical notion that Sige and Lopoints out the importance of the in- gos (silence and word) coexisted in

terpretation given by the Evangelist: one Pleroma; S. Iren. ii, 12, 3; but

and the term 'ATaffroXos is applied is rather to be paralleled with those exto Christ, Heb. 3, 1. The next words pressions in the Psalms, (be…

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Contents (116 sections)

  1. Opening
  2. Title page
  3. Title page (continued)
  4. Preface
  5. Saint Ephrem the Syrian
  6. Rhythm the First
  7. Rhythm the Second
  8. Rhythm the Third
  9. Rhythm the Fourth
  10. Rhythm the Fifth
  11. Rhythm the Sixth
  12. Rhythm the Seventh
  13. Rhythm the Eighth
  14. Rhythm the Ninth
  15. Rhythm the Tenth
  16. Rhythm the Eleventh
  17. Rhythm the Eleventh (continued)
  18. Rhythm the Twelfth
  19. Rhythm the Thirteenth
  20. Delivered upon Palm Sunday
  21. Delivered upon Palm Sunday (continued)
  22. Delivered upon Palm Sunday (continued)
  23. Rhythm the Second
  24. Rhythm the Third
  25. Rhythm the Fourth
  26. Rhythm the Fifth
  27. Rhythm the Sixth
  28. Rhythm the Seventh
  29. Upon the Faith, against the Disputers
  30. Rhythm the Second
  31. Rhythm the Third
  32. Rhythm the Fourth
  33. Rhythm the Fifth
  34. Rhythm the Sixth
  35. Rhythm the Eighth
  36. Rhythm the Ninth
  37. Rhythm the Tenth
  38. Rhythm the Eleventh
  39. Rhythm the Twelfth
  40. Rhythm the Thirteenth
  41. Rhythm the Fourteenth
  42. Rhythm the Fifteenth
  43. Rhythm the Sixteenth
  44. Rhythm the Seventeenth
  45. Rhythm the Eighteenth
  46. Rhythm the Nineteenth
  47. Rhythm the Twentieth
  48. Rhythm the Twenty-First
  49. Rhythm the Twenty-Second
  50. Rhythm the Twenty-Third
  51. Rhythm the Twenty-Fourth
  52. Rhythm the Twenty-Fifth
  53. Rhythm the Twenty-Sixth
  54. Rhythm the Twenty-Seventh
  55. Rhythm the Twenty-Eighth
  56. Rhythm the Twenty-Ninth
  57. Rhythm the Thirtieth
  58. Rhythm the Thirty-First
  59. Rhythm the Thirty-Second
  60. Rhythm the Thirty-Third
  61. Rhythm the Thirty-Fourth
  62. Rhythm the Thirty-Fifth
  63. Rhythm the Thirty-Sixth
  64. Rhythm the Thirty-Seventh
  65. Rhythm the Thirty-Eighth
  66. Rhythm the Thirty-Ninth
  67. Rhythm the Fortieth
  68. Rhythm the Forty-First
  69. Rhythm the Forty-Second
  70. Rhythm the Forty-Third
  71. Rhythm the Forty-Fourth
  72. Rhythm the Forty-Fifth
  73. Rhythm the Forty-Sixth
  74. Rhythm the Forty-Seventh
  75. Rhythm the Forty-Eighth
  76. Rhythm the Fiftieth
  77. Rhythm the Fifty-First
  78. Rhythm the Fifty-Second
  79. Rhythm the Fifty-Third
  80. Rhythm the Fifty-Fourth
  81. Rhythm the Fifty-Fifth
  82. Rhythm the Fifty-Sixth
  83. Rhythm the Fifty-Seventh
  84. Rhythm the Fifty-Eighth
  85. Rhythm the Fifty-Ninth
  86. Rhythm the Sixtieth
  87. Rhythm the Sixty-First
  88. Rhythm the Sixty-Second
  89. Rhythm the Sixty-Third
  90. Rhythm the Sixty-Fourth
  91. Rhythm the Sixty-Fifth
  92. Rhythm the Sixty-Sixth
  93. Rhythm the Sixty-Seventh
  94. Rhythm the Sixty-Eighth
  95. Rhythm the Sixty-Ninth
  96. Rhythm the Seventieth
  97. Rhythm the Seventy-First
  98. Rhythm the Seventy-Second
  99. Rhythm the Seventy-Third
  100. Rhythm the Seventy-Fourth
  101. Rhythm the Seventy-Fifth
  102. Rhythm the Seventy-Sixth
  103. Rhythm the Seventy-Seventh
  104. Rhythm the Seventy-Eighth
  105. Rhythm the Seventy-Ninth
  106. Rhythm the Eightieth
  107. Three Rhythms concerning the Faith
  108. Rhythm the First
  109. Rhythm the First (continued)
  110. Rhythm the First (continued)
  111. Rhythm the Second
  112. Rhythm the Third
  113. Rhythm the Third (continued)
  114. Additions and Corrections
  115. Additions and Corrections (continued)
  116. D (continued)

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