Select Works of S. Ephrem the Syrian: Translated Out of the Original Syriac, with Notes and Indices, Volum 56;Volum 525

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Pàgina 196 - Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man. 16 And yet if I judge, my judgment is true ; for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me. 17 It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true. 18 I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me.
Pàgina 84 - Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man seeking goodly pearls : who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
Pàgina 22 - Mother's bosom, in 4 below, jjis bosom were all creatures lying. He was silent* as a Babe, and yet He was making His creatures execute all His commands. For without the First-born no man can approach unto the Essence', to which He is equal. The thirty years that He was in the earth, who [else] was ordering all creatures, who [else] was receiving all the offerings of praise from those above and those below. He was wholly in the depths and wholly in the highest ' ! He
Pàgina 165 - Baptizing, we use the Name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost ; confessing the Christian faith, we declare our belief in the Father, and in the Son, and in the Holy Ghost ; ascribing glory unto God, we give it to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.
Pàgina 6 - Joyous were to-day the watchers, that the Wakeful came to wake us ! Who would pass this night in slumber, in which all the world was watching™ ? Since Adam brought into the world the sleep of death by sins, the Wakeful came down that He might awake us from the drenching sleep of sin.
Pàgina 115 - FOURTH. 1. A thousand thousands stand, ten thousand ten thousands run : thousands and ten thousands are not able to search into One : for all of them in silence stand to minister. He hath no assessor save the Son who is from Him : within the Silence' [alone] is there investigation into Him.
Pàgina 385 - He is substantially present every where: it is true of His condescension in taking our Human Nature into Himself: it is in this Nature that He goes and comes, inasmuch as having taken It, He took it with all its attributes, except such as sin had added to it. Thus St. Aust. on St. John 16, 28. " In such way when coming into the world did He go forth from the Father, as not to leave the Father, and in such way go to the Father when the world was relinquished by Him, as not to leave the world. He came...
Pàgina 196 - One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.
Pàgina 93 - Sheba' was a sheep * that had come into the place of wolves ; the lamp of truth did Solomon give her, who also married' her when he fell away. She was enlightened and went away, but they were dark as their manner was. The bright spark which went down home with that blessed [Queen], held on its shining amid the darkness, till the new Day-spring came.
Pàgina 95 - It lacketh not, since it is entirely perfect, and if a man would break thee to take a part from thee, thou art like the faith which with the heretics perishes, seeing they have broken it in pieces and spoiled it: for is it any better than this to have the faith scruti1 Compare St. Clement. Strom, v. cotton wick which men kindle from the §• 29. p. 663. Potter. ' The Philosophy sun, stealing the light with artist's skill.

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