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PATROLOGIA ORIENTALIS TOMUS DECIMUS SEPTIMUS
I.
_
E.
W. BROOKS.
John of Ephesus. Lives of the Eastern Saints II.
_
S.
E. Ms'
PETIT.
L.
ÖOCUMENTS RELATIFS AU CONCILE DE FLORENCE. yii-xxiv III.
—
:
(1).
DoClinieiltS
QEuvres aiiticonciliaires de Marc d'Ephese.
RENE BASSET. Le Synaxaire auabe jacobite. V. Les mois de Baounah, Abib, Mesore
IV.
_
S.
et
jours comp leinen faires.
GREBAUT.
Les Miracles de Jesus. Miene les xxi-xxx.
FIRMIN-D1DOT ET
PARIS IMPRIMEURS-EDITEURS
C",
LIBRAIRIE DE PARIS, 56,
1923
RUE JACOB
Go
JOHN OF EPHESUS THE
OF
LIVES
SYRIAC
EASTERN SAINTS
TEXT EDITED AND TRANSLATED
BY E.
PATR. OR.
—
T. XVII.
—
F.
1.
W. BROOKS
Nihil obstat. Parisiis,
R.
die i" maii 1923.
GRAFFIN.
PERMIS
D'IMPRIMER
Paris, le 1
er
.1.
mai 1923.
LAPALME, v. gen.
INTRODUCTION
was hardly known except from
Until 1853 the narae of John of Ephesus
scattered
extracts from
references in
Dionysius and other
so-called
the
rd part of his Eccleauthors published by Assemani; but in that year the 3
siastical
History
followed by
J.
was published
ischer Kirchenhistoriker (Leiden,
was published
Cureton's text
German
translation by
Beatis Orientalibas
de
J.
W.
Oxford by
at
at
v.
Ephesos der J stB syr-
1860 an English translation of
In
1856).
Oxford by R. Payne Smith, and
M. Schönfelder
at
in
1862 a
Munich. Finally the Commentarii
and fragments of the
History appeared in tom.
Cureton, and this was soon
pamphlet Johannes Bischof
P. N. Land's
2'" 1
part of the
Ecclesiastical
of Land's Anecdota Syriaca at Leiden in 1868,
II
and a Latin translation of the same by van Douwen and Land was published at
Amsterdam
Since that time however two works have appeared
in 18S9.
which are invaluable
for the
purpose of enabling us to Supplement John's
published works and correct his text, M. Nau's analysis of the 2 the history from the so-called Dionysius in/}. O.G., the
first
1899,
two volumes
1901)
\ and
Duchesne
L.
work
the shade by the great in
M. Chabot's edition
p.
part of
455, (1897), and
of Michael the
Syrian (Paris,
2 Other studies of our author* have been published by Land
'.
H. G. Kleyn
of
II,
nd
'
of A.
but
;
all
these have
now been thrown
,
into
Dyakonov, Ioann Efesskiy (Petrograd, 1908), a critical aceount of John's life and
which 402 pages are occupied by
works, and
use
füll
and Michael.
In
chronology of bis
is
made
life
new
and of the
an almost insoluble puzzle 1.
of the
Information derived from 'Dionysius'
consequence of John's careless methods of writing the
;
and
it is
facts
which he records appeared
not the least of Dyakonov's
many
to be
merits
Some fragments are also preserved by Elijah of Nisibis (C. S. C. 0., a 2. De gedenkschrißen c. een Monoph. uit de 6 ° eeuw (K. Ak. v.
tom. VII, VIII).
—
le Reeks, Dl. v, Verslagen en Mededeelingen; Afd. Letterkunde, 3 3. Een buk of het godsdienstig leven in de oostersche Kerk Amsterdam, 1888). d. 6 ie eeuw (Theol. Studien, VII, p. 229. Utrecht, 1889); Bijdrage tot de Kerkgeschiedeniss v. het Oosten gedurende d. 6da eeutv {Festbundel aan M. J. De Goeje. Leiden, 1891). 4. Jean dAsie. Memoire lu devant les 5 Academies le 25 oct. 1802 {Journ. Ofpciel, n" 299, p. 5200). I take this ref. from Dyakonov, but cannot find the
Wetenschappen,
—
p. 237.
—
work.
'
INTRÖDUCTION.
|V
L'vJ
of the ^ hole subject he has succeeded in tl.at by a laborious investigation In a few places I am obliged to differ from bringing order out of cliaos. upon bis work (I have not him; but in general mv chronology is based bis name every time), mentioning by space to'oceupy thought il necessary the necessity of attempting spared been have to indeed thankful am and what seemed to be an impossible task. was born about 507 of Kphesus (so called from bis titular bishopric) I
John
for ecclesiastical purposes
which
neighbouring monastery of the
in the
Maro's
15, after
deatli,
he
stylite
moved
Armenia IV,
as
the province of Mesopo-
was united with
tamia of which the capital was Amida, and
age of
known
afterwards
in the territory of Ingila in the territory
the age of 3 or 4
at
Maro
was placed At the
Ar'a Rabtha\
at
monastery founded by John
to the
during the ürtaya at Amida', the mtfnks of which, having been expelled Mama persecution of521, were then residing in the deserted monastery of
The archimandrite Häzim, where they remained 5 years, i. e. tili 526 \ eh. given in 58 seems to have at this time was Sergius', who from the dates 7 in 522/3 placed be may migration died in 523«, so (hat the author's at
.
Aller other wanderings the monks were tinian to return to
8
Amida
precedmg year John had been ordained
In the
.
end of 530 allowed by Jus-
at the
deacon by the exiled bishop John of Thella (Constantina) \ The quiet life and he frequently in the monastery seems however not to have suited him, hermits; in 532 celebrated and monasteries other travelled about to visit he aecompanied bis friends Thomas and Stephen to Antioch "\ and in 534 undertook a journey to Egypt, and in 535 visited Constantinople ". At the end of 536 or beginning of 537 the patriarch Ephraim of Antioch followed up the final condemnation of the Monophysites at the synod of 536 by a 'descent In
the Käst',
when
Thuthe
to Thella d
the
W.
region lying
in the
of
they were drite 1.
seems 4. Cli.
.iiel
—
5.
Cli. 58.
'Zach. Uli.', vui,
mixed Syrian and Armenian populaüon; but lngilene
a
ä.
—9.
Dyakonov,
6.
They were
Cli. 24.
p. 28, n.
1G0).
p'its the
Egyptian journey
10.
-
in
in exile I'.
207.
—
2. P. 64.
p. 38, n. äl. i>:
—
1
yrs. 1.
I'.
-
3. 1'.
- 7.
See
and returned 209 seen.
1),
84; see also eh. 51. p. 83, n. in Ind.
211.
535, but himsclf notefe that, since there
see Byz. Zeitschr., XII.
13.
p.
p.
294; 'Zach. Rh.',
Ch. 35;
cf.
eh. 58
it
49), \,
l
;
and Land,
must have been before that time. Vit.
Monoph.
p. 295.
C
S.
('.
(>.,
tom.
—8.
Gh. 35;
IX (Dyakonov,
Dyakonov is
(7
— 12.
XXV
(p. 47)
no mention of
the ecclesiastical revolution that followed the patriarch Timothy's dealh
Land,
this time
the
•">:>'.)
have been predominantly Syrian.
:i.">.
and
let alone,
bulkofthem, headed by the archimanincluding onr author, came to the territory of Claudias on
This was inhabited by to
the extreme limit of the
at
Hut there also they were not
dispersed; hui in
Abba
.
Amida, and on being expelled
thenee came to the monastery of the Poplars
Amideiie territory ".
They then removed
2
monks were again expelled
Feh. 535;
Gh. 35, 58;
(11),
p. 65,
-
INTRODUCTIOX.
[vj
the Euphrates
Thence
1
.
to Constantinople about
manently returned.
540 John, perhaps following Abba,
in
removed
time,
tliis
made
In 541 he
went
the autnrnn of the year he
v
a second journey to Egypt,
beginning-, and thence to Mesopotamia, and
The date
Constantinople. topolis
fixed
is
performing ordinations
in
by
Asia Minor
dore were appointed for that purpose In 542 John
pagans
in
donian
was
in
just
returned through Syria to
that he
tlie fact
and
where the plague was
Palestine,
to
iled
-\vlio
and never per-
to the capital,
3
for in
,
met John
Hephaes-
of
542 James and Theo-
'.
selected by the emperor for the task of Converting the
Asia on condition that he should convert them to the Chalce-
faifch
8
Probably however he did not wholly neglect the oppor-
.
when James Burd'ana passed
tunity for propagating Monophysitism, for,
Among these was John was made bishop of Ephesus, the metropolis of Asia 6 whence he is often called 'John of Asia'. The date of bis consecration may be gathered from the fact that he was consecrated at almost the same time as Kashish of Ghios 8 who, having begun travelling with John, continued to travel for 13 years, and then lived 5 years in Chios before being made bishop Now the travelling must apparently have begun between 540, through Asia Minor, he consecrated seven bishops. himself, wlio
,
,
7
.
when John
monastery, and 542,
left his 8
the pagans
,
and
when he undertook
this brings the consecration to 558-60,
bably be fixed to 558
9
He was
.
still
and
the mission to
should pro-
it
a deacon in 541, for he officiated as
such at the ordinations perl'ormed by John of Hephaestopolis, and the date of his presbyterate
is
unknown.
There
is
nothing
to
show
that he ever
resided at Ephesus; and after the death of the patriarch Theodosius in 566
he became the acknowledged head of the Monophysites
Constantinople,
in
where many Syrians had taken refuge under the protection Theodora and tinian,
of the
empress
her death (548) continued to enjoy the favour of Jus-
after
who encouraged them
to
come
he might
to the capital in Order that
10
bring pressure to bear upon them for the purpose of eifecting a union leave the Monophysites in Syria without leaders.
and
In this objeet he failed;
and, though his successor by using more violent measures effected a tem-
porary union (571)",
it
Ch. 58; see
loc.
1.
p. 62).
—
konov
(p. 81)
5.
n.
is
ad
supposes
It
it
Land,
C,
II,
—
11.
—
GP.,
310.
p.
p. 482.
is
H. E.,
was
in
that 540,
J.
the
—
--
have begun between
may be added to
See ch. 25.
to
that he
monastery and went 10.
2.
he does not note that
no evidence
on ch. 50.
—
Mich., p. 287; H. 0.
tion to 555-8; but
There
n.
was repudiated by
3. 0.
537"
eastern Monophysites, and
Ch. 25.
Ch. 50.
— —
Ch. 50 (Dyakonov,
4. 7.
and 540, and
Ch. 51.
— 8.
fixes the
states that the travelling
was
in
the
West between 535 and 540. when J. (and probably Kashish also)
the
Dya-
consecra-
-
West. 9.
See
left
the
the most likely time for the travelling to have begun. I,
24.
INTRODUCTION.
v,
the division between East and
which John
West
eventually led to a scliism (575)
found on the opposite side to
is
however did not
last
[vi]
liis
'
in
The union
hero James'.
even in Constantinople, and the Monophysites suffered His history ends in 585, and
frequent persecutions as long as John lived.
3 but with he probably died in 586 after a year spent in prison at Chalcedon the last 18 years of his life, which fall after the completion of the Lives of ;
Eastem
Ihr
we have
Saints,
For the
concern.
little
first
two years
of his
residence in Constantinople (540-2) he lived in the house of the patrician Probus 4 nephew of the emperor Anastasius, and after this, wheri he was in ,
were perhaps for a time in the palace of Ilormisda, 3 where many of the refugees were settled under the protection of Theodora " the in who Callinicus, chamberlain 546 542 and but at some time between 8 565 held the office of praep. sacri cubicuW, gave him a villa at Sycae (prothe capital, his quarters
;
bably that previously occupied by Mare the solitary,
which he turned
into a
monastery known as
which he was archimandrite
of
578
it
was
,0 ,
and
'
the monastery of the Syrians
was
this
died in 542/3) 9
who
',
his head-quarters until in
confiscated by the patriarch Eutychius".
His earliest work was a history of the persecntion, which was probably written in 537
and does not now
,2 ,
an account of the plague of 541/2
He
exist.
,3
but
;
it is
Both
published as an independent work.
also wrote, probably in 544,
not certain that this
was ever
were doubtlessly incor-
of these
porated in the Ecclesiastical History, which extended from the time of Julius
Caesar to 595, and was divided into three parts
came down
we
to the time of
liave only citations in
Theodosius
of
a defence addressed to the
it
may
Eastem Synod
of 571 and written not later tlian 575
16 .
it
is
first
probably
Of part
1
more conveniently
be possible to restore
Another work, now in the
matter of the union
the
ways of
life
of the blessed
Eastem Saints'",
called, Lives of the
—
- 2. Cli. 49.
it
lost,
There remains the most charac-
works, the Histories concerning
teristic of all his
which the
'\ and the second to 571.
II
Part 3 exists almost complete.
almost entirely.
Easterns, or, as
',
Michael; but of part 2 large fragments exist, and
with the help of 'Dionysius' and Michael
was
'
—
—
3. Mich., p. 364 (Dyakonov, p. 165). 4. P. 157. by the fact that Leontius, who died before the Lives were wrilten (566 lived 20 years in the monastery (eh. 39). Dyakonov (p. 86), appy. confusing him with Aaron (ch. 38), makes him die in 560, and therefore throws back the origin of the monastery to Mare's lifetime. See n. at end of ch. 36. 7. Corippus, /.uns Justin/, i, 75 ff. For the site see p. 298, n. 2. 8. //• E\, ii, 41. 9. Ch. 36 and, for the namc, p. 187, n. 1. (see tit. 10. P. 298, ch. 36 init. 38, 39, 40, 41, 51- 11. //. /.'.. / c. 12. Seech. 35, 2'"' note. 13. Land, p. 325 (Dyakonov, p. 168). /•'.,
1. //.
5.
Ch. 47.
—
iv.
6.
1.;.
The date
is
fixed
,
—
—
—
—
,
,
—
most likely that he would end part 1 at where Socrates and Theodoret end, but the evidenee adduced by Dyakonov 179 is to me unconvincing. Dyakonov, ]). 169). 16. //. /•„'., n, 6 17. Lives is
l't.
//.
.'•.'.,
i,
.!;
Mich., p. 377.
15.
It is
the point p.
the easiest designation; bul
—
many
are only detached aneedotes.
•
;
INTRODUCTION.
[vn]
vn
58 short lives or stories of hcrmits and others with whom the author was contempprary, after the style of Palladius and Theodoret, but containing more ofthe personal element, and including lives not only of obscure ascetics but also of
men who played
chapters on
a part in history
Monophysite
besides a few more general
'
2
This seems to have 566 \ and amplilied in 567 \ and again in 568*. We have one ms. only which contained the whole work (1) Brit. Mus. Add. 14647 (A), written in 688 in a good estrangelo hand. This ms. consists of 20 quires in
life
been written
circles in bis time
.
in
:
of (normally) 10 leaves each, the
sl
l
being marked with the number of
leaf
the quire in estrangelo, and the next four with the letters
o, u
and
;,
,
oi
the last five leaves, being the other halves of the folded sheets, needed no
There are lacunae
numeration.
after
no numeral, and the 2 Dd quire begins after f.
2,
f.
and one each
rd 13, and, the 3 quire
after
and
3
f.
beginning
at
2,
f.
at f.
f.
and
3,
f.
6,
f.
There
5.
5; and, since
f.
f.
another lacuna after
is
4 lh quire
The
14, 2 leaves are lost.
and the 3 rd quire therefore contained 9 leaves only. rently the scribe, perhaps by inadvertence, left a leaf unused. The begins at
f.
begins at
23
f.
6 th quire begins
3' d
at
f.
and 5" leaves are numbered o, u 1
4"',
,
The
44.
5"'
83)
is
the
is
2"'
1
leaf of the
1'",
1
the 15"' quire,
which begins
no numeral, and there
earlier
must include
f.
120, there
we know
that
ends at
it
136
f.
of eh. 41 does not appear in the narrative, the
at the
-
7 .
all
The missing
its
text.
1.
Ch.
Ch. 35, 47, 48, 49, 58
39),
58
2, 10, 24, 25, 2G,
tit.
illegible.
—5.
^-
7.
portions are parts of eh.
Ch. 58
4, all eh.
48, 49, 50.
fin.
Dyakonov,
(f.
—
135 6.
p. 363.
V
— a).
2.
is
2"'
1
f.
123.
carefully
Gh. 37 has
in the
1,
heading
the beginning
26 except
chs. 27-29, all eh. 30 except about
3.
the
and the
end of that chapter has perhaps
end of eh. 3 and beginning of eh.
beginning,
is
or 2 after
1
The ms.
r° a.
;
also been omitted
In
cannot have covered less
121, and
f.
been omitted by the scribe and, since the Simeon mentioned
of eh. 2, the
124
f.
89
122 has
f.
7 leaves are lost,
not often necessary to depart from
is
f.
Part of the text here lost can however be
at least 3.
rest is complete, but our text it
121,
f.
123, while
f.
After
90, 2 leaves are lost.
a lacuna after
is
than 5 leaves, so that 5 or 6 are lost after
written, and
f.
two lacunae
in these
supplied from D; and from this
The
the blank leaf in quire 3,
missing, and the next leaf
quire begins at
another lacuna after
is
Hence
17"' quire.
ofthe
leaf
at
quire
and the
»'', ,
so that 11 leaves are here lost.
12"'
another lacuna; and, as the
5' b
quire therefore contained 11 leaves; and
we may perhaps suppose that the scribe found and tacked it on here. The 10"' quire is wholly (f.
Appa-
;
33, the
3 has
follows that 3 leaves are lost
it
|
of a leaf
of a leaf at the
-;
Ch. 35, 47, 58, and the latter half of eh. 20.
—
4.
Probably the
Ch. 31 6"'
fin.,
35
fin.,
was numbered
48, 51 init. o,,
(cf.
but the mark
ch. is
INTRODUCTIOX.
viii
[vm]
end, the end of eh. 33 and beginning of eh. 34, the
some
Several other mss. oontain
These are
7.
13,
18,
19,
(B),
written in 875, whieh at
I'.
36,
and 40, which are also
in
and Mary
the lives of Susan
order,
The writing
probably because
was
it
l'ading, a later scribe
did not ink over the letters, but spaced
them
wrote
semicursive, and,
over; but, since he
it
and
three having
last
is
afresh, he often
remains of the original writing show,
(he
ff,
A, in
and an extract
11
eh.
161
which are
belöw),
2<S
and
19,
which stand between chs. 36 and 40, the
2,
probably been added as an after-thought.
as
27,
(chs.
being placed after eh.
there missing, these
from eh.
15,
14,
from them.
or extracts
of the lives
Mus. Add. 14650
(2) Brit.
:
contains chs. 3, tlial
eh. 52 except part of
all
the beginning ofeh. 53, and part of eh. 54.
title,
made mistakes,
niany places
in
it
is
impossible to say whether the errors of the text are the fault of the original
The
scribe or not.
make
to
text is of a paraphrastic character, the order of
one word
being changed,
authority.
(3)
but for the
Add. 12174
chs.
1
1
uame
and 27
is
not given.
contains chs. eh.
333
(f.
r
u
r°).
70
(f.
Add. 7190
(4)
(D), of the 12'" cent
heading of the extract from eh.
Add. 14651
94
v°,
,
we
a text which, as
v") in
(6)
I
l
John's
palimpsest written in 850, which
(E), a
from that of A.
12, dilfers little
the only
is
it
the only authority) and extracts from
is
it
In the
ff.).
(5)
and 27
12
276
(f.
28 below)
(eh.
written in 1197, a huge ms. in a large clear
which
eh. 52 (Cor
Mary
of
life
(G),
hand, which contains eh. 3
which contains
words
inserted
Almost any other ms. should therefore be
the sense clearer.
preferred to Uns;
and words
for another,
substituted
Add. 14730
(F), of the
see from 12'"
cent.,
contains eh. 52 and the saine extracts from chs. 11 and 27 which are pre-
served in
thought
of
I),
it
which
necessary to give
contains ihr
life
of
Malkha
the only authority for
it
contains chs. 18 and 33
where A as
of
seems
it
is
defective,
(f.
I
notes
refer in
The
tive.
lo
I.
U llieend f.
121
r
ofeh.
in
\
(eh.
29 below), and, as this v").
(8)
Add. 14735
and
of the
two
B.
443
(9)
v°
ff,),
the
.'>2
seems
the
to
word
wrong place
I
have not
is
missing
in
if it
A,
is
12"' cent.,
of the
resembles that of B,
and the peculiarities
B and
II;
but for brevity's
meaning
to assert that
Paris Syr. 234 (P), of the 13'" cent.,
but the latter part of eh. 2"'
1
4
hand, but
is
added under belonged
tlic
line in I)
to the line
(f.
below.
336
v°)
defec-
is
have been most carelessly written.
^^., is
as
.
conclusion of eh. 33,
text
in eh. 18,
the original of
1
r")
(G), of the 9'" cent.,
fll),
for the Its
'the scribe of B' without
(f.
125
r",
Add. 18814
the only authority.
is
121
has been written over again by a
read and
difficult to
''
text
(7)
171 v°, 157 v°),
(f.
(f.
255
the reading is not older than
contained chs. 3 and
copy
variants.
ils
may In' seen from a comparison B may perhaps be derived from
sake
111
to be a
very It
is
and inserted
IXTRODUCTION.
[,x]
ix
bad a State to photograph, and I owe the text to a copy taken long gl ago by M. Nau which he kindly sent to me, and of which M GrafTin and of eh. 4 P is the beginning collation for me. For obtained new a Nau M. in too
the only authority.
Land's text does not claim to be a is fairly
no doubt misprints) remain.
Hardly any suggestions
made; but
many
of
Douwen and
in v.
but
critical edition;
aecurate, though
with the mss. by Wright, and
was
it
many
collated
errors (some
emendation are
for
Land's translation are 2ipages of emendations,
which come from Professor Nöldeke
A
'.
large
number
of these
are actually in the ms.,
and of the others many are of great value
restoration of the text.
The
A Land
parts defective in
mss. in which they arefound, but did not give variants where
where
A
for the
supplied from other
A
exists, and,
does not exist, gave the text of one ms. witliout recording the
variants of others, except that in the
life
of
Susan
(eh.
27 below), which he
The existence of P Hence the beginning of eh. 4, which is in P only, edition; and the life of Susan is given in the paraphrastic
published from B, he gave a few of the variants of E.
was unknown is
to
him 2
absent from his
text of
B
.
E \
instead of that of the more faithful
V.
Douwen and
translation generally reproduces the original accurately; but in
they have misunderstood the meaning, and, give
what they
when
there
believe to be the sense intended without
a difliculty, they
is
comment
Notes on the subjeet-matter are rare, and there
dation.
Land's
some places
is
or emen-
no attempt to
elueidate the chronology.
Michael
(p.
377) mentions this
number
stating the
as 54
".
work
This
of John, and gives a
list,
which
list
of the lives,
very corrupt, has been
is
emended by M. Chabot, in whose translation the number appears as 51, but üyakonov (p. 369, n. 75) notes that no. 42 in the list is our eh. 52, and that next '^e our J-'t-O' i s a corruption of vm-om-V 3 » an ^ lä tne t t e °^ *' ie eh. 53), which brings the total to 52; and, if we suppose that the scribe omitted Elijah (eh. 30) because Elijah and Theodore (eh. 31) followed, and '
'
(
James (eh. 49) preceded, we have 54, and 43, and the life of Malkha (eh. 29 the missing lives being chs. 10 \ 42, below). Among the lives mentioned by Michael is one of Cosmo, which cannot be identified with any existing life 6 and this life together with the James and Theodore
(eh.
50) because
,
1.
I
believe these are taken from a
them from
v.
review, but
I
have not the
D. and L. with mention of Nöldeke's name.
— 2.
he departs from his principle of transcribing the oldest ms. that J. wrote more, but says that
—
Land,
ref.
to
p. ix.
(Id., p. x).
—
it,
— 4.
and give 3. In this
He
implies
he himself transcribed or epitomated these 54
in
Dyakonov notes that in Mich. 's no. 7, where only ^=-i! is legible, we should not with M. Chabot supply 'Simeon' (eh. 10), since he is not called ia*M, in the heading, but 'Addai' (eh. 8). —6. M. Chabot identified ii with eh. 52, because a C. is
another work.
5.
mentioned there; but see above.
'
liNTRODUCTION.
x
Mary, and Malkha must have occupied chs. 27-29, which were quire of A, and eh. 37, which has been omitted by the scribe.
lives of Susan,
in the lost 10
Now
in B,
come
[x]
,h
where the
followthe order of A, the lives of Susan and Mary
lives
betwen our chs. 19 and 36, and, though
in that order
stated below, this does not prove that Mary's
life
reason
for a
was not the omitted
life,
it does prove that Susan's was one of the missing chapters 27-29, and that it Further the life of Mary begins with the words « Neither preceded Mary's.
then was the history of this holy Mary unworthy of admiration it
seems a
fair inference that
another woman's
life
from which
»,
preceded; and,
if
this is
two lives aeeepted, since there is Van Douwen and Land, knowing are either chs. 27, 28 or chs. 28, 29. nothing of Michael, and therefore knowing nothing of Cosmo, treated the Omission of eh. 37 as merely an error of numeration, and made the lives of
woman's
no other
life tili
eh. 54, these
Susan, Mary, and Malkha chs. 27-29, without binding themselves to the correetness of the order.
It is
however more
likely, as
Dyakonov
remarks, that the three women's lives carae together; and this
The great lacuna in A covered, will show that Susan's
by the following consideration. shown,
and an easy calculation
11 leaves;
cover about 4| leaves, Mary's about or 8^ leaves in
all,
26) except the
(cli.
we have
3-^
of a leaf,
j
first
(p.
371)
borne out as
I
life
have
would
and Malkha's about 3 leaves,
Thomas
Damascus Dara of a leaf there remain 2| leaves, i. e. for these two Now Thomas was a distinguished bishop, and is
so that for the whole of the
life
of
i of a leaf, and the whole of the
(eh. 30) except the last ^
lives
is
leaves.
life
of
of Elijah of
inserted here after John of Thella and John of Hephaestopolis as having
been concerned with them
and
their lives
in the
work
of ordaining Monophysite clergy
oecupy 34 and 4 leaves respectively.
It
2 ,
seems unlikely then
Thomas covered less than 3 leaves, and, even if we cut it wo have only of a leaf for that of Elijah, at the end of which Out of his practiees I have briefly set down these », which seems
that the life of
down
to 24,
John savs tu
«
-5
iniply a longer space than this
3 I
.
conclude therefore that a shorter
life
than Malkha's stood in this place, and that can only have been Cosmo's'.
Accordinglv
it
most probable that the
is
life.
Malkha's, und thal the lives of Susan, Mary, and
As
to Ihe order,
we have
the order in Michael
1.
'f.
a slight presumption that the three lives
is
Sc. Mary's and that which preceded, be
71,
eh.
liu.,
2.">
Dyakonov
(p.
ch.
370)
the C. of eh. 52; hat stated that he
36
tin.
would it is
chs. 27-29.
already seen that Susan's preceded Mary's, and
implied by the opening words ofthe p.
omitted by the scribe was
Cosmo occupied
,
eh.
—
life.
49
3.
fin.,
it
Susan's or Cosmo's.
—
in
lives
of considerable
in
This
is
2.
There are similar expressions
all
came
at p. 35,
lenglh.
identify the hcroine of the life with the C. of ch.
—
13 and
stränge that in that case John should in neither place have
was writing or
liad written
her
life.
INTRODUCTION.
[xi]
xi
If however we make The work naturally divides
the order given above'. tlilliculties arise
which the
:
I
(
)
life
eh.
two
portions, of
whom
1-35) deals with persons
earlier (chs.
Gonstantinople)
in
Amida 3
(2)
The
sepulchre built by Mare, and the
title
at
.
was
by
built
Mare
..
immediate sequel of Mare's
to be the
of
Aaron the pres-
...
from which
»,
he
36) describes the
(eh. «
who were
byter and the rest of the presbyters and deacons in the sepulchre that
1
of eh. 38 runs
knew
whom
whereas Malkha died
,
Mare
of
lif'e
2
time
after that
37,
the author
(most of them in the East) before 542, and the later with those
knew (mostly while he was
two
Malklia's itself into
it
afterwards laid elearly appears
Hence we must suppose that
life.
the Omission of a chapter has caused an error in the numeration through the scribjs
numbering the chapters consecutively without looking Dyakonov (p. 371) would make Malklia's
he was copying.
at the
ms. that
and
eh. 36
life
Mare's 37; but another dilliculty then arises, since the history of the Ami-
dene convents during the persecution in eh. 35 seems to wind up the
monastery of John Urtaya
part, just as the history of the
up the second part.
opening words of Malklia's
we were
,
in our convent
back
thought 5
to eh. 35,
and
;
it
before
Cosmo's
does not exist,
life
if
this life,
life
Once, when
«
life
»
seem
were added as an
after-
banishment
being
at the
end of a volume, were
uncertain and of no importance, and
is
have preferred not to cause confusion by
I
Douwen and Land \ and have
altering the numeration of v.
Ieft
Malklia's
as eh. 29.
life
Of the whole 58
Thomas
of
1.
of
then that of
lives
Damascus
Mich, by calling eh. 47 a
Cosmo,
(50)
Caesaria
Possibly he put Th.
of
:
(46)
Theodora
Sosiana
might appear
CP.
to
difiicult
We
similar phrase oecurs
original,
G.
(eh.
It
might also have expected
—
however
may be
by Mich, are reduced is
meant is
lost,
of the lives
only insignificant which he puts
lives,
Susan,
(48)
Mary,
Mary and Euphemia to
(49)
(eh. 12).
speeify the others in order,
and added them
3.
in
Dyakonov,
at the
end.
—
2.
my
If
right (see notes there), that chapter
eh.
17 (p. 149)
that the. ms.
to 3.
—
clear from the
7.
'
XXXVI l'
list
to find eh.
p. 380.
— a
in
4.
life,
in
in the title of
in
25 in the 2" d part, but
See
life
p.
187, n.
which case the
Mare's
1.
—
it
A
5.
which much resembles
used by Mich, was derived from
and therefore did not contain Malklia's
misprint, as
women's
7
47), (47j
55), (52)
chronology of eh. 52
the natural sequel of eh. 24.
—
we have
be an exception; but his informant, the cleric John, lived with him
for 8 years.
Malklia's.
(eh.
as being empress, and
but accidenlally omitted the two sisters,
understanding of the
altogether
is
(30)
Theodora reckons
life
(eh. 54), (51) first
Cosmo
and Elijah
(26)
together at the end as follows
is
Malklia's
into
roay be conjeetured that the two parts were in two volumes,
Since however the order
.
was driven
it
and look as
and that the leaves containing lost
first
58 winds
possible therefore that the error oecurred earlier;
It is
but on the other band the
to refer
in eh.
life in v.
of contents and the note on p. 141.
A
or
its
lives omitted
D. and L.
is
a
INTRODUCTION.
x„
fragments, and the lives of Habib
Z'ura
(1),
t
Simeon the scribe
(2),
x "J
(34),
The rest, except in so far Priscus (53), and Caesaria (54) are defective. and a few illegible words scribe', the by been made have omissions may as -, is complete. Besides Michael the work was also used by the so-called Dionysius, who transcribes p. 141, I. 2-12 \ and linder A. S. 836 gives the following list of
in eh. 4
inen celebrated at the time
«
:
from the convent of
stylite
...
Surtha on the Tigris, Addai Jioäu»
disciple, Marc, [Paul] of
Fardaisa, John
the convent of
of
Zuknin »\
order and with eh. 7 omitted (nnless it
is
Abraham bishop
with
in
.Maro presided, the
an early ms.
5
lacuna after Marc); where
mentioned
(abstinent) to the
Abraham 58
in eh.
the Sfcdite
131 v°
(f.
S.
a gloss
names
he gives the following
<S('»2
a),
monastery over which
name being perhaps derived from
Again under A.
.
from
(visitör)
our chs. 3-9 in a different
e.
in the
of Beth Urtaye
and that he gives the naine Hsikha
Abraham and
came
it
i.
he has apparently confounded
to be noticed that
(eh. 4)
of Anzetene and Maro the Simeon the recluse and Sergius bis
Abraham bishop
j^.m
:
Theodosius, Anthimus, Paul, James, .lohn of Amida from the monastery 6 all of which come from our chs. 48-50 of Karthainin, Theodore of llirtha » «
,
except John,
who
interpolated
life
is
added
of
James
to the list of 7
marginal addition in an early ms.
John
comes
.
He puts down what he wants
into his head, stringing sentences together
which are often equivalent
how
and may also be derived from a
8
not a literary writer.
is
bishops consecrated by James in the
(see below),
he had begun; indeed
to in
may
attributed to the scribe
'and
1
by the use of
is
ungrammatical or inconsequent.
.
1.
See above, 0.,
Dyakonov,
1,
p.
p.
p. 34).
-
.">.
jusl possible that
It is
—
Kleyn, op. ca.,
8.
That the extract under A. lesiastical
ascetics
as of
transliterates
Perh. [,.
p. 72.
llistory, seeins
men itot«
John Malala
836 at
all
clear, for
J.
S.
it
cf.
B. 0.,
oecurred
II,
in the
Üiss.,
— s.
,0 ;
2.
v.
but
P. 59.
Anizeta
lacunae on p. 59.
there liowever called bp. of Dara; see n. ad loc.
though ^ok*
—
—
events comes from the Lives, not from the
would not have inserted a
distinguished at the time.
into Syriac,
we should say
86, 25
7. lle is
have
'
certainly used
Kleyn, Bi/drage, p. 69;
4.
I
in the notes when the From the circumstances of his life colloquial Greek,and many Greek
vn. Tliere are also two accidental omissions in eh. 46.
341.
6.
Ei
have charitably
can be done without making the
far as
he musthave had an extensive knowledge of words are interspersed in his Syriac 9 He
-3. B.
1
In the translation
well be the author's.
sentences uniotelligible, placing the words'sic syr. sentence
it
Jjjl.^
j
and frequently rambles on, forgetting
,
inany places irregularities that
reprodueed diese peculiarities so
to say as
p and
is
—
9.
In
two places
an exaet equivalent.
in
list
of obscure
eh. 3G he even
- 10. Land, p. 300.
'a source of John Malala' iilaase in Or. Christ.,
Neue
Ser., VI,
INTRODUCTION.
[xm]
XIII
any otherGreek writer is an erroneous and that may come from a Syriac translation. was a fervent Monophysite, he shows little interest in theology,
the only evidence of acquaintance with citation
from Ignatius
Though and
lie
contrast to his contemperary, the so-called
in
document
aecount of
his
in
be imperatively required, his theology
to
Zacharias, includes no
works except the Henoticon. Even in the the Tritheite controversy in H. E., v, 1-12, where some theology
tlioological
seems
in eh. 24,
is
confined to a few stilted
formulae, except that in eh. 8 he gives two sliort citations from the arguments
The only other theological argument
at the Conference.
the report of the dehate with the Nestorians in the
Arsham
148),
(p.
either.from his
and that
own
is
lips or
of
life
put into Simeon's mouth, and
works
in his
Simeon
probably derived
is
from the books which John inherited from
His chronological Statements are aften loose or even wild, instances are given in the notes
is
of Beth
liim
'.
which many
of
2 .
As an appendix to the genuine lives Land puhlished a longer life of James, which is attributed to John and was taken by Land to be his; but its spuriousness was clearly proved by Kleyn and was ad mitte d by v. Douvven and Land in their translation; and its character is so obvious that I need not :)
oecupy space by repeating the arguments here. however, and because Land's text re-edited lin
with the genuine
it
Sachau 321
the best of
need
all
(S), of the
lives.
8'"
an inferior ms.,
contained in three mss.
cent.
'
(f.
166
r° b).
Syriac hagiographical mss.; and, where
to einend or follow
this
ms.
I
am
:
This
we have
another ms.; but the last leaf of this
For the text of
tunately lost.
It is
end of the
For the sake of completeness
taken from
is
I
have
(1)
Ber-
perhaps
is
it,
we
rarely
life
is
unfor-
indebted to a photograph which
the kind assistance of Professor Allgeier enabled
me
Syr. 235 (N), of the 13'" cent.
have consulted
315v°), which
to procure.
(2)
Paris
in a
photo-
graph which Monseigneur Graffin with his usual kindness supplied.
This
seems
to be a not
(f.
very good copy of S, and
recordeditsvariants, but have supplied the lost
Mus. Add. 12174
(G).
I
I
have therefore not as a rule
final leaf
of S from
See above,p. vm. The text of this ms.
(f.
it.
(3) Brit.
285 v°a) isalater
life, in which some stories are omitted because the them edifying. It was from this ms. only that the life was puhlished by Land, and the füll text is therefore now published forthe first time.
paraphrastic version of the
scribe did not think
This relicsof
life is followed in S and C by a short narrative of the theft of the James by the monks of Fsiltha, which has been most carefully edited
with illuminating introduetion and commentary by M. Kugener in M. Clugnet's Bibl. Hagiogr.
with the 1.
life
P. 158.
3. Jac.
Orientale,
preceding
—
2.
I
III, p.
P. 83, 85, 94, 95, 157,
Baradaeus-
p. 105.
As
5.
have added
—
4.
it
the document
here; but, though
is
closely connected
1
have collated both
193, 210, 291, 296, besides
See p. xiv,
n. 1.
many
in
part 2.
-
mss.,
I
have seldom indeed found
Mar James, bishop
necessary to depart from M. Kugener's
it
mss. the narrative
In botli
text'. of
[*i v ]
INTR0DUCT10N.
XIV
is
followed by the words
ended
of Edessa, is
and
»,
in
S
:
«
The
history
follows a eolophon
liiere
was composed by Theodosius the stylite of Fsiltha The narrative is however stated 741 -. as if he were the author of both. Amida (G Mardin'), and we of bishop Cyriac of the title to be the work
stating that the history in
'
in
suppose that Theodosius after writing the life must Three difficulties remain. copied the narrative of Cyriac as a pendant to it. eolophon to have written when Stephen was (1) Theodosius is said in the therefore apparently
when
the relics were stolen archimandrites of two in 622 was thatname. (2) The so-called Dionysius places the death of Cyriac of Amida in 623% whereas the narrative mentions events of G28, so that we must either postulate two bishops of Amida named Cyriac or adopt with M. Rugener the Of a Cyriac of .Mardin nothing is known. (3) The reading 'Mardin' from C'.
archimandrite of Fsiltha; but the archimandrite
we must
also Stephen, so that
author of the
himself
life calls
the sinful John the Syrian, the Converter
Me
«
postulate
of the pagans and author of the Ecclesiastieal History,
house of Mar John at Amida
and
»,
the original, for the text there
John of Ephesus, why
the author passed himself ofl'as
To
tion called Theodosius?
this
an amplification of the original
mere
may
it
lives,
literary device not intended to
evervone as the author. a writer
who
into the inoulli of the original writer
as John
nowhere
a suspicion that
wrote
really
not
presumed
to alter
t
lext
h«;
then
be answered that the document
it
is
seems very stränge that
which he did not
of humility
find in the text; and,
J^^^bw
«2S.
6 ,
here and the scribe of
vertently Substitut«'«! Joot o*ia*; ju/ because the expression
other bishops above; but, as he
If
.
rd speaks of himself in the 3 person
eise in the Lives lie
5
»
he in the subscrip-
work should put an expression
amplifying an older
is
is
the
and that the use of the l st person was a deeeive, and Theodosius was known to
must say however that
I
who am from
simply copied from
man whose name was John
a
«
is
this is apparently not
A
was used
I
have inad-
of the
making mistakes, I have narrative must have been
not in the habit of
is 7
In
.
any rase the
had already used B for another ms., and 1. My S and C are M. Kugener's B and L. 2. See had denoted Add. 12174 by C, and therefore could not adopt Ins notation. Kugener, p. 23, where it is shown that 741 sliould be taken as the date of this I
—
document rather than that 934. He was the successor p. 73).
See above,
p.
of the ms., of the
as
D Sachau r
John who died
xn, and the intcrpolated
life
in
ad
took
it.
—
Ed. Chabot, A. S.
3.
578 ('Dion.' ap. Kleyn, Bifdrage } fin.
—
4.
Baumstark [Gesch.
d.
syr^
—
6. He often LH., p. 181) ascrilns the narrative to a Cyriac of Thella. - 5. Ch. 50. 7. There is a clear instance in which ihe text of A may be corrected docs so in //. /•.'.
—
from the interpolated Syria, Im»;
where A
life,
i.
c.
lias 'Isauria';
the aecount of the consecration of the bp. of Seleucia in see n.
011
ch. 50. Cf. also
f.
117
r° b,
should alinost cortainly be adopted from the interpolated
where the reading
life.
INTRODUCTION.
[xv]
written between 628 and 741, and the In the text
I
have recorded
all
- •,>*>
/
Words and
was probably composed
common
variants except the
^o«,
variations in the spelling of "^o, i
life
xv
letters inserted to
J^co/, JjlT,-^ fill
in
741
'.
orthographical
and sucn words as
lacunae are inclosed in Square
brackets in the text, and, as far as possible, in the translation, and words
which have been omitted by the scribe are inclosed in round brackets in A half-bracket denotes the beginning of the part of the text to the text.
which 1.
title
The
a note refers.
Baumstark
(l.
c.)
biblical references are to the Peshito.
thinks that the
life
may have been
written before 600; but the
'king of the Romans' shows that the author wrote under the Arabs.
MSS. USED IN
A B C
= Brit. = —
= — D = — E = — H P
THE PRESENT FASCICULE
Mus. Add. 14647
— — — — —
— — — — —
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14650
(875).
12174(1197).
7190
(12'" cent.).
14651
(850).
= — 14735 (12 cent.). = Paris Bibliotheque Nationale Syr. 234 ,h
(13'" cent.
ABBREVIATIONS
H. 0. (
.
//.
S. C. 0.
E.
Land
Assemani, Bibliotheca Orientalis. Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalitim,
scr. syr., ser. 3
a .
John of Ephesus, Ecclesiaslical Mslory, part 3 Land, Anecdota Syriaca, tom. IL
P. 0.
Palrolagia Orientalis.
H. 0. C.
Revue de l'Orient Chretien. Joannis Episc. Ephesi Commentarii de Beatis Orientalibus et Historiae Ecclesiasticae Fragmenta latine verterunt W. J. v. Douwen et
V. D. and L.
J.
P. N. Land.
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HISTORIES CONCERNING TUE WAYS OF LIFE OF THE BLESSED EasTKÜN-,
COMIMLED AND WRITTEN UV JOHN THE PILGRIM AND AT ONE TIME
A SOLITAIU
OF THE HOUSE OF [MaR John] OF AlMIDA IN THE FERVOUR OF DIVINE [zEAL].
When we
considered thc words
which he
his preaching to bis saints
oi'
our Saviour and Redeemer Jesus in
said, « Let
your light so shine before
men, that they may see your good deeds, and glorify your Father who heaven
»',
seemed
it
to
us that
tliis
is
is
the light of thc deeds and of the triumphs of his holy disciples should at tiines
arise
and be
in
not disagrqeable to his will, that
made known and appear among men,
as indeed
sense of his holy saying declares; and for this reason, although
all
the
we may
seen to be presuming to set foot in things that are too great for us, by the of his saying and the hope of his gift we have beeu encouraged to approach the task of compiling histories concerning their ways of Life and
power their
brave triumphs and
may draw, though 1.
Matih..
v,
the
Hi.
PATH. OR.
—
T.
characters of their good deeds,
obscurely, by
XVII.
—
!•'.
I.
means the
vile
that,
we
and common pigments of
r.
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»
JOHN OF EPHESUS.
2
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our poor vvords, the pattern of their likenesses for posterity, [and] leave
it
when they read and see their good deeds and marvellöus ways of life, hy tliis means we opine that two beneficial results will be produced, <>ne that when they see their good deeds they may also glorify their Father who is in heaven as it is written, and the second again, that, when the light of the narratives of their ways of life memoria] of our writings; so
in the
shines upon souls entangled error, they
may
imitate them, and to
Io
may attain to « Come enter,
they says since
I
in
be enlightened
their
to
the vanities of this world
by the
light of their
my
Father
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ii
have seen and known and clearly learned
am conßdent
tation;
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having
Matth., xxv,
34.
—
in
2.
I
deter-
hcroic and divine persons,
of bearing true witness without
lirst
,
and cover with silence the great and marvellöus virtues
that
I
condemns the man
not by the sentence of sin 2
not to conceal
I
call that
For these reasons therefore,
hear the apostolic saying that
mined and
and darkened by
triumphs and be eager
receive their patlerns in themselves, in order that
good and does
is
hat,
crowns, and hear with them the life-fraught
ye blessed of
dreaded even
who knows whai
l
formed James,
iv,
this resolution in
17,
my
fear
and without hesi-
mind, that, though
I
hear
AUTHOR'S PREFACE.
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tributed and given 3
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since
ways
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withoul
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to the blessed apostle's saying gifts are dis-
signs, to another beauty of heart
copious tears, to
'
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,
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—
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the
lo
record of narratives, while the spiritual beauties and great triumphs themselves, vvithout the
interposition of elegant language, are related bv their
which as
with
natural simplicity of hearl
is
written they glorified God',
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Ornate diction and
and dismissing
all
life
lest
l>\
it
we
snil
their
liolv
of
images; which have no
whatever ofbeauty and adornmenl lying outside their
d
of every one
combinations of words, rejecting
worldly elegance outside the circle of these admirable
and divine beauties, 1
artificial
circle, as ncither
has the Giver of their beauties himself, since indeed they are not lacking
We
anything, which also enrich and enlighten others by their beauties.
in
begin therefore from
ihis
poinl
sai-.il>
h\
relating his histoiy
dence
in
their petitions on
strengthened them, that
is,
to
draw
the
picture of each
one of these
through (he help of their prayers and confi-
cur behalf, and hope
in
the
as far as our small strength
is
gift of hini
ning, through the strength that arises from grace; and at the head
Company we sei ihis greal <>ld man whom a high heavenbj life, whcre each is in Christ Jesus, well befits.
divine
I
I'-.
cxix,
:.
«Im
capable of attai-
place
a1
<>f
this
table in the
LIFE OF HABIB.
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THE
I.
The
relation of the liistory of this apostolic
any mau to approach without
for
DIVINE OLD MAIS
FIRST HISTOKY, OF THE GREAT AND
fear to
man Habib
narrate
sides a cause of alarm Springs from the rehiting of
it, it
;
it
HaBIb'.
is
not easy
itiasmuch as on both first,
the fact that (he
enumerate the marvellous and great miracles and acts of power, and fearful and apostolic signs, which he who performs the will of those who fear him wrought through hini will fall short of the sum; sinee
man who
sets himself to
a tongue of tlesh to
is
indeed too small, and
speak of him as he
tliis
is;
and here there
is
human mouths are not sutlicient, danger lest a man wish to depict
great and divine sea in an ill-ordered and faulty manner, and', diminot sufftcient for them, finally
nishing las heavenly features because he
is
incur the condemnation of a corrupter
spiritual beauties; secondly, even
if
the
great and marvellous
[of]
deeds that can
1
;
silv
wrought through
which God wrought through him b<- narrated, lest they be as but, committing the greatness of these to the it were hard to believe and does not lie, who said, o Whoever belieis true knowledge of him who
apostles only
;
l.
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om.
A
V
f.
a.
2
;
JOHN OF EPHESUS.
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(a
it
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has not been hard to believe his word,
small proportioa) to record for the glory of God.
mau tlierefore came from the district of Sophanene, and was trained bv a man who was liimself also great and holy and a worker of This divine man therefore was miracles, whose namc was Bar Nbyl. This holy old
before our times; and, inasmuch as his end preceded our days,
great old
man
liis
disciple
marvels which he used
omit
shall 1«.
men
in
;
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perform, inasmuch as
whose ease the sight
mir haudwriting 2
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,
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was
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teil
though
declared before that
of our eyes has not borne
we have
this
us about the great
we
witness
not touched the history ofthat
trained bv a divine blessed
man whose
name was Mar Dada; which things we have omitted to relate, in order to This teil only the things that concern this man who was our contemporary.
man also
I.
therefere
came from
came; and he John, XIV,
12.
2.
firsl
P.
a villagc called
Fvl
r,
from which his master
planted thal monastery, and then this blessed llabib
LIFE OF HABIB.
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went to him, when he was about ten years
old,
and he received him, and
he continued to dwell with him, and he exercised him in spiritual ways of life,
marking
his tender age,
possessed from his youth.
and what devoutness and what orderliness he But,
when
tliat
old
man had completed
ninety
years, he departed to his mansion in heaven, and left his monastery in the
hands of so,
tlie
blessed Habib, after he had lived with him twenty years; and
having seen
his
ways
of
life
him heir of the inheritance of the blessed Habib
not think
it
was
liis
obedience and his humility, he made
and
left
him
to succed him.
so humble and obedient even in his old age that
was stränge i
.-i
and
his blessings,
to
For I
«l
him'
And from that time the fear of the blessed man feil upon all men, so that many from fear, before he himself spoke to them, of their own free will made a remission; and then afterwards the blessed man nsed to perform frequent mighty works in every place against those who contended against him, and wben he spoke God would perform in action everything that he I.
A
leaf or
two missing.
Af.3 1° a.
JOHN OF EPHESÜS.
8
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and
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power
the
all
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parchments
and entreated him to forgive him.
who had
many
ass lieard
it,
his
tlie
fapcns),
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an ancient debt,
tliere
many
keenness
knees knocked
of the saint's curse slionld liglit
his
another village,
also used to plunder
joot
I..
when
lost
Jh
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because he saw his zeal and readiness and
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man
upon
lo
him.
liim
and brought them
was another years old
;
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'
Lo
rieb
and he
people; and they came and told the blessed
about him, and he set out to go
!
man
Habib
coming', inasmuch as he was not prepared to do good, he arose and tunk
parchments
the
the blessed
man
jrjfcpr/is),
heanl
il
i.
the deeds, and left him and fled. was distressed and said « Because
lliern
lel
fear
feil
:
1.
\i-
his will
was
God wills their deliverance, never see him again ». And the same night tliat man died, and 011 all who heard it. And the blessed man went on continuing
busy hiaaself greatly
rance
And when
e,
he
thus prepared to do evil toward these poor inen,
to
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for
the poor
and
in
if
matters of debt-remission, becoming
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the wife
a delive-
ofthe man
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and
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took
children
his
tlie
all
their
parchments
blessed man, and tlms returned
y«pf?.;
tliein lo their
,
and
owners.
Again there was another man, and he kept ancient deeds some years old came and told the Saint, and they bröught him, and he went; and that because from his boyhood and down to his old age
against poor men, and they
he retained his humility and obedience which so that a
widow
woman
or a poor
him on any business whatever, he refuse
to
When
did not
itself also
distinguished him,
man who begged him to go with as heing a man of high reputation
satisfy him,
go, hut, in order to
withont delay.
'
or poor
wonld go with him at once to that man, inäsmuch as
thereforc he had gone
Satan had fdled that man's heart, he was roused to fury against him, saying, «
Will not this fellow go and
lie
man heard
these tliings he
having prayed and said if
sit
comes out and wanders about
thou knowest that
forgive this of thy
come 1.
man.
name and
I
:
was «
came
And for the
his
monastery and be quiet?
and drink
distressed,
».
And when
and he returned
Lord who knowest what
is
for see!
the blessed
to his
monastery,
in the hearts ol all,
out in this business in order to eat and drink,
again,
if
thy gface knoweth that
it
is
for the sake
sake of the deliverance of the wrongcd (hat
out, in order that this
Sic s\r.
in
to eat
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same thing may be made known
to this
I
have
man and
3
;
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10
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knoweth how
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became withered, one
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man; and
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that
üf his eyes
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into grievous affliction.
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it
and
and he
feet,
was
a sen-
tence emanating from justice, which had overtaken him of on aecount of his
blasphemy, he sent intercessors to the sainl
to
ask him to pray for liim; and
he on his side did not withhold his kindness from him, his disciple
whose name was Z ura;
of the gift of the
power
of
Elisha, so that after
disciple
Tliis
himself.
man
011
whom
reverse
forlli
immediately sent
prayer like the blessed Elijah upon his him he became even more distinguished than liis
therefore he sent, saying
:
«
Go,
Bat
llie
againsl him, that he shall depart from
lifo
part will not close the door, and pray for him.
has gone
luit
from that time he poured part
my
son;
we
for
and this we cannot
;
And, when he had gone and prayed over him, immediately
».
soul departed from
was broughl about
liis
our
rest of the sentence
ln^
body, and he died, and withoul his consent a remission
for these injured
to subjeel to afflictions.
Ami
in
persons vvhomhe himself was prepared
conscqucncc
<>f
this fear
everyone
who häd
debtors of ancient Standing would remil the debt; and some ofthem broughl their
il
la
lo
the blessed
man
himself, and entreated
him
to
bless
them
LIFE OF HABIB.
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lost.
while the fear and the terror of him went out thenceforth in every place And, as it is because he himself also travelled in all the districts of Syria. written in the blessed Job,
peace?
him
» ',
so
was
it
in this matter,
«
Who
hath contended with him and hath had
man, so that no one resisted and raised bis head again.
fulfilled in this spiritual old
and transgressed
his Orders,
2 There was again another rieh man in the eity of Maiferkat who was a old, and years several (ypaji.[jLaTeTov) banker fa<mg{rn<;) and had many bonds and eame persons certain And mercilessly. and used to exaet cruelly ,
informed the old man; and he rose forthwith and directed his steps to the city
3
five
years
my
eyes were opened
have not seen the light, and, when »;
I
eame near you with everyone,
though indeed even the old man was astonished
by way of precaution against being deeeived said to for my pari am a Your own faith has given you light; and, if not,
this, «
1
and as
if
1
ner
l.
».
And
Job, i\.
4.
so this miracle
—
2.
Martyropolis.
—
was proclaimed 3.
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leaf
<>r
all
two missing.
over the
city,
al
her, sin-
while everyone
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JOHN OF EPHESUS.
12
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scave
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follows:
—
2.
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ju_=>j
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Ms. t-om: corr.
v.
D.
^a-Äioo
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and
I^OfJ^ 06.
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la2S> Jils ^D
1.
While he was exerting
thanks to God.
ooi
his activity in the
ccitain persons l'rom thc counti v of the Persians heard of
il
same
city,
because he was
near there, and they broughl liini two women, one who was persecuted by a demon, and anöther who was harren of offspring, having been many years with her husband and ao1 having had children; and they continued entreating liim to pray for them. Bu1 he on liis side came up and made the sign
woman, and prayed, and
over the possessed
demon, and
lie
eise of the one said,
«
laid
an inhibition upon thal
immediately came onl of her, and she was healed.
who was
Go and keep guard over
next year lo! von
sliall
have
a
yourself,
son
».
that
And
you
in
her arms, and
si
I;
to
in the
the
and
at
iliis
and time
believed, and went
a son: and,
came
Bul
the sign over her
woman
that
awav; and she leeeived conception and bare passed, she took him
made
barren he prayed and
aller a
blessed
year
man
in
liad
his
monastery; and he baptized and blessed him; and she returned rejoicing and praising God.
Again there was spenl
min
and made
h
a certain
money upon
terrible
il;
havoc of
man. and he had
a
and
for
thal
vineyard; and,
the fourtli ynar, he sei forth and wenl
three
large vineyard,
and had
came down time came in
years running hail
wceping
when
to the old
thal
man. and continued
.1
LIFE OF HAB1B.
[13]
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Ms. with puinL--
son,
is
—
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—
^erased.
-i.
/^S
Ms. oCoiaß-
liini.
«
No
and
let
«
Whereforc,
:
Sir,
I
know
not
»
to
him
:
Know
«
and see
own sins that things which But go make au von may repent. ».
Tliat
And the old And, when fhey had
ordered him, and made a particle of bread.
man went as man set qut and went, and offered the partaken and sat down to receive the
oblation there.
blessing aller their oblation, suddenly
cloud ascended in terrifying fashion, and came to the place; and this
perhaps so that God mighl
make
it
kuovvn
tliat
man's oblation and his prayer, and had dune hailstones his
liim
us go there; and do you keep guard over yourself
lie
lliat
He says
».
have not sinned are being chastised, thal pblation,
:
account of your
consequently on
is
».
Ilas that plantation done anv sin or crime, or
:
it
man said to And he said
But the old
havoc made of that vineyard?
The old man says to him « olfended God? » He says to him, that
hands
word
of
a
1
v" a.
entreating him to pray for
my
JlvO
.^iok^.
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I.
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began
fo fall, the old
to heaven,
and
command governs
said, «
man
he had
aceepted the old
will.
And, when the
his
rose from the table and stretched
Our Lord Jesus
everything lhal
is
in
Christ,
011
whose signal and
heaven and that
is
on earth,
been deemed worthy to have thy living because, my and life-giving body and blood offered in it, accept the person of the sinner And thv bondman, my Lord, and cause this cloud to pass away from him ». Lord, this vineyard has
'.
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JOHN OF EPHESUS.
14
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the Lord heard the old man's voice; and that cloud passed away, and did not härm even one leaf in it; and lo! l'rom that time, through the power of the blessed man's prayers,
while havoc was made
Agäin they brought and he
laid
that vineyard remained without
of every thing round certain
ä
woman
it,
to
and
it
hail falling
in
it,
alone escaped.
him who had a demon
an Inhibition upon him, and he came out of her.
in her,
And
after
some years the old man feil sick, and was constrained to die; and his disciples came near and besought him to remove his inhibitiöns; and the And immediately blessed man removed all his inhibitiöns that he had made. And, when they said to that fiend retnrned, and appeared in that woman. him, « How have von presumed, when you were laid under an inhibition by the blessed Habib?», he said to them, « Las! evening he removed every Inhibition laid by bim, while
I
was standing
there, and
I
came
».
And when
they
him a message, « As for von. von And so ,,,. not al liberty lo dwell in a human being for ever and ever ». hewasagain expelled by the power ofGod's word. There was again another
came and
woman
in
harkod
nt
told the blessed
a certain
Cf. rh.
village
he sent
who had
a
mad demon
in her,
a
woman who
people like a noxious beast, and tore their clothes, and violently
assaulted manv, and, 1
man
".
when they brought
where a simllar *tory
1s told.
her to the old man, she continued
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howling
at
him and seeking
And
the
old
man
stretched out
hand, and made the sign over her; and he laid an Inhibition upon him
his
« In the name of the Lord you are barred from his creation » same hour he went out of her, and she was healed and that woman became quiet, while everyone wondered and gave thanks to Göd, There was again another poor widow woman, and she had been taught,
and said,
And
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the
;
the art of'drawing, and used to practise
and she used to teach pupils.
it
and labonr
And two
at
it
l'or
during which she had spent labour upon them, went away learned and dcfrauded her, and did not give her her fee. everyone
who was defrauded whether
holy Habib as to a deliverer of those to him, and informed him of her
of
little
or of
much had
who were wronged, And he wrote
affair.
her necessities,
of her pupils, after a long time
when they had And, because recourse to the
this
woman came
a letter to these
them not to make use of her art tili they But they acted presumptuously and treated the old man with contempt, and did not comply with his order, and they began to practise the art. And the same day the sentence for their presumption overtook them; for thetongue of one was seized with an impediment
pupils of hers the
same hour,
telling
paid her the fee for her labour.
so that she could not speak at
all,
and the arm of the other withered and
f.
a.
5
JOHN OF
16
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the sign over them, and the bonds were loosened, while he cautioned
made
for
'•
man; and she went with them, and
forgive them.
[Ins]
—
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fee to her,
[entreat] the old
continued entreating him
them
D. and L.
and would aot turn.
ran carrying [that poor woman'a
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v.
and
poor
them
again.
to entreat
him
at Ins
come
in;
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power
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he said to them,
in liim.
these beasts, say to them
[in]
confidence in the divine
Go; and, when you have seen
«
a lond [voiee],
are not permitted
Habib the sinner [says that vou
'
to taste of
and
in this
village' ».
Company
the
to
thev
said
day acts that have
been recorded
aeglecting the
rest,
while
all
in
we comprise in the low who performed them,
Order to glorify him
of us
who
are at this time
the truth of the things that have been written,
each one of them, together with the blessed well,
among
w
hom
the
lirst
which blessed Z'ura, of
and the
men
will
of
Habib had marvellously run
also
power and miracles and signs and -•
end üf Chi
PA1R. OK.
—
in this
body
testify to
clearly
the disciples of the sainl as
compose
[began] vigorously to walk wbollv in the footsteps of tlie [old]
the
in
and have seen and know
niost eminent are Z'ura
whom we
'In-
a
and Hanau ya special
saint.
XVII.
—
F.
1.
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record, But, after
path of heroism, and of acta
mighty deeds, and deliverance
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is
men and
widows,
of
a release from the troubles
[of]
the
committed his monastery body, and feil asleep in peace, having confitently Z'ura his disciple, who lo distressed the of care the and and his labour hhnself also trafficked zealously with
insomuch as
to
amass double
began and ended
days
his
profits.
in the
the
talent of his
And
course
of
gifts all
old
so the greal
heroism
in
all
his
his
relations,
ended his course and received his crown'; by whose prayers
an(]
days,
mau Habib
may wo
2
merit
i
ihr history
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the grcat
und divine old man Habib
is
SECOND HISTORY, OF THE DIVINE BLESSED
ended.
MV>'
Z'URA..
than and aspring broke forth and came oul inabundance, many times more so
i
1
1
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im., iv,
"l,
8.
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it,
ho rejoiced
once the same night he
at
departed to bis master, baving charged the brother
Bnt,
•
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men during
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who was
with him. not
his life, as he also did not inform his master.
news was received
that the blessed
man had gone down
to
morning many persons gathered together go and b& blessed by him; and they see the spring flowing in
the spring in the evening, in the in order to
and rieh stream, and
a copions
their
lands and gardens inundated
news was received throughout the
and the wliole
city;
and the bishop with the judge
city directed their steps to the place;
they marvelled and gave thanks, and praised God that fear him.
day; and first
it
act of
is
And
and when they saw
who
power which the prayer
to the present
il
does the will ofthem
they called that fountain 'Mar Zura's spring'
even actually so called
with
And
water, and they ran to the city; and they informed the bishop of this. the
time
of this divine master
1
.
t<>
this
This was the
produced
in his
own
disciple.
Again once the mighty hosts of the Runs came
men were
in a fortress; and,
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andL. suggest. —2. Probably
by,
in 515 (Marceil.,
f.
b.
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l-IMIKSUS.
JOHN OF
20
was going down,
the
And as go down and inspecl the monastery. while way, the on him of the Huns came upon
to
tiosl
And Walking, and repeating the Service. he was carrying his cross and Ins hand for the raised and sword, his te of them ran and drew al onc and he on his side raised his hand purpose of smiting the blessed man; And the hand ol it no farther •. move . Ho! him to a ,, am ., him and said :
Ins
and moved no farther, while he retaiired that barbarian was impeded until the whole of the host had SW ord and his hand was thus raised, as well went away, while aone oi also he was released and he passed- and
monastery,
Ins so. trnsting in ('.od, he also wenl to lived, when he had taken man blessed the that years M,,.,. the term of a small Lord, the blessed Z'ura, who was in truth his res t and gone to his made a high, the than was higher man ( Z '„ )in his staturc and in his mind the forth thence while it. upon column for himself, and went up and stood him. through performed were his master of deeds of power and healings column, and il was accordingly no |.-,„. a fter he had gonc up on to the persons with his hands and bend them in Ins power to grasp paralysed
lh(
,
m
liad
,„„, him,
and
m
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011 ger
and eure a
the
blessing,
sick,
thq used
and wherever
when he had completed
il
a
to feil
give him water and he used to pronounce But, eure was not long in following. a
term of years upon
the
column, the synodite
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persecutors came to lüm: and. since they did not find in his disposition a down chance of making him communicate with them, they broughl him
from
tlie
saying,
and
colnmn; and. when
«
1
will not rest
tili
lie 1
had come down, he was moved with
go up
to
zeal
him who holds the royal authority,
him before our Lord Jesus Ghrisl concerning the persecution whole church, and concerning the distresses and the mockery of the
testify to
of the
saints in every place ».
With also,
this zeal the blessed
and he arose and took
man armed
himself and with trusi in Ins Lord
ten of his disciples, and
journeyed
to the royal
having also preceded city itself and arrived there, letters from the adversaries Information as to gave which days, of number small the blessed man by no his croinü' up, thino-s
by Dispensation of providence, in the same manner in which effected through Ahab without his knowledge, for, while
were also
was turning over his plans for killine- the zealous Elijah the greal man, sending as of his owd motion his envoys and his letters among foreign and display peoples with regard to his death, he was being made to celebrate he himself
the fact that he
was able
upou the
and was by
earth,
actually to bis
bind the lieaven
envoys proclaiming
so that ao rain
his
mighty ad
to
feil
the
b.
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when
the old
man and
all his
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in,
and, the doetnnes that
expressed, those that wen right were were condemned had been gently' langnage on behalf of the behevers by again heroicallv expressed in sonnd the confide frankness («#,„(.) of his Lord and the blessedman with the old man carried contendswith death, while he spiritaal king of Edom the thal written is cedure aecording to what it
out his pro-
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that
,
landed
the great nor with small save with and said, « Ye shall not contend with small, with nor great direel his contest with king of Israel •"; for he did not ced whom he shoald devoar a lion, and as roared who him against bat reproof againsl him permeasareless the whole in that he sternly broaght concerning all perseention of God's ehnreh, sonally, on aeconnt of all the of this introdnetion in his days, eoncerning the th ebloodtha1 was shed God things these AI things, saying, . aeenrsed synod, and encerniug many all the come, shall he when day the great will reqnire a, vonr hands in When the king by reason of ho ». distress of the Christians everywhere ol the divme on the blessed man on aeconn fear of him feared to lay a hand y 0SSeSSed h ° "** frankness ( ^
) which he P 1
^
W
LThereisperhaps nians with lukewarmness.
^^
'
rror here.
-
2.
I
Kings, xxn. 31.
»t he to char
right, the
-
3.
i
IM.,
v,
8.
\
\äfrl
Chalced,
f,
li.
'
JOHN OF RPIIRSUS.
24
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[24]
7^
Lioa^ ^^-^
;i
).i^aaN ov^3Ü»,o .ouooi ^'^oJXa./o ou_.» "^o.
clenched his
fist (?)
,\s^y^J.\
Jjlsql^j
oi_=>
as tightly as he could in violent rage, and Struck himself
upon Ihe breast and and
p
-^^o
said, «
You
are apostates and corrupters, and the svnod
it from you any you wcre true men, God would show me a sign byyour hands. And he who anathematizes the synod contends with bis life ». On all this
is
true,
more, and.
I
will not consent to hear these things against
if
commotion taking place great
terror overwhelmed all tbe magnates; but tbe when he saw tlial lie bad decreed death against anyone who anathematized the synod, was kindled with zeal and liis beart became hot
blessed man,
within liim as
wrni
slraiglil
Lord
is
il
is
writlcn, and
anathematized nol
Ami, since you seek
a
Lord will not show you a
he
weiit out in violenl
man.
the blessed
him according
to
I'.ni
body
seized bis
fire
against him, and said
:
«
!
.
Ps.
1.
'
mit
'1
ihisremind
Z'ura.
3,
1.
i
—
sign, by believers signs are not required; a sign outside
you, but in your
rage, while threats after a
day tbe sign
the blessed man's saying,
2.
Christ our
only by us, but also by the angels of heaven.
human shape was
xxxu,
,
The synod which diyided
Sc. Justinian.
ofProc, Hist.
An
3.
Mich, i
and
who
seif »
bu1
the
And
.
which he asked appeared
for
in lhai
ool recognised in
—
own
so
were also being forged against
head, and his understanding was taken away; and
him
and immcdialelv he
1
him
i'epeats
in the story
he
was smitten upon
fearful
a ',
swelling covered
insomuch thal
Uns passage
in liis
rroni
nur
Ins wife,
text]
which there follows the monk
'
his face
is
'.
perhaps
LIFE
25
o^j \^l
.otla\
^a^J
JujJ Ku^tjji
>m - q ^oo
Joot
JJLJjj
io/
Jjoi*
-.<*\
.)'!/
K-^bv.^0 .JjLia-.o(.äo
""^xs
oocx
oxl^.jl
JKjl.^0 ch.^.1^1
1.
Mich.
(p.
282
y^
ins.
't-a^!
_
w^S^.
U-sa^
t~2u^o
^^ie»
"^
2
t-iXio
..
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'
.
..looi
JL J_ä~J,
,op
,_io
J$,Jl>>0
Jl/
J^^^
joi
^3
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ouiocdS^/o
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^^^O
K^uQQ..J;
ÄC^sü
..w.ota^i>
J.i.=>a^j
Jl^;
,^N^.^v
^.*Aioo
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;a^^a
'-61
*>t^o
.
)loj.-pw ^.ch
^.io
ver an erasure.
,
—
3.
JJ /
JJ
..(./Vaio/;
jL^, ^^^.io
otla^,?
.-jLaLXO»
Ms.
.yeu^ol
-•ovs-
who was very cunning, hid him secretly in the Chamber, lliat it might not known to the city that he was already dead, and exeept two physicians
be
and two chamberlains
did not allow anyonc to
slie
man
she sent intercessors to the blessed
him that he might recover, and he wonld And, this mcssage having roused sorry;
and he said
to
him
:
«
liim,
blessed
man made
and he recognised the old
him
at
at
come in to him, while to come and pray for
him
once make peace
he went and saw
same hour
a prayer, and the
set
to ask
man and knew
bis
that
man
said to
church.
».
was
And the
understanding returned it
it
had so happened
naught; and he went on entreating him
pray for him that he might be healed, and he might do while the blessed
in the
him, and he
Lo! the sign wliich you songht
to him,
him becanse he had
a
v
yOOi^sJL^ J^a>oi^3
%
K^J^ma
-.^tr*
^*j^j ^a^io
JJ
^-.^ot ^_ioo
).xicu.öoo
J.bo,.b>
?
loi» Ji™ -a<^
..JjLJSQ^
^./ ^.ouSx J.V,_iCL^
jj
)N-\-po
^.^LÄ-iö
.jus ,J^ä—a-^
y3
p
Jjlsq^ oot
o«^. jooi
yOO«.-.^Q-«
oul^.^ A9
.JLxoot
jJ
..^.»1 )t^DQ.OLÄO ^»?I jJ.aio/ */ jj/o
jj
..-cna^iw ojjooi Jjl3 jtOsJus ch-so -.)la\,
o»A
.
fto^JJ
..cmK^jl^' Jjoojk..i
JJ,
CH^^iOO -.j>OQ-QJ; ^.CXobO^ JJvj
,_a^'
Z'URA.
otlKj/ s3/; JjLl-/ .Jju^JLÜ; jloiO; <*i
*V^o? J^Jupcui». ^^.Kj
o&.
<>F
him
:
«
all
t<>
to
that he ordered;
This happened to you, becanse von
tempted the Lord your God like an unbeliever, and songht a sign ». And thenceforth the dread of the blessed man feil upon him, and in fear he used to assent to bis requests in everything; only the State
of the
not set right, because the delinquencies of the Amorites
yetfull; but he ceased that violence
church he did
were perhaps
nol
and these threats, while the power of
the old man's prayer thenceforward gave freedom of action
(icocppviffia)
to all
r.
b
JOHN OF EPHESUS.
26 J.ia—al'i.-.i
.J^aoao
.-oocm
s-.6i
)ooi
i-a-iö
.
l.^oa^.oo .iooi
JiifflV);
•
Jjiol^-3)^.^
Jlaa^io Kju,^cls
d.iaA;
S\
J^.J.jJ^^ J.^*.aÄoo ^.iö "^i. .-'joot
^3
.VCL.
O«.^
a
r.
s •
I.I.NL5
J-«-^.»
1.
''()a^i.io)
Grammar
_
^o-
MS
3.
.
v>»
"^^
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^ao
»
l^^sj
)Ja.3
oh2Ü-.o ^j;/ JoiSis
v.
which
I>.
and
L.
J^^a*
and
-
^_iOj
—
J.JL*«
-,.
^
j)..,.
is
•
flD
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M to.
in
«=^3^/.
oot oot
.'sCQ.^.a.^/
ol$5\j
completed
Jlai:>a.»ot
j.jpo,.\i
^^ joot
Jj-O--»/
yOOi^.3
•.
^ototSw/
JfcCiwJS.
.vÄ.a.:.ij
Ms.
«t-3
J-v^aS
another r,.
\\
>
.
Jjoi
Ms.
..
.
i
Ms. um.
every place, and they openly hcld assem-
in
of death
was decreed, against
anyone vvho was discovered liolding an assembly. blessed X'uia reached as far as
OU»
Jla-^.js
^...Vojsj
Lhe senl< nee
Ms. o^^a-
i.
Jlaio;
'p-^10 -oto^j.-^
-Jooi
.Joot
Jal*.
Otl^
ooot
coming the threat
before his
'
K—JO
)^;ä^
jj
yo^
Jooi v *.^.x oiilj-s;
^...il^.JL.iO
oo».ij
l^-'^o )lk*.i^Q.^ oüa*;
the believers in every city blies,
JoOt
requires Ihe addilion of ov^-v. im
Uan-^l: corr.
p
»N.s ^>o
^_.;
^js.i, jJV-V^-2 J-iooof^ JLx^J
:)ooi
jAsJUi-Sioo
.OOOl
*3
U-so-^ Joot; Jjls;
^ia;o
il/
J.:sch...
ojfcs-ljbo
t-J- : N>v
Iq\. )|_»^cdo J-iVoi {j'^no.£d
JjLS^iÖ Jj^-S .JioJ^iO Kl^pOLS. ...
,6t^3
oiLa^.
j-^~*0|j
-.loot
J^oooi^ j^op* •J'OAJ U-=x^?
Jlöl/ +3 •Ufc-±o
an» ^^.ja-jeLaoo J^Kio .°l\. M ;
t
w^sKxioi
^*üo
joCSx jii—o
t
[26]
And
the
Rome, while God continued
to
fame of the
work signs
and deeds of power llirongh him, and Lhe wliole city resorted to him, and
was made protector
he
of the poor as in
liis
were resolved by him before the king and '\i'i\
il.iy
he
was engaged
same
in the
country, while tnany great affairs
all
the Senators
si/wX-n-mwi),
contesl on behalf of the faith.
while After
man had been some time in the royal city, the man deserving of evil meinorv who had at lliai time been made patriarch in Home, whose name was Agapetus, was summoned by sinne cause, and went down tu the royal \ a man who was a grievous blasphemer, in comparison of whose lhe blessed
<
•
i
i
\
blasphemies those of the followers of Paul of Samosata were very small;
who,
if
heaven
sentence from
blasphemies, was aboul '.Mary the
1.
3,
Ms.
Sic
syr.
3
—
to
God-bearer should
2.
liad
issue
nol
He came on
no1
overtaken him and suppressed his
this order,
;>
be
thal
the
commemorated
polilical
mission from king
name in
of the
the church
Theodahal
[Lib.
Blessed al
Pont
all,
.
—
JU^ia^
^';j;
Joot
^^/
•.pe/ *3
^jX
»j
y^
>a^3LA
oflajts-^-^w^
,J»3uflO;
•
uUls ^io "^L.;
Joot
ou^>;
J^j/ ^.io
U*-.*Z
J
potoo;
JLotol.
Corr.
—
U"0^=-
l'idiii
2.
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JJ;
^Oäq.»; Ji.a.\» J.jlsq_^v 1.
-
Jv-=^; |a.~J
.
pop
Mich.
•.chLqj^cx.jxJlo
J.,=>j
—
uoio*»m3.
::.
^-.j
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y^\
J"=>a^;
^£^0;
jjLiO
oda-Os_£C^ .o£^>
J.xioo
^-»/
oot
j-*\ ^-»;
ou*.i^
Jjo«
vq.^^vä>V.2i
^-,;
(p. 285)
f3
-.i-iö/
yj;
^-iö
JJ;
-*5 J>°-^J
«^
wiö
y-ota.3;«L^
>
»
Jj-^io
i--=^'/;
).i.r>o^,3;
,
)jl*S^OÖ
^*;
^_./ otS.
mv
Joot vJl^v
vooj^s ^io; o/ -.,^5.NjlI; y^\ ^oto-.,-^ /
.;V^s-J JloVl/ -.oC^-.-.
w\aii
J^.»o_co oöt ^_i6
w>/t
.-Joot
jlaAi^aS» .Joot
^caa-io;
^otaS^ ^^l^o -.yoysy^ oua^
y.-/
^J^ot
JJ ^
.JLoioi J^_/;
\^x.a ^.otoK^/
JJ;
r,
.otK-Oöl lajL*.i
JjiS.ia^ oitO^^io;
J.ba^.x\ ^3<*io
po/
yo^aii
^cxa.^s^.
^iö y^/
^.otaS*iaJiLi;
p
OF Z'URA.
LIFE
[27]
.J.*J(
(Wi > ; «.pö/
v. I »
"oi-sot...
J.a^-i6
^-.;
Jt-^^ ..jaXco N^-s\;
.i+x' J-^-=>^?
enteil ..J.a^OÖ;o
M>. o»-sow
bc found depicted anywhere, while he presumptuously promulgated his blasplieraies, which did not retard for him the reward that This man therefore, having been magnificently reeeived his labonr deserved.
nor her likeness
by the hing with much display, inasinnch as he was not aware of all the evil of his inind, when he had come in, inasmuch as he was annoyed by the brought a complaint about
reports of the blessed Z'ura, hing, saying, to turn the
Wherefore
«
world
r
is
the Syrian deeeiver
deeeption
to his
1
a
stubborn
man who
does not fear
zeal in the case of the blessed
man
And what can men d. But he, «
wish
lirst,
bis will, saying,
«
If
all
the
b.efore
do
in
to
the
lic
him?
knew
For he
show Ins me do to And countries ». order
you are stronger than
to
Let
«
he, do as
you
».
But
this
men and
man
Mich.
in Ins
arrogance without delay sent some of
the king's to the blessed
the other side 1.
him
I
aecused him saying,
him so that he will submit, or be expelled from the king gave
liim
here allowed by you
is
But the king, inasinnch as
»?
well the old raan's power, said to him, is
who
'
2
man
himself
(a
his
own
leading
large villa at Sycae
011
had been given him by the queen, and he was staying there
In bis sorceries'.
—
2.
Sc
of the
Golden Hörn.
A
f.
i"
b.
8
JOHN OF EPHESUS.
28
Jtoö<x. Joot ok.^. -otoi^icLM; \^fX
,_^
JjlS^&,
r.
8
JJo
,^\
,^.ä> )il/
JJo
v^-co ©Ol
..^
J^j/
^.\oo
joi^Ss
.JJö;
oöt
)-o;
ya± ^iolo
..Joot
ooul/ jtoi^io
oolo
.
\'l\
\j\
.-^-;o iaXiöj Jj^OOS
^)o^Jio
^_3l^1) jh
-.^:-^-;
^*-w* J^il v3/j Jjl3_/
^^l»j
.^>©K^
'ot,—J»
,_äo
voouk-/ V->^
-)^ooi; )-^o'^o °o°<
,j>
Jjou» vAosl;
^-^a^o -.^
jtoa*. o^iol/
.Jlj-.p.
y*
^--j
JN._söo_
)jL*».lfl
.yKx*^
Jjiot
J_«pö omlSj ^o-cd
^-Aoi
H«>
-.vjujj
JJo
nX
-sft
..^ K-X
Jl/
Jjlsc»4
a
^
.J-l^>q^
+s>
[28]
oö«
J)o,^o
|»V*»
fco/
|i\^ft
J-i«
.vra^ic^oas/ ,-^j
^*A_9*
Jl*» -.JL\U ^ju.
*2^_- ^-«^oi ^.j ^D .vofco/
^--J^t-.
\okj/
a.
^otoK*J
1.
M*.
wilh
mau
disciples; für liiniself
sei
terms
:
here, or
I
in these
come
reinain longer in
Tlic
«
al
down
il
was thc
t
days ofthe
first
against the blessed
kingand
come there
,_a_3o
at
».
When
his arrogance, telling
fast),
while thc prcsump-
mau by sending him
a
message
the patriarch' have ordered that either
once; and
h is country, unless
tnake accord wilh us
jeered
•
v£OOt^.^Q-»^. aa \
oi»->o.
all liis
tuous
o m'j;
^öoVa^.^saAJO
jjj',!^
V—3l^>_jo
.
it
is
impossible
i'or
you
von
to
you do the king's Order and ours, and
ihe blcssed old
them
cpiilc
to
say
man
him,
to
«
heard these things,
We
have a law
lio
vdp.o?)
by our truo King, thal we arc no1 to receive anyone in these make answers fc-öapiceis) ins uch thal nur door is closed, aml accordingly we are nol free to answer either you or ho king. Bu1 waii for us tili the fiftb day of the weck when we sliall opcn the door, and whal God knows tobe right he will himself perform after we have opened between us. But for the presenl we will not voluntarily answer you; für you seek to acl wilh violence you know ». When lhal wretched mau learned these things, lie was filled wilh violent rage, and ordered ihc laid
höh'
for us
days, nor
;
l
il
il'
magistet to take excubitors and irons and bring
When I.
M.
ihal
man
as he
was ordered had taken
the blessed
man
the irons and
across.
embarked
in
a
LIFE
[29]
<->q»
1 ,
q^n«
).i4
o\.'.xxjx>
.v
\
Lyn
^a2l^o(^6
.oooi
i
^_«,_K^)
)ot
jl.«.>,\
..
yQ-iJäoi
-.^..^V-aS.
oaA
.•aiok.'al
s;
ö^asoi/o ,ydiov\ 6C^-a_»i
.Q,,yV: oo
fj5o
LsL^oo
29
-.ön^m a\
jKx^f^o; jf-aL^.0 iocxo
(ooo<
i«
A o °";
)
^o
Li../
r.
OF Z'URA.
a.^ v -
jJo
^-»IVl;
^3
jju/
L^!^>i
jj»
Liao .^^X^. ^is_flOo Jj-io -.sJl»'^ jl.» ^io Ls»
)-,.j' fJ t
oolo
J^-Lij ^--/
:
Jl
ool
^-./
>-»öi
m\
n
>£jjoK^./o
otJ-io
Ms. .aa-^aau
1.
cutter l'etcli
(^pd;j.wv)
had
wilh die military force and they
the Idessed
mau, when he was on the point
gone that
mighl
lio
of landing on
other
llie
wind took thc cutter (Sp6(/.wv) and turned it back, and sidc, something And again a second time it was im the city side whence he had started. they returned, and approached; and, when they were just about to fix fche ladder (ax.Slx), it was as if a man grasped the boat (xocpaStov) and witli mighty like a
1
'
,
force placed
it
where
Again according
it
started.
to that
which
rhou.iüvzpto;j
if it
written aerain,
l'orth
»
2 ,
«
They knew
something
was they wlio were
lazy,
and they proceeded to go on
(xapaßioy),
«
The Lord was making war
and the bencli was torn put of
away and mounted upwards wretched man understood
that
on behalf' of the blessed mau.
for
little
as it
as
l'ar
—
2.
Ps. LXXXII,
5.
—
3.
therc
the
llieir it
came boat
sprang
eye can sec; and then that
was God's power which was contending
And
quickly wilh cries of lamentation they
them, and everyone was seized with wonder. Ms. um.
»\
from end to end, and
it
escaped to shore; and they went and told these things
1.
nearer, like what
Israel
lightning and suddenly smote
of
like a llash
not nor understood
he was enraged against the cutter-men
And, as they were struggling and advanced
board. is
as
written
is
thatthey were Walking in darkness
Josh., \. 42.
to
those
who
senl
30 •
\
I.
V"
JOHN OF EPHESUS.
wVmfo
s
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an Instrument
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on
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in
ii
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tha1
whosavvhimal
the sightof him.
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seized all inthis torment and manifest sentence
roquital Cor his blasphemy he lingered tili the which the blessed man fixed as the term and said. "'
vveel<
,;
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days
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fifth
day of the week 5
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the Sfth daj
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the
same da3 he who
ofthe
Maundy Thursday butlbis does not ;
agre,
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man
accompanied by sliame seized
rcceived
all
liis
burial
the parLisans of
und perished
and
1 ,
fear
wretched man, and
llial
joy reigned over the believers everywhere, while everyone
was amazed
at
how God wrought this miracle in him. When the partisans ofthat wretched man could not by reason oftheir shame find whal to say, they devised a plan, saying, « Whereas on the day which Z'ura
the blessed man's words,
decreed for the patriarch he dicd, he used enchantments against him, and he died on gloritied,
tliat
same day
confess that
God had heard
against the blasphemer. blaspliemies, he prayed »
And
».
his voiec,
For,
and
when
and had awoken
said, as he
'The Lord awaked like a slecper and
used
a
lilvO 2 .
man
l.
enemics make lumult. and they
22 Apr. ncr. to Lib.
A. addressed a tetter to
Pont.
:
who
18
Mar
Jaffe\ sul
'/..
Pont, right.
'
/ach.
or indication of date.
—
Rh. 2.
'
nx.
19)
anno
gives a similar accounl
Ps. lxxviii, 65, 66.
of his
seasons,
all
vvho hath shaken nff his
in ,
if
Lent. lie
storj ol
God; sincelo!
silcnl,
hate thee have
must have been20Mar.;but seep. 30,n.2.Verj probablythe whole in Lib.
al
Lord behold the blaspliemies
but this was Tuesday, and nol
Justinian ob
sentence
his
rcappviria
pray and say
to
presumption against thee, and 'Be not quid nor
tliine
willi
he heard the openness
wine, and smote bis enemics behind liim' of
were ashamed and God was man liiniself wonld
so these inen
and the believers rejoiced; and even the blessed
his
\
lifted
Eastei
died on is
a
up the head
A-as
23
Thurs.
Mar., and in
Lent,
ii
baseless and the date given
death but withoul
mention of
r
b.
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againsl thy people" to repeal
in
besides the other things vvlüch the blessed
»;
and over
his prayer
And
his incense.
delay to show the power of his prayer
in thal
indeed not
justice did
And
blasphemer.
man used
so everyone
the things that were done through the saint and at the through his prayer, and gave thanks to God, and wroughl deeds of power especially al his labours and his petitions and his crying and his tears
was amazed
a1
night and day,
knocking
al
all
Even when he was
because his mind was dwelling above
would suddenty gush upon
his
loudly.
face,
and
resl
And someti
laughter with
his lips.
in
sitting
lieaven
his
s,
in
in
among
when
he
do
this before
his
his
two hands
knees, and ihns he
would cry
was displaying the
the middle ol his sp
h al
cl
I,
Ps,
did
so.
until
l>\
to
virtue
ol'
appearance
rful
which
appearance of laughing sobs overpowered him, insomuch with us he often
the angels, Ins tears
wish
him, and he would beat
head upon
his
and speaking with men,
forth perforce, while he did nol
men, and sobs would spring up
without
hour evcr passed [Vom him
not one
thal
so
God's door.
tlial
h<>
ol
displaved the
while speaking
the freedom (wappvicia) which
1
LIFE OF Z'URA.
33
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enjoyed with him her,
fat
that
in
weeping? This
t
went so
I
would say
me,
my When
speaking, and distress his
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to us,
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far as to
presume
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to say llius
how
their
Know, my
is
113/
:
«
I
occur
my
to
mind, and turn
him between ourselves
among men, my mind
it,
our
suddenly saddened bv
But
».
did not want to do this while
son, that
even adjuring him by God
mouths eease not even
Why
i>,v
B >-=ar-,
not occupied with us or in that
again while weeping yield to constraint and say constrained to speak
14.
sorrow thus suddenly seizes you
that
ölten entreated
life,
|iai| *.
—
1
sins suddenly
I
manner
B
12.
us that your niind
teils
to
[6.
—
midst of laughing you are
In
which you are saying lic
—
ins. "*»»
U-£o-
to :
«
to teil
my me
joy to privily
inform me, he would
When, my
son,
I
am
looks at those above in heaven,
for a short
season from praises, and sobs
am neglecting to praise that me pn account of myself, how Creator who created me, and have eeasod to make petitions for ihe forgiveness of my offences, and am sitting in intercourse with men; and this and And so was amazed at this other things urges me to cease speaking ». rise
within
1
I
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1.
Sic syr.
PATR. OH.
—
T.
XVII.
—
F.
1.
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34
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Here the exlracl ends.
—
3.
öl'
which
Ins soul
was
flocked
and as
niiii'i\
inen
as
iiiany
hundred
a
And thereupon
monastery.
Ins
—
Infi.
lie
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i.
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lt>Oo
yOO^O
Ji-PÜl
and the kindness
city
^w-
lo strangers
and strangers from every place
du account of the report of his charity,
liim
to
Jod
with great zeal, so that in conse-
lull
quence a multitude of the poor of the
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U^.\ai
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will)
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saint's disposition, as well as at Ins humility
und poor men
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until
eighty and
were on some days prepared
laliles
made
greal
in
cauldrons and appointed
wen: continually cooking and
wlio
making bread; and in Company own hands make himself into an attendant While the blessed man was thus illustrious in
with niany he vvould with Ins
with cheerfulness and joy. all
things, and deeds of
liim.
the
cient,
whole
city
and'
ilicy
Kjy/.v7,7'- T-i.
the rehuke of those
kept
power and signs were every dav wrought through
narrate each one of which
to
greal
in
fear
we have omitted
used already to Hot'k to
liim,
sincc
we
are not suffi-
with the whole Senate
who saw the greal freedom of speech (icappviaia), and who had the power of death and Life after God, were
and
dread
of
liim,
and
everyone
pul
greal
faith
in
liim.
Then and
1
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all
the heretics
cried
in
thechurches and raonasteries were sorely dejected,
againsl the
king everj
day
in
great
assemblies
:
«
If
the
LIFE
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1.
Ms. k*a-A
corr. v. D.
;
and
in the
to
name
of
üooiji
will be ruined »,
and the king and queen
be a sedition
(crafft?)
depart i'rom the city limits, while
prepared a place for the blessed the
it
in order that tliore miglit not
it,
begged him
city,
|N~»-«L
Ij-i^"
I..
Syrian Joes not leave the city,
when they saw
I-01A/
man
in
a certain
which was Dercus thirty miles
<>lf,
camp
and
while the blessed Theodosius also the patriarch
and
(xaffrpa)
in
evil
queen
the
Thrace
he set out thither,
><<
of Alexandria
been
liad
and thereafter the blessed raen dwelt there together, And after some time again ou while that camp (xzcrpa) thundered praise. there
established
;
account of the inclemency of this place they withdrew to another; and aftcr
some years the blessed Zura place, left
his disciple
linished his course
Hananva the presbyter who
and r
the place, wlio himself also had been trained witli
of his
blessed master Habib in the manner of
these lines
we have comprised
condemnätiou
for the
and passed over relate
life
all
his
Oi'
him
—
2.
See
p.
it.
same
having lifetimc .
triumphs which we have omitted
reason that our time
is
not long
enough
them.
'sueeeeded him'.
'
In them 2 man Zura, dreading
of both of
The history of the divine man the blessed Z'ura 1.
to
him duringthe
the story of the holy old
omissious of
for the
asleep in the
feil
was next
is
endeil.
for these t"
i
Ij.
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36
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"i-»i ^.\»t .t.a>/i ,-u.a.. U*.ß\ f. 161 \ b, where ho heading is U.-^ ^--a. '.;-'» U"jm |s>.\»1. joL, and C, f. :!7r. where the heading is :i, where the heading is U&U ^~&*i |Cw>-»l. ,A W ,*> U.-a^i^po »i-a* |x=ai,, |fx^»i.. in thi> eh. l&-^£-^ 4. P ^*? £ a /have nol Lhe paginalion of P. 2. B 3. G U«.° b™?5. C »_»;m\ &lo. li sing. in. c ß. 7. A r?V»8. P ins. ,J~ P om. 9. P ins. ^wcorr. to wv^«>;. 11. b l^osc^» -^- _ 12. I! .cao3jo (sie), ?'"' ° deleted. 13. 1' ^ov^avi^a. 14. \
This eh.
1.
is
l^^li-p ^-a-,
contained
P,
in B,
l
'iV: \",
f.
1
— —
_
is.
C.
AC
—
15.
;»|L V
B om.
19.
ß
NEXT THE
When we John,
vve
sei
ins.
16.
o».
—
fact
facl
who wroughl
the to
il.
P
<*^s-
—
_
life
—
c ol^i^/ v^/o22. P om.
a
we
multitude take
number
of
1
-
1
1
<
hislorv
17.
C 3/v
upon ourselves
<>f
lliis
li<
thoughts,
conflicting
_
»I\
in
to narrate severally
lliese sanie
saints,
we
sliall
of unending writings; and for this
triumphs only that belong excite the
praise
of
God
bore themselves manfully
thej
related
21.
^/o
through euch of
to
that in
labours
the is
those
in
the course of
withoul shrinking, while by reason
<>f tliis
even one only of the triumphs of each of the
further thal
saints thal has been in liim
if
into a greal thal
^>^j-(
OF THE RLESSED JoHN THE PEIiFECT NaZIRITE.
to
that,
the days of their
lad and the
—
_
approach and reeord
l>>
them are enough
1»
ow —
ins.
vvere vvrought
we considered
all
B
20.
HISTORV,
hear them, and Imw
justice
S^'-^W U^-lo
exposed ourselves
the signs thal
of each of
TS
ourselves
wander and extend
who
—
—
—
—
llllllli
consequence of Lhe
reason
—
-
om.
-
III.
:
^ —
:
1
vj"w
:
:
is
sufficient to indicate the divine
jn
it
is
in
the
power
<>!'
power
experl tasters
liidden
t<>
know
6
Jjjoia^ laS>
J.>Ȋia*;
8
);VJ^>;i jot-iaJLiöo
13
JJa-^io
ou»
.•)a*j»/'o oljls'/
yoK.acv.cQ-s;
)^ caaj;
12.
18.
the
C
^
^
l0
,-io
•
.|.-o'oj
)-*.-'^o;
.oila^^,
;•
—
B
6.
I
sing. 13.
P
L
ÖU
— l'w-
whole taste of
— —
1-oV.^o-
C om.
7.
—
C um. P
l',i.
many
voaiy^^
y.*l
UöW C
P om. — for v —
recording
yoou'fl^p «.i»iol;
.-J..3L..to
h
'Jb^olVo
U-3^?
a tree
ins.
P
2.
B
8.
sing.
K»-(-
—
from one
<xaa.o»o.
—
—
—
P om. »
20.
C P
A v<"ov
;;.
P
Im»?-
B
9.
—
16.
—
)^o^^o*
oö»
ch.Jl2uls
Jooi
JfcooV;
iat^
—
^.iCLJi
^^
\.^l
B B "»» C "ö^10.
.•
therefore,
fruit only,
received
serics of saints,
liis
who
on
in truth
is
ya\
—
—
IT.
B
11.
BP
>= #fc9.
»^]*J-
signs in order, only presenting
man
*
vpo^*; ILio^i.
diu.
this account llie
we
abstain frora
triumphs gained by their
labours and the manner of the signs to the meinory of expert hearers. perfect Idessed
+3
k».).J t..co..»*iö;
P »wo
'i.
ins. «*;.
.Jjot
jJ.oJL_^0.\
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.-yoKoL^l/o
Ut»a; 15.
I0
^
odv~;
)Jor,.\ l4
^.^.\oi
^_«3»...L.;
'
-.Vio/o
Jjl*5;
vf-'?1
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)„.N-A1; )oa
Jj»-ca.3
"J-olco
v ok.*TcoU'o
AC
14.
J-iot
^.,.
^ JL**jJ
v^ n
^.io Joot ,^1.00)1
It-tJo
^i
loj^^co
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1
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Jjuso^
^_iö
jL»l/
37
yoou^.xi.^
«.\ K-/i JjUoL2
jfcCS.3j.*>
j.iocxJi».;
B Kl*«; Ä
U— —5. B U;cb
.
Jl^a3j.i0» '"r»l f3 ''ofcsjs J.-*.^.*
^j-COV 3 '
1.
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7
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Jjot
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Ji-^-S Jj/ )_ä>»I^ooj
oota
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'«».iOL^ol -JooiJ
)v.ioai^>
)-=>»
•
'Jlöl/j
:Jv-.ia-^
J-iot
o.x-.'k.io
—
THE NAZIRITE;
LIFE 0F J0I1N
[37]
one worthy to he third
This in this
training from his boyhood in the great and
renowned monastery called that of Zuknin', while from the very beginning of his training he would consider in himself and say, « Whal profil have from the fact that I feed this body the end of which was doomed to bc I
loathsome and disgusting decay? and wherefore do aniass and lay
worms?
up störe
in
it
for
multitude
a
1
by a quantity of food
of creeping
things and of
he heard further what the l)lessed apostle writes saying,
»; since
« Food belongeth to the belly and the belly to food; but God shall make an endof both » 2 and further that also which is written reproachfully to those who concern themselves with the sustenance of their bodies, « Ye took your ,
pleasure upon the earth and were wanton, and ye fed your bodies as for
day of slaughter
1.
Near Amida; see
»
3 .
eh. 58
(l'ol.
131
r
b).
—
2.
1
Cur.,
vi,
13.
—
3.
James,
v,
5
a
B
162
r
b.
JOHN OF EPHESUS.
38
A
10
V)
Uoö->^ ^^j jloj-uoi oi^o^ >*\^ ^oi ^o o\ M?
C \
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276
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;
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^ x~.o:ji
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;i.
J^
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J^/'o B
v
16
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oCSo
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J-~a^"
B P
1. 1>
11
c
o/
ins.
—
oin.
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ir,
J°>^
Jjl^./;
6.
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7.
J~^ioo
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—
2.
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C »=v
LI
iS/o-'—
12.
_
C »•» P
ins.
W'heii
ihm
****> ,^>.
—
>-»i»^ W-
a
lie in
stranger
which spring up
.'''owso-.o-o^j
j-\
JJ
_
:;.
C
^ov^.3
—
15.
i. BC Vj.V^ 1' om. - 5 \ ins. I;» ^»- — C u»ai.o|3 ^^* P '»^oP- — 10. P U^=;u.iCvm=^. C " (in. in laier hand. — 13. C ov*""^j fl
—
oin.
—
C>««>v
13
9.
pl.
things turned his
these
zeal deeided for himself that he vvould bc a
pleasure that coraes through
saying,
order
in
,^-ofco
JJ /
/
to all
in food,
things of the world
^>';/
">>^? JK^oa)^ :J^~a L^J^ v .Jjä Joe* ^.V- ^soi ya2» p .\^.K'jxLi
mau through hearing
the blessed
thoughts upon himself, aloof from and
A
-3.
^°
yOOiiKi; ^_^ot
-'^ilS^aj^ jk-j^-L-too
JjLioo
Je^i>>-i"..6oo
B
^
^j.o/;
M^
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JJ
J-^^-* J-L^o^ ^*a:>oo
\ä>*\~~
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Av«^ i',.
m°>
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K*>
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vooU^
J-Jusa^
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).^....a
,yo^
Joi-Sx ssuJj;
..JK*J^~"K*>
jo^fcoo k-oö,
Jju^; .'Vio/o ''^DQ^aS
jJ
a.
M
v^jk^o
)j/
,^-JJ
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.\
.,
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JJ
v
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:
3
J-ä^-m
Joc*j
:,
•
[38]
«
I
for
my
pari did no1 depart
turn hark to them; bul
to
is
it
man
bodily tastes
llie
from the
enough that
have sei myself to be a stranger to these transitory things, in order to run aller the things thal pass noi away; and through holding aloof from remembered and desired the heavenly blessings which corruptible things I
I
the blessed Paul indicated
uor hath
liiin'.
love
casting of
it
all
rm body
fervenl
zeal
kind excepl in
risen
said,
into the hearl
These
I
corruptible in
and
of
Eye hath
'
and pursue
musl run after
I
(
Ol
nor ear heard,
seen,
vvith
for
my
all
them
thal
strength,
things behind me, except the ordinary nourishmenl
order to sustain
deeided for
ii
ordinary bread, and
And thenceforth
9.
himself thal
ho vvould ea1
water and
place of herbs he used to mix with I.
nol
man. what God prepared
sali
110
the
blessed
food
ai
mau
all
or ordinary lentils,
these Ihe leaves of a
in
of an\
while
certain large
.
p
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^3/
J^-oJi
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4 .
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1
('.
>
it
was
thal
;ill
monastery called shigra \ eating from il and
inside the court of thal
the summer, and in the winter again drying the produce of
eatins what was
while
left,
all
members
the
onlv
this
in
did
he
obey;
not
bnt
would urge
of his convent
was
hiin to desist from this distressing practico that
and
distressiüg his body,
obedience
the
and silence and
went even beyond the liniits, qualities that befit the humide and obedient; so that, if anyone stretched ou1 his [- ürjL -m) and finger and stuck it in his eye, he would not raise his face to if he said him, and, with and speak his mouth look at liim, or open tmmility
in all bis
other relations of
life
,
>
:
hiin,
«
Take an ax and come tum
boulder that
not
is
of al leasl inquiring
out the rock?
1.
»,
oul
How
a o
bnt silently
this rock over
of Plihy, N.
Singara (Shigra), the this sense,
11..
name musl
though unknown
he should'.
—
'i.
xm, be
to the
B 'boulder'-
9 is
or
o,
«
Come
dig out this
he would again not delav for the purpose 4 over » or « dig r am I to 3 turn the mountain »,
they often
take the iron and begin; so thal
A.r. to P. -Smith 'anchusa tinetoria'; but this seems
the 'syagrus'
l
dug
meant; but, as \Ur
presumed lexicons;
to
cf.
;
to
-'
be Syriac. eh.
>1.
be a
tree ha
35
\
bush, nol given
«^v b
like
and
its
13
V
6.
live
(
v *
a
'large
name
is
124
Perh.
tree'.
town of
to the
B-jveivon«,
eh. 54 (toi.
fa.
>M'?
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JjuLaoo^ ^-pS;
o&
v ii
3
U^*°
9
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p
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39
c*S. 0001 ^--3^' oit^oo^ «Jus
Jioaj;
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k-/
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Jl
THE NAZIRITE.
LIFE OF JOHN
[39]
often u
f
b
.
-
3.
B
276 ii.
162
b.
JOHN OF EPIIESUS.
40
bo^
o*ot>
4
Jv-^s-i All
i
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1)
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^o,»ooJ^
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1.
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—
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13.
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K> J.JLSOIO
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2.
14.
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9.
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— 3. C P ^•w-
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15.
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B
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10.
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7.
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of hiiu,
trial
whal was ordered him,
—
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^a^lS^io»
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[40]
thal
without delav begin
once
al
man whoever he were
said to him
'
Stop',
and then he would cease.
Again
a
made by him
place had been
would spend the
resl
in the
monastery-enclosure, and he
day or of the night there,
of the
in
vigil
without
measure and prayers withoul ceasing, so thal in consequence of these things liiere was generated for him lii'si sorrow of heart, and floods of tears of
weeping by nighl and by day, insomuch weeping, and the hair of his head
greal
thal
lashes from
number all
of times thal
he used to knock
ii
'
before
wlm saw him were amazed and wondered
used to
call
al
feil
God
bis eyelids off in
front,
shed their from
in supplication,
the
while
him, and on this accounl they
him, 'John the perfecl Nazirite', while he was thereby openly
preparing for the contesl with the demons eventoblood, insomuch that sonmlimes his
nii ml received blows in the contest and was silenced, so that, if there was anyone who was presenl and saw him, he thoughl thal he had a demon,
in
thal
secrel
1.
I.
he had become silenl and had secretly contcsl
e.
beal
lii
with powers liead
on
II
i
<
:
id
,
/y.
cf,
eh.
in
his -|>irii
entered upon a
and authorities, and during the intervals I
;
(toi,
19
r
b).
*
.
OF JOHN THE NAZIRITE.
LIFE
y]
yn^nj; j^o^
yov^-oojo oiia^ vCL^^iojo U'^-l oooi 2
Jl^io
t3
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13.
—
of the contest he
14.
was
p
pl.
—
lr,.
C
<»oil-.
so hard smitten
—
16.
tliat
speak with hiin and think that he was dead. contended;
and
last,
at
steadfastness, he gave that time his
when God saw
G
ins.
laboured at
—
was given
there
And his
of his
inen
in
him and
his eneniies,
reading the
words, while
in the
Scriptures,
and he
instead
bul
Scriptures and the
were
in
of tliis
commen-
the heighl
of his intellect, even the scholastics and the other
learned in the llolv Scriptures running
they
his
and from
which inen marvelled,
were unable even to comprehend and take
words and the depth
who were
1;
so for tenyears this sain)
confidence
Ins spirilual sighl cleared,
him great perspicacity
to
-
G ^_A*N'
everythihg he would utter a series of constant prayers; and through
taries, so that inen
s.
others would approach him and
attained to high and marvellous conceptions (Öewpta?) at
though he had not
pref. o-
low-
him strength and victoiy over
mind was enlightened and
12.
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amazed and praised and
to
him
glorified
to
hear his
God.
And
afterwards he attained to authority over unclean spirits, and over great works
ofhealing; but,
many
if
we
record these severally, as we have also stated above,
sheets of parchment
//?rr,:) will
not suffice us.
163 n.
vttva
When
the blessed
C r
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a.
JOHN OF EPHESUS.
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John
—
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14.
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CP
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15.
—
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3.
C
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—
B
ins.
B um.
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'i.
—
years
and
1 ,
and great constraint
forgotten the words ofour Saviour I
deny
also will
lil'e
in
sa\ ing to liim.
wilh others
a
>;
in
this
Life
all
the leading
says,
And
>.
nun
the blessing of those
Jo^j
^~/?
_
5.
B xpov^>-
_
i^nUso-
of perfection,
men
in
it
the
monastic
nks ol lil'e.
—
Vmitlii 2.
who
heretical
and accordingly thc blessed For
«
'Whoso
men among
of the convenl also
my part I have not
shall den}- nie before
fallier,
2
Then
».
he
the chiefs ofthe bro-
went out
after the blessed
more desired by us than
is
day being found npon them, while the blessed
said,
«
Would, my brethren,
have been persecuted
were expelled
Mattli
— —
submitted
for
that vve could attain
righteousness
fame of the blessed John was heard also over the whole
A
-o«"3
B ^"~l
the
i
P
<;
so they found a certain monastery and Look up their abode in
his
J-=>^'
12.
And
ol
),-2lä>
so theA sei forth and went to another district, hoping
for the
man encouraged them and to
11.
13
Fallier wlio is in heaven'
Death wilh ymi, our
God, not even bread
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—
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leftthem, and departed, while aboul thirty
man,
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B
(Kvayjcvi);
who
my
liim before
therhood and the leading
iV qj/
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man prepared towithdraw from among them, saying, inen,
.«jlao
Po*
machinations assailed his convent uiulcr compulsion
'
—
sing. 9.
twenty-five
conipleted
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—
3
in 521
Ibid
see [nlrod v,
10.
vve
I
sake 3
'
it,
district,
196 as Ihe dale ol the
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while
and
beginning
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13.
18.
B om.
I;
7.
who were
—
19.
P
l-»:'-
sick with various diseases and
was
while everyone was amazed and thanked God
ofthe saint's martyrdom,
who had
evil spirits
him would confidently
in
i.
e.
;
so that
we
in his exile
lieal
also
went
(eijopfoc),
and.
when we had sat down to take f 1, live demoniacs together with their hands tied behind them and howling beat down the door and came and entered foaming; bul the blessed man rebnked them, and ordered them to go to the martyrs' chapel and lie down; and so they went; and, after we had had supper and everyone had gone away to rest, he himself went out and went and made a prayer, and expelled them all; and they were found in the mornAnd we saw it, and were seized with ing at peace and in their right minds. '
amazement amazed
at
at the
power
him, because
of the saint's prayer. after severe labour he
We
were further specially
was even
so not remiss; for
monastery, and onc fig-tree inside it, and he went and brought sand and laid il on the south sideofthal tree, and he filled
there
1.
was an enclosure
Sc. thf
demons.
in that
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and he continued kneeling
;
through the extreme noonday
lieat,
while
wc were parched even by the shade in consequence of the heat. Again, when they had passed a short finie, they were again driven from thal place also, and that vvhich had been sent to them l>v the erace of God was taken by th'e heretics, while this also gave much pleasure to the Idessed man. who said, « They haw relieved US of a hodily bürden that, we mav rnn alter spiritnal things
holy John
course
in
in
the
same
But, after twelve years had been completed
».
the conflicl
(-/.-<>•<
exile (e£opia),
the time of the saint's end,
ivords of grace teil
thal
used
to
perfeel
This
in
performing
vvoulil bi
in
its
and wenl
come
us what line of virtue seemed
courses of justice uothing
martyrdom
when we were
the other lines in God's sight.
I.
of the
is
to
to the
to
obligations,
in in
rest
by the
ended his
1 .
Before
when had heard the mouth, we entreated liim to 1
be greater and more excellent than
Tlie hlessed
greater
mansions of
with hitn,
ou1 of his
Lim
of persecution, he
man
said
:
I.
«
Among
all
the
God's sight than Submission thal vvhich are comprised
all
is
the types of
!
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17.
in
erasure
virtue that bring near to
I!
in».
God
mission
is
°'«-
II.
».
same blessed man by
to the
us.
Again
«
thus greater tban everything,
second question was presented
a
you have
as
If,
how
is it
said,
our father, Sub-
that \ve see triumphs
wou
and hermits who had not Submission, and by the other blessed by men moreover who also wrought miracles and great acts of power, and lo » these did not live in Submission, and their virtue was manifest to everyone? and words, divine the brother, our The saint's explanation. « Consider, solitaries
an example of the power that Every man's work
they will themselves sliow
We
them.
hear the holy apostle saying,
1
manifest; for that day shall
him
IVoin
in that he says,
make
'There
it
is
manifest
'.
And we have
is great fear of falling into
hidden
sliall
'
in
be niade
learned again
God's hands'
2 .
And again we hear the prophet proclaiming of God's judgments, 'They are 3 Whence is it now* teil me like a great deep that is nol fathomed at all' said that on the dreadful day of judgment to manv among those who as you .
were distinguished by acts of power and by signs and by miracles the words said to those of our Lord will be spoken in answer, which in his parables he 1.
(p.
I
',g,
Cor., in, 1.
e;,
13.
perh.
—
2.
llebr., x, 31.
means 'Ma>
ii
—
3.
not be?'
Ps.
xwvi.
'What
is
;.
—
i.
This phrase whicli occurä again below
the difTiculty?'.
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who said to him, 'My Lord, have we no1 in tliv name name done acts of power?', and he on his side will saj And again in the rase unto uu know von not' 1
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prophesied, and in thy to
them,
'
of those
Verily
who
their courses in Submission for God's sake, setting their will aside
of their masters and of their brethren,
tliat
even the appearance of virtue, whence
which was given spirit
2 ,
as
final
3
?
ihai
according
those
liis
gospel
to the
ed IVom death to
life
\
l.
eyes,
o
can
teil
we understand
prQvision
who have
speni
made
me
blessing
tlial
is
llieirs
in
'.
—2.
is
one who doeth the will
the senvls of (iod's dieadl'nl
And my opinion
righteousness ?
come
life
in <\\if
Submission,
not to judgment, Iml have
» e
And whal
is
Ibid., \,3,
\.
-
3.
which
the Submission
our father?, and Im« should the
Mallh., vn, 22, 23.
if
the days of their
.JzyyAtovi saying,
A.gain the third question. in
il
and doing
the Lord of blessings to the lowlv, and to the poor in
Whence
judgment, and
ilii-,
is
say
and despising raen and shunning
he also states in the prophet, 'Better
than a thousand
i-,
l>v
I
finished
Ps. lxxxiv, ll(?).
man conducl
—
4,
John,
\
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is
so greal
himself
who
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this virtue has set himself to practise Submission, and how should he attaia to which you liave mentioned, which you have magnified beyond all classes of
virtue,
and what modeis are suited
observe?
The answer
»
and there
ol'tlie
for
the
man who
same blessed man.
many by being wishes of the man who seems submissive and by this leads to hell
and not
this
is
clination), that he
to
listen
to
to
cvcry
to life.
(which should
who
is
all
als.,
vary according
ready to snatch spiritual
Order that
the other things;
and
But the Submission which properly belongs
is
given
,to
fruits
him simply, and
difference
of in-
should be ready to
carry
it
oul
and
thinking
or objection against
him who
judging the man who gave him he orders some ad of sin ine wrongly', unless himself the model of the in carrying religion, wilh variance the
diligently, not
order,
man has ordered
'This that
submissive
is
Thereare many modeis;
loss for a Submission which while appearing Submission begets accompanied by pride and by eontumacy, and hy the personal
is
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the son of promise he assented, and he raade ready to in virtue of this will that was submissive to
kill
without inquiry; so lhal
and of obedience he
So
heaven.
attained the
position of chief in the kingdom made submissive for God's sake perform what has been ordered him without
therefore
he
should himself be ready to
who.
is
mau who gave the Orders; and the man who gave the whether he gave thein wrongly or rightly, shall himself give ac-
judging the ordera,
count for the Orders given by him; for the man himself also from whom he receives them has one who will reprimand him if he give a wrong order. Besides these things it is the duty of the man who professes religion by
means of Submission to have in him discretion in all matters lhal conduee to spiritual benefits, thal whoever he is he may carry them out discreetly; i. e. to wait upon the saints, to wash the feel of strangers, them
to
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his
tongue
himself about vigil
to
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relief
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his
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and rescue him from
his fraud
and from
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purity,
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the spirit, needs tears and prayers and
all
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In
escape From
pollution of the flesh and of
sobs. and parcity of food, and
abstinence from dishes of varying tastes, because the desire of dishes thal please the taste are
'
a deep cavern in
which
think not that precaution against fornication
which consists
that
which
is
manv
the open contact of
is
But
no standing-ground.
this onlv. precaution against
body with body, but
thal
also
times greater than this. the secret fornication of the heart
and of the thoughts, tions
in
is
is
that against
which we ought
to take special precau-
and be diligently on our guard; hecause manv are
the wiles by
which
therebellious fiends endeavour in secret fashion rather than in that which
open
to cheät
and submerge and
defile
the soul thal promises purity to
Lord, and strive by their deeeits rather than that which
and submerge with
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wound is
thal
llms thev
decreed againsl
He who takes equal precaution
open acts also does not yield
y
other matters secretly by
in
lo
in his
blandishments
the
of
shameful action, either secretly or openly, but more than his
open guard takes precaution ägainst that which ihe
oi'
_
dreadful judgmenl of torture thal
take part in these things?
and
'<&•*
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reason
and how shall they apply a plaster
ma\ escape from
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sighs, because there are
ihrough the enticements of shame, mcn of afflietion;
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secretly thal
inflicted
which
is
that
is
wroughl
is
administered openly.
and somehow lapse, secretly
or openly, even
done
in
upon the so
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secret, because
spirit if
penetrates
he be overcome
he should not despair
of
himself, and deliver himself to the Service of foulness, bu1 turn straightway,
bearing the aifliction of his disease,
to
the gracious
Physician,
who
will
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time to
the Physicians door, even
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for
a plaster
haltlos also to those
preserved in them, even to take
measures
who have lapsed despair of
When
life,
l'or
if
—
7.
Aiul fürther, even
to his inlirmity.
receive
healing,
and
after
it
smitten with another stroke, he should not even so neglect to run
from entreating
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his stroke, a thing
who
manv
their bodily healing witb
after the lapse of a spiritual
and delivering themselves
all fall
if
be again a
second
times, or refrain
which wo see happen
are smitten, that, as long as their
they be Struck
Life is
times, they do nol neglecl carefulness.
must
iuto the
So those
act, nol
hand of
also
falling inl
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their enemies.
tbese things are brought about in the case of any persons, that, after
they have been involved
in
any lapses. they thrust themselves
l:
v°
into the deep
cavern of sin, they are worthy objects for greal weeping and many sighs, in that, having fallen through a lapse, and having been a little besmirched
with mire, instead of running to have their stains washed away, through he shameful teachiug of those who caused them to lapse they resolved to
JOHN OK EPHESUS.
54
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J»ot
.JJ^iö vOOtA
lo-\o
)vlsl
)n.uJ. ?
jlosj
B
r
166
V-Jl/
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voot-^x— i
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a.
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ouio
—
C
—
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tlirow
themselves
remain
in the
C
Olli.
—
13.
CP W— V-»- —
completely
wound
which there
for
^ °^
St.
(
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<:
5.
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6.
10.
and voluntarily
filthiness,
of
oöi
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pit
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JJ
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;
llie
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ins.
1
Jjxj^o* oj^ )\-^;
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very submersion of their putrescence, which leads tliem to the
submersion of condemnation
i-,
into
:
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[54]
is
in
which there
no remedy, and
no absolution, and to the
is
bitter lamentation for
which there
im consolation, and the dreadful judgmenl of lorment which has no end In the case of those
ever and ever.
Cor
and perdition, their souls
been made captive
'
In-
them
repay
will
aller the lapse of a fall are
and the saving of their lives from the putrescence of
have delivered themselves
liim
who
samr pleasureof sin, and remain in the same den ofcorruption without having concemed themselves for the resurrection of
the
~initi.il witli
to the
Iheir
with
free
wherein
is
to
torment
llial
passe- not
I.
II
Tim.,
part of Ins possessions,
äince thej to
ii,
in
liis
to
the
have themselves seceded from him
the destroyer of their lives. Mntth.,
vm,
12.
with
away, and
Company
in
will
which are outer darkness,
weeping and gnashing of teeth, aecording
Life-Givei
themselves
inheril
and
choiee, the requiter of their service with
eternal
n turn for their affection with hiin and their remaining
make them
sin,
service of Satan, lo vvhose will they have
whom
if
säying
who have
ol
the
joined
they remain, they
LIFE OF JOHN
[55]
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7
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NAZIRITE.
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he tormented with hini; from wliom and from
will also
may we
all
be preserved, by
tlie
all
abundant mercy of the Lord
whose doings of
all.
These, our brother, are the words which at the instigation of your request havebeen spoken oa this subject; but they will he blamed by your sound
and great and spiritual knowledge on account of the t'act that they were spoken of fall and resurrection alike, and not according to the character of perfection, as your questions also strongly
the disposition of
all
of us
is
demanded; because we see that
inclined to and our will heut on a
we must
than on hastening to perfection; and therefore speak ahout the forms of our illness and the remedies
body be Struck with the ulcers of
fall
rather
inquire and ask and for
it,
lest the
whole (•
and grow putrid with the tumoür
sin,
of
nedioence, and we be thereby thrust into the abyss of tortnent; for we There is greal fear of falhng into the who said
learn from the divine Paul
hands
the living
of
God". What
:
'
has been spoken
is
sufficienl
the ineinory of the discreet ».
The history of the blessed I.
Hebr.
,
x, 31.
.lohn the perfeci Nazirite
is
I!
166
.
VS-solf.
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stir
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b.
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56
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whose case
life;
in
in.!\
also aptly be
Cörr.
tlie
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2 ,
sung
in
IHK
firsl
:
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I.
Travels und Slntlies
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in
to
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BROTHERS.
our time
words found
gained distinction upon
itself
in
Psalms of the Holy
the
How good
and how beautiful these two holy
for
to
lliaf
zeal,
of
come
in
A shorl dislance
birth
ilie
to
Nowthere was stand upon
\\\ of Ingila
Armcnia, and l)yakono\
l).
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—
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it
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3. 1. 0.
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eider
and he wen! and dwelt
order
is
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in
Ihe
Cor
brethren
they dwell together, as
Amida; and
ways
their marvellous
»';
the territory
in
JoOt
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crown ofvictory through
the
also the
towhich men used cxxxiii,
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to
Rabthä'in the territory oflngila.
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These two holy brothers were by
Psalmist.
Abraham was
I.
.M\l!(i
beautiful and marvellous
called Kalesh
\r'a
manu
2'
4.
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THE FOURTH HISTORY, OF THE SAINTS ABRAHAM
when they dwell together good and
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brethren
alike
is
it
is
written
in
from a village
whose liame was
in a
monastery called
a higli stone
thal
rigris
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si
of
Spirit
column and
monasterj
sce
map
in
;
Lynch's
,
OF ABRAHAM AM) MARO.
I.IVKS
57
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after
lie
had broken himself
for a
had seen began
to
space
And, when
himself ascended the column.
ten years by great labours he
ol"
his brother
whose namewas Maro
he also came and entered upon the road from the
it,
first
mile and
walk soundly, while those two brothers were thenceforward
illus-
trious for niighty labours of abstinence, until they received gifts of the Spirit also,
the blcssed
Abraham
power
receiving even the
of
working heahngs
being above, while his brother the blessed will have nothing to do with « Sir, .Man» shunned these things, saying things that gain very vain glory for someonc but deceive certain persons ». and
driving out denions, he
1
:
'
And manv would seek
assistance
2
with these; bu1
he
when
he
saw these
For persons Coming to be healed would shut his door and remain silent. Crom the very beginning also he had made a great segmcnl from a hollow tree
and
set himself
certain corner (ywvi'a
door, and
he
monastery
is
Ms. om..
—
;
it,
having taken
and he used to stand
would stoop and come
out
by
in il
inside the enclosure in a
il
And there was when he wanted;
it.
situatcd on the top of a mountain, and there used
snow there and 1.
up inside
2.
violent
winds
Text coi'ruplj
ilii~
;
is
to
a
for
little
this
be heavy
and so he would go out and remove the snow llie
sense required.
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452
OF RPHESÜS.
.lOHN
58
—
—
and recite the Service and stand, while hisbrother from above used to chidc li
im and say
is tliis
Woe
to hini
is
me,
:
«
Why
you?
to
sir,
atllict
forgive nie,
avzyy.r.i
burning of bitter thirst? is
made known by
But he vvould -weep and say
yourself?»
Which, pray,
sir.
is
orthe eternal torture
that afflicts for a little lime,
smoky
What good
Wherefore are von thus killingyourself? do you
llic
Lo!
how
bitter
is
the keener, this
thal
:
snow
does not end, or the
the intensity of the slress
torment of that wretched rieh
man'.
And
wretched body which has an end be tortured liero. and, be there sorrows or joys, they will soon come to an end, and it will noi When the blessed Abraham heard in liis soul and in Ins thoughts lasl ». for this
reason
lel
this
how God's judgmenl was always pitied liim in ilml hia colour
snow, used
man
to
urge him
also above found
ii
upon
his
go into
his
face
liis
heart,
and,
because
lie
the intensity of the
tree-segment, because ihe blessed
difficult to repel the
to carry out his brother's
and beal
to
depicted in
was changing nature from
violence of the winds, he inorder
order would comply, and would go inside weeping,
and say
:
c
\\
oe
is
me woe
is
me
the sinner;
»
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LlDOiO .\.£*.*-lll
i'l^l
.
ABRAHAM AND
LIVRS OF
5 9l
f
U-v-
U^e-ll
J,*x*j»
);oij>
J?oi;
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^3; ^^o
Ms. OK
will entreal for nie thal
may oscape from
I
that
torment?
these brothers were objects of marvel, their fame going as
Persians.
of the
thirty eighl
'
i'ar
And
»
so
as the country
And, when Abraham... thirty-eighl years... completed
years on the eolumn... deep and he... in bis days,...
When
everywhere arose and a greal uumber of people in the and of the cities gathered together, they went up... the blessed
a great clainour
villages
And what was purposed in the heart of the blessed Maro was known to anyone but when a ladder had been set up he first went up and, when he stood at the top of the ladder, he found the holy old man bending down and sitting with bis face to the east witb bis head between Abraham. not
;
and he bade him a farewell; and so he took him up and carried him out weeping, and handed him towards... below him"... the east and for And he entered and went [to] his brother's [place]. himself and prayed. And the multitude (oy/o,-) [was seized with sorrow] and affliction on bis
bis knees,
account that was more than thal while they cried and
said,
are thus purposed, [come
peace, because 1.
We
we
completed
28'.
-
2.
in
Do us
memory of the
holy blessed
man Abraham,
a kindness, our laiin r; and,
down] and
shall all be
should perh. read '28'
38 years [andl
«
first
comfort us
made glad by
this.
if
so be
von
and; go up at once in
And, ifyou du not come
ete the sentence as 'when A [had practised asceticisro and c< words whlcli follow in the copy. 1 can make nothing of the 2
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60
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And, being from affliction and many sighs will all go up there ». unable to speak to the people, he beckoned to thein with bis band to he And, wlien he had suppressed liis own tears for silent and wait lor hini.
down, we
a
short time and restrained bis weeping, he then said to
pray for me, and leave nie alone.
1
my
lor
them
:
«
Brethren,
pari did not desire this
and
my
may not be vacant, hope by liis prayers that, until you bring me down as he came down, shall But take the saint and wrap hiin up henceforth not come down hence. may not be deprived of my brother that for burial, and go; and pray for me, Now take away the ladder, and pray Abraham's portion with all the saints. n When this had been done and the holy Abraham had for nie ». wrapped up, the assembly dispersed, and each man wenl to liis place in Bu1 the blessed man would in peace, being amazed and gtorifying God'. Lord knows, but,
in
order thal
my
holy brother's place
I
1
I
1
jrreal
affliction cry
^t
be
The
iirsl
happened I.
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i
Mark, u,
nighl
My
Lord,
torment, but a conductor to
life ».
and day
conductor
t<>
instance in which the
in
12,
the case of
me
the
to (Jod.
saying,
«
power of the prayers
lel
of the saint
not this
was seen
wretched one ihr writer of these things.
"
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one
who
crying
to
him,
to
(ffYijxeiov)
Be quiet, be nie,
quiet. I
to the boly
of his
brothers,
nie
merchant 1.
was Struck
».
is
witli silence as
The blessed man
who
Mss. oin.
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JJ;
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6.
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to 1
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he same day as
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my
and pray
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Do
this child, to
housed
in
judge from
the
grave
were
to deatli
dead
not wail, wonian
». :
Then, as they used
».
And, guarding against the suspicion
may
for this
parents' sobs, said to them
Sir, he is
keeps his riches that they
God
to
your prayers, and save
(they said) in answer to :
my
me and weeping
us,
already
it
them
myself
Maro, carrying
Jolin sliall not die before .Man»
ment wailing jested and said before
J^^-/
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.l'JliO
parents used to
upon
to silence
wailed witli a loud voiee, and said:
happened?
a a)
my
your prayers do not persuade God,
if
example
say to
and' on
Perhaps God will
Then the blessed man, seeking et
life,
Ilave raercy
«
has remained to us.
him; since, tlie
into this perturbed
stroke that had slain theni attacked me, as
me, they immediately repaired
witli sobs,
'yO^
:
was born and came teil
.jJ.a.Xv
were acquainted with him, and every son who was born and, when tlie end of a year and a half or Uro years
tlie
»\^
I
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^-*t-»ö«
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A
P o W, I^JL.
used to die at
brothers
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ABRAHAM AM) MARO.
LIVES OF
[61]
and my mother
;
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».
the
vvhat
woman's vehe-
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of pride
like a
wise
not be sein and plundered, and
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62
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to him,
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for
some
ili-\
me
told
some
she, as thinking that he
to a certain
baby has alread^ passed brother,
Go do
thal
oppose the intent of
going l.
1
to
1
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was
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ripening
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the cause üf
tlie
and recover,
live
jesting with her in
This child
the grave.
in
The holy Maro says
and drop
to that
as hi-
who was
brother
I
:
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t
Im
to her
See,
«
:
presenl
Sir, for the
world
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:
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Then he
».
Brother, go
-m inlo that baby's mouth
baby, pray
And again
have told you
(thej
for
servitors'
wliom the dutles ofthe kitchen
Office;;
etc.
perh.
'kitchen'.
were allotled
foi
iin
—
2.
week.
and
in
That
him.
Tliis
said) he repeated
Thal brother,
•>.
a
said
».
in
command, went laughing and saying
rose your son from the dead by the eating of 1
i"
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went on wailing more than before, saying,
brother also (they told me) says
i,i
-voVio
from these lentils of these brothers you will gain
lentils in a cup,
to
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lentils froni the servi-
once
will at
son. through the nelp of the prayers of the sarne brothers
fetch
n^
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and he
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was not he who was
again taste lentils here
you do not believe
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motlier laughing
herseif
her,
sir,
now never
will
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silence
Henceforth,
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said to
and eat of them to
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these persons think that lie
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« Sir,
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here are the
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them and inserted them
my
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round and roused myself.
has roused himself
for the child
women
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P. <*;»wo.
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fbey cried eil'ect
will see
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to
that brother
me
tasted and turned
the Idessed
liere;
because
man,
«
Sir.
a deliverance by your prayers,
Hut the blessed man did not see them;
will carry,
Tlien be said to
until his
See!
«
:
the third time (they
at
i
gateof the enclosure
and they were nol ällowed face
my mother
of a
(icpötnowov) :
«
(live
bim
as he wants, and take him and go, rear bim for two
dying
one
Take some with
mouth, saying
And
».
and be also never saw the
only.
and bring him to
l.
tlien
him as a woman's voicc
but her speecli
said)
used to stand and speak to bim from
to set foot inside,
eat as
'i-ia^
moved my tongne round, and
And
pray; and perhaps nur Lord will
because
U^o/;
lentils.
saint says to
These things have been done to no purpose
sir,
^a-«--ß"
P l^»^»v
4.
ufc^/o-
lliis
l'atber is
is
buried
my ».
son, and
Ami
there
woman, lentils
to
more years, is
,,
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with stop:, reäding of
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ABRAHAM AND MAKO.
LIVES OF
[63]
no possi-
so they took nie and
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JOHN OF EPHESUS.
64 Pilo
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spiritual
was saved from death; and the power of his whose prayers blessing was dissolved and nullified througli my evil doods; for God nsed to work acls of great and marvellous power through liim in all the words father,
l>v
thal he
spoke even when laughing.
I
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came
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to to
liis
bu1 he
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loved
1 1
i
God?
would
in
dwelling
its
and did [adeed
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I
will, if
to
provoke and
I.
öii
mercy
person or
into leaving God's altar
in the
saints
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liim a sick
hateful to liim oiu'
possessed with
and
:
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as
that a
wretch-
his greal
power
who wen' slain for liis name, and me the wretched mau and provoker
I
irritate
like
And
God.
should l.now and anderstand, that here to usk
tim.es as
and coming to were one who pleased and loved God and did his have come to me and neglected the saints, le1 alone
liis
(«p«),
von oughl not
will,
thattime the multitude
numbers many
once drive him out, saying these words
a1
what has misled von
which lock np
of
frora
in
brother Abraham; which' was also very
anyone should come and bring
demon,
And
gather together to the saint CT D
it
there
was because
is
of
every man, not because of
another thing that von
my sins thal came up my righteousness. To I
LIVES OF
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so this
the vain praise
violently and with anger
as a great
and righteous
am
I
:
You do not know way to these matters
saying to you. If I
give
knowledge, as
women and
girls
and many persona
a fever, or of ulcers, or of affection
of the eyes, or of
once go and seize
affection of the head, or so as to tlieir
6.
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and possessed persons, and allow them an opportunity of Coming to
Iol fiends will at
it
jo
and console say reproachfully and kindly these words
the evil one's wiliness and deceitfulness.
me,
?
he were vexed with any particular persons, he would
if
sons, be not vexed at
of sick
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madnmn and man of evil life why do you come? man as if to drive arrogance from him and avoid
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man.
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if
one were
foam to
in
them, and
say 'Gojeer
will
work
in
in the face of
them withoul Maro',
for, as
soon as they bring them liere, as if our own prayers were indeed powerful and mighty and drove out fiends, the fiends who have brought about these diseases will abandon them, and in in
tlieir
deceitfulness depart and withdraw,
order to carry out the wiles of their deceitfulness, and cheat us into having PATR. OR.
—
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somc such tliouglit of ourselves as that \ve ourselves are indeed righteous and expellers of demons and healers of diseases, so that by this means wo mav he pulTed up and hc arrogant, so as to add disaster to disaster, and receive blows upon blows, and cease and remit these constant petitions to
God
for
if we were indeed righteous, and through the guiledemons' deceitfulness cease the rapid running on the road of
onr sins, as
fulness of the
repentance for our sins, and utterly sink be fulfilled against us the
stormy sea of
in the
sins,
and there
saying 'Thcir days were consumed in vanity,
and their years rapidly", which also happened to many, and they childishly yielded to the deceitfulness of the demons, and thoughi that whal to iln'in
in the
through the deceits of the fiends was truc, and
depths of
casting out
evils,
through
are sitting in a dark house, are
making
tlie
demons and healing
feil
was done
and were caught
vain suppositions that Ihey were indeed
diseases, and do mit understand thal
and their hearl
their souls a dwelling-place for
is
they
feeding on ashes, and they
demons, and Alling parts of
themselves with the stain of sins, and the demons are mocking
al
tliem
ause they are indeed casting them out with out considering our Lord's
1
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PS. LXXVIII. 33.
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As
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for
demons, to
me
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when
enough
God over these used all
sinful
me
seif,
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seems that the saints wlio
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and
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my
stained seif only; for
power and authority from
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their deeeit
spoken
have probed the deeeits of the
them out
the wickedness of the
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we not in thy name name do many deeds
not tremble at the pronouncement of despair addressed to those
out,
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Sic ms. ungrammatically.
ßre prepared for the devil and for his angels'
them
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demons
is
of,
ambushed
let
alone
vvithin us,
and their desires, think of ourselves
llial
we are driving fiends out of one another. were driving my Would thal own out » By saying these tliings every day to many tlie blessed Maro did not perI
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A
similar notion appears in eh.
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suade men not to come to him every day
being open to him to act as he did
;
and, being distressed, and
in his brother's
it
not
days by withdrawing when
he saw these, accordingly, in order to extinguish out of him the reputation of gravity, he
would speak
to
many with
simple and ridiculous words, and like a
Why then (apx)
come you to a madman? Have you, pray, seen anyone fouler than I am? Since I am bound to this stone like a malefactor, or as a vicious dog is bound by a chain that he may not escape and do hurt to many, know you not that, if it were open to me to escape hence, I should like each one of you have both made a house for myself and had a wife and children? or understand you not that in my case also it is on account of my sins and my spots and my crimes that God bound me to this stone, like a saying,
fool,
a
'
who
judge
puts a criminal in bonds?
man' 9 character and «
Yes,
for a 15ul
1.
sir, \ve
way
also are
of
lifo
come
used
to
»
But those who knew the blessed say
when
as to a criminal,
they heard diese things
and as
to
one
who
is
:
bound;
man gocs and sees even murderers when they are bound in prison ». who were not thoroughly acquainted with him, who saw the
those Ms.
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man thus distressed by the multitude of people and crying that they hindered him frora holding intercourse with God, wondered greatly. Once a certain layman came to him whose wife was barren and bore no children; blessed
and he knew his disposition, and had gained the privilege of free speech removing his (ira£p7)<jta) with him, and by chance he came in and found him nails, because his toe-nails were of vigorous growth, so that they were a
And, having prayed and sat down and begun pray for your bondmaid that she may have But he looked at him children, since I have no heir and hope of my house. » how is lt so-and-so, (i'pa), Then « him to says he and wondered, and' that you do not consider the words that you are speaking to the most wretched
two
finger or
fingers long.
to speak, he says to
him
:
«
Sir,
:
of all
How
men?
is
it
that
you say these things
heard the blessed apostle saying,
'
If
a
own house aright, how will he be able one who has not been able to pray for disposition barren of the
made 1.
it
—
2.
I
Tim., in.
5.
hath
me 1
to rule God's church, his soul,
Have you not
How
2
will
which has become by
progeny of good deeds, and through
fruitful in spiritual
Ms. oni.
man
to
not been able to ruie his
progeny, be able to pray
for
its
his prayer
women
that they
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« Sir, there is no difficulty may bear children? » The man says to him And if you vvith God in making the forraer fruitful as well as the latter. wishyou will have mercy upon rae. By God who chose you do not neglect nie ». Wheri he heard that he adjured him by God, he was inoved by two con:
wish
siderations, one that he did not
to state of himself at all that he could
do any such thing, and auother that he heard God's name and his hearl
man
trembled; and he said to lhat
about a matter that take
what
is
my
;
«
Why
concern and
is
did you
your wife, and you shall have a son, and you shall
man bring aware up, and gave
he said lul
it
to
is
a
il
him
of
And he
».
il
him; and, «
:
in
Observe
herb that
1
adjure
me by God
me?
Accordingly
too hard for
you without men being aware
will give
1
not
it
of,
call
and go hang liis
name
took one of his toc-nails and wrapt
order that he mighl not honour
that
it
give you.
is
not a martyr, nor
is tliis
it
lhal
God gave tliis
I.
man to
her and
happened, Lit.
'gracc
tool«
';
o
il
il
bündle hnaria*
See that no one undo and see
and wenl; and he hung
slie
seemed
martyr's dusl
il
on
his wife;
received conception, and she bare lo
i
it
as a marlyr,
it;
a
and son.
;
and nexl
year you shall carry your son also and bring Ihis herb wilh him to Thi'ii
on
it
Mar'o, no
me at
o.
once
When
everyone no ordinary wonder that so-and-so the
n x.-d
«iih
oil
and water
;
see Z^ich. Rh.,
vm,
6
and P.-Smith,
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v.
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JU-a^.
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woman had
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placed over these words.
reeeived coneeption
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jJo
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•.
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Ms. RiascUo-
2.
many
so that to
;
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Transposition marks ave (appy.
barren
"^^.ioo
ji.*_— ;
ju/ *^o *—.^.»oi .|t^ Joöx
^oIq^n.
it
presented
itsclf as
woman had reeeived eoneeption, And, many being amazed, they used until her coneeption came to delivery. to assemble betöre her and in great wonder eagerly inquire, « What is tlie a matter of doubt that so-and-so the barren
cause from which this has been brought about in you alter so long a time?
and
Hut she, fearing the saint's injunetion,
in
»
Order that the power of his
prayer and the miracle wrought for God's glory might not be concealed,
announced and
I
everyone
tu
do not
amazement
know what glorilied
:
man
So-and-so the blessed
«
and God gave me
it is,
And many
God.
are the
a
son
sent nie sometliing,
Then all men in God vvroughl
».
things that
through these two holy brothers, things that even surpass written records and (he capacity of the ears; but the acts of the lioly Abraham even far surpass tliosc of this man'. sliorten his
But this
history and run through
is it
enougli that in
I
liave
undertaken
things, one that miracles are from their character difficult to believe,
another that
1.
n
ihr texl
I
is
have determined
right,
from performing them.
the
meaning
V. D. and
I..
inusl in
in
my mind
be Lhat M.
translation
to
simple fashion, observing two
not to be
perfonued
fewei'
a witness with
acles
State the opposite withoul
because
emending
lie
th
and
mv slirank
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.)Loüo/o
but the tliings as in the
tliat I
to repeat in writing
Jfixi.0
the unbelief and doubt of
I
» ->
^as; )K^-SO
0001
^_».:^i.
mv
eyes as well
have only heard I
sinall
and a
little
inferior,
Even the actual things
1
,
bearwitness; I
because of
manv, abstaining from mentioning marvels
are greater tlian the ears can bear.
we have
Ji.mvi
bring to record the same deeds that
I
have seen and know, those that are
repeated
what
bi-«^
«.Jisj
c*JLio
have bolh heard and also seen to these
case of this Saint also
.
(la-sa^is? y<
nrnvi» b^*o jkJS.ioV/o b*>K*
and not
.^.OIO^O^O ILjot
-
\-*-*l
handwriting except only of tliings confirmed by the sight of as the written record,
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/
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.
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jj/
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yjL.»o;
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ooi..
ooi öt-i J001 yo[Loi
U-i vv
.^-\o^\
^-«^jO ^.ts-«Aoöo
jlo»_»_iöl ^.io
Vi'..i;
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Kiwiä*j oofco/* ool v3/i JJLSu/
I-Jl^^-Di
IolS.
[72]
that
that
we have
repeated for the glorv of God, and that God's love towards
commandments mav be known lo ns ordinary (ita.ppvi<jia) God gives to his bondmen before hiin. There was again a certain magistrate in the same village in which this sainl had his stand (with whom also was well acquainted) who was an abominable and impious man, an oppressor of the poor,
those w Im love hiin and keep bis (iSkütvk;)
and simple men, and how greai freedom
I
.nid all
one
who
caused orphans and widows to groan, and a perpetrator
wicked deeds of covetousness and of injustice and of rapine; and he had Ii
1
ibal
and
property
man
a
greai
house,
bore himself proudly in
and bondmen and
and other poor persons nsed always 1.
This perh. refera
to
mlracles onl>
bondwomen. And and widows
the world; and the orphans
bul see p.
to
3, n.
flee
1.
from him
and take refuge
'
ABRAHAM ÄND MARO.
LIVES OF
[73]
vm
oC^> )ooi
v>o
°>
.
y^ OOU» yo^ )^0
oOx
)ooi
)K_«_^o i^nb
..wJlSJLS »oi;j/
^v^
73
oot
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<^-»t-l»c*
<& Hp° P
•+*°l°
.)
i
.K..) vi
.-pö/» j.,aK.a\ fS\ll .J^oo-.; (.ia^J^ yoou^o t_*; oilS«^.Jui K_«^j .'J-a^
.•yaio-^1 JJLj.,3
vQ.a^-i.l
jJo
JoÖS;
^ai^o
.•yOOi-fc^Of-o
.^K*jso
^s/'
wjo
Jleujo J.-ioc*ie> y/ j-iasi .|j/ vi»Jl«
»3/0 ..ooio .JKjJLs MtJ&.
ooj
j^efco*;
)-IlL.;o
yoo.~ol ^-*.-a.-io
J_j_o»a3 f-a^/o '.)-V^o **°l •
yasao/;
jjuauia^o
oao,;
L,joö»..»..\
:
V-«-^fco
fcwjjjoioj.
y^
•
.
Then
the
keep what God has given
you,
for
.k-J~«^^ ^io »—..s
ousj V*^/
*»« /-•/ °
saint
Remember
house?
and again
'
am
1
3 .
But
for
1
my
me ye
I
pity you,
and again,
is
«
the saintsbefore whom these poor people
stirred
whose of
whom
my
himselfup afrogantly
will he did
according
your father ye do 1.
Zech., vii, 10.
—
Wherefore do has daily bread
-2.
to
»', so' this
Ps. I.X.MH.
6.
—3.
if
not
will
come and groan
what our Lord
Ps. xn,
-
'..
2 ;
delive-
some time
is
1"'
But thal wretched
<
of bis father the devil,
said to the Jews,
John, vm,
ol
a void thing; lesl
derided and scorned the 6.
make
Neither yet think that this power
at the instigation
man
will
l
widows
the groaning
son; since, however rauch
beroused against you, and von and your house perish.
man
him and and
fetch
son, beware,
in need.
Lord, and
impossible that
roused against evil-doers
;
^J*"
^r3"^
not overreach nor defraud";
shall
arise, saith the
part
it
it
My
plundering of the poor and
God's justice turns away, »
^
f21"*''
the father of the orphans and the judge of the
of the needy, therefore will
ji
the scripture that says, 'The orphans and the
that turn to
and again, 'By reason of the rance openly'
oot
would send and
you oppress these broken-hearted poor, not one of
widows and them
^
»
«
Jjoi
J^Aä; jo^i
^JO '.vo^/
°«
:
JL*-*
-.U°? °<* J'f-*-^ ^*?
J
you are not
).jjiä^Ö;
M
.^-.i
.-otofcs.../
J»so\>
gently entreat him, admonishing him and saying
in his
li
ooio
K^JS. ,^-xäj
Jju.^.0 <^J^ot;
Jjjsc^ ..po/ ,J .oj^Iao JoCSs» J»o.s^» ^*>~s i^«
with the blessed man.
m
17 r"
^'^^1
Jj/;
)Loj/o
..).xiL^'j
^S^»
,,JLjb,2>
V*?/?
-Kl./
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.
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ye^K ooio .JAJ^oV/*
"^»^.io
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14.
-
>
«
man
Sie syr,
The
will
of God,
*
17
v
a.
JOHN OF EPHESUS.
74
^_Aö,
o-i-o
Jj/
,n
«
->
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vai~
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r
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JJ
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t-
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3°
Jooi
^°
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Ul
v'b
*
1.
.Jk-wüo
Jjlsoio
V-s
Points
saying,
«
..
above the
looi
J-a.1»
J.ioJJ
Blessed man,
sit
;
.«\
jJ |
^*-o'U k-Jt-k- .^? o«
may
be
U^t"*?
none withyon.
I
to bis lot.
falls
•'«>-"
When
».
ßvery
Those who
that captive
man
one had taken captive had said these things, he tnrned bis
to hini
Woe
«
:
presence; bu1 the blessed
away by
for
you,
bis feelings, called
mv
cursed von; far be for
Li
from me).
repent and
:
Let justice do vvhal
«
man shed
while the blessed
».
ünt
of his house, while
tears
al
and said
midnight
the blessed
fire
likes
o
l.tny son.
e
:
il
1
the sinnet- have
with you will entreat
1
von, and perhaps von will be delivered
nunc haidined, and said
You know
I5ni
man was
bim with a lond
son! a pronoüncement of wrath
has gone out against you l'rom heaven (forthink nol that
..-/
'ool
I
distressed aud wept, and, carried
down made
*
will on your stone, and mind yourown business. know to be proper for me. Sit in yonr monastery
ace to go ont froni the blessed man's
sin.
-ou»-ßo
1
are going up to heaven will nol entreat for ine
God's justice
A
r^ J*v ^^H
U*»-» ^*> )t- *«>/?
man's sins or righteousness as the case
voice and said
J-O& j
Jüü
W>>
vca*2tio ^icei> )j/o
and be quiet, and you have no concern with me, and
evil
jJ
line follow.
not neglect matters which
wliom the
p
"^jii
^3 .«JLÄ Josoto .j^J^-s; ^o^io JlcuJ.D »-a.^1 -W^o/o
i:
voro-^aj
.^
JJ
od<xA ^io ua_2caA V— -.K-r»
cot .J-i^Q.^
i-io/o
^o. ol
..uA*o .y^H» °* -M Jm«>*>
JJo
P?/ ^-^>°i
V-3
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y^
Jot "w.V-3
.
ou.^
,«J^ Kit
:)^ola
.
,.n„
.lause.
aaAJ
jJo
.^o
Ul -t^äj ->.~o
V-^
\j^<xta.s
s^-/
**!.;
Jj/
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». :
But he became
and so he departed;
am inuocent
of your
broke oul from the lour corners
man
sa-w
heaven
itself
master of his house and his property
to earth like a ball (<7<patpa);
it
descending and coming
and so that Harne immediately
l'rom
,
and seized
all
his furniture
;
LIVES OF
[75]
.-odo—po ^«i.
ABRAHAM AND MAKO.
^;oj; joC^s
oüS>
j-s,»
po/o
oöi
J-.Ö;
lo^.
"wV-3
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.
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J-sJ^b
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and the
wished
man
Jfco>V/o
with
to raake
JL
liis
his
-olaiojjo
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v> )t-ä.>o .Jloy.io
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.~°ö»?
J-^io
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75
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yOOl.«
)^'J-=>
X
j
'i)-2
ok_~J
is
domestic slaves hardly escaped naked because God
presumption known to him, while
all
the
precious
belongings and valuable furniture and the rest of the property contained in the But the blessed man, when he saw it, weeping buildings (?) were all burnt. « Go m\ called his own presbyter who stood before him, and said to him son to that wretched man and see what has happened to him »; telling him :
vvith
what had oecurred.
great sorrow
And
the presbyter with (wo brothers
by night, and they found all the buildings (?) of the house levelled with the ground, and blazing so mueh that the stones themselves looked like coals of flame, and were all dissolved into chalk within the fire. And fever and dysentery at once attacked that man, and in ten days he died and his wife survived, a great and distinguished woman; and the rest of the
went to the village
;
him was ruined and of the vineyards and the fields were thick with their trees and their frnits, and were regarded with awe in the neighbourbood, some sank to the ground in two years, and the res! were plünderet! from the owners(?)\ and of the slaves some died, and some
property that remained to
;
that
ran
l.
woman herseif became blind; and so reeeiving the comwoman also died, and she became a subjeet of gossip and
away; and the
mand
(IvtoX-o)
the
This can hardly be right; we require rather 'bj robbprä
r
/
JOHN OF EPHESUS.
76
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Jfcoof
soonjoia.^»
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>O».i.'IS*i0
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memory of them came many sighs « See, my sons, how the fiends destroy God's creation. How can we avoid shedding bitter tears for this poor man, when we think how far the evil one puffed him up 3 » until he destroyed him, and even blotted out his memory from the earth But for many days, wliile we were kneeling before him at the end of die of lamentation
into his mind,
;
while the blessed man, whenever the
would say
service, because
would with Scriptures
:
as
-
mournfully with
:
sometimes the Service was performed
in
his presence,
he
wordsof admonition from the divine See, my sons. how we stand, and what majestv we take upon Take carc, lest we stand before that awful and mightv Being
ui;in\
our tongues.
to us
tears speak to us these
man we make
corpses without sense, while our hidden
captive by our deceitful
adversary, lest
has been a
secretly
madc
mockery of God when
we stand before him, lest we insult the honour of his glory, who does not himself needour praise,but because of Ins gracious mercy called forth by the praisi ofhim draws us to himself ». At another time again, tliat is always when he was thinking with wonder of that magist rate and remembering him with tears, he would again turn the warning toward us by
way of admonition,
I.IVKS
77
6tfcsXo3Lio;
-
ooi ,-fl0.ioo "^*-*»o
»>^v
Jjl..;
^io Jju/ w>.lS-> c*A
otLo-iö»
J^a.2^1.
»3/0
:;g.^..X-5
JJ/
OF ABRAHAM AND MARO.
,
->\>A ooi;
^J^ (A;
p
ocx-X
so/;
I—.o,JS.
oöi
J-»-^'
J_io
^e^
-.ool >»l'S
.jlJ-^JD Jj.tooA N-./
y.*/
ot_^-3ol>»o
J-io-3;
77
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...
ffl
vi^,
ojioo/
^^.0 tot^.^
oj.««»
Jjl^oo
"^3_\
Jjl-j
^3 18
yO-jL^CLiLJo yOOi.-^vVV^
l'Q-_^o 1.
Utd^o
)N.^ Mt_2>o K^J^^Sl^i .-ioipeo t.*XMo
\a.ioa_oj
Jfcooaiö
^o
•
.),«jl\o
ool UaJXi*
>
.
i
"
->
\
.
Joot
v oot-.ma.^.li
Ms. with stop following.
saying,
a.
See,
my
how
sons, again
severe and awi'ul and rapid
is
the sentence
how many high and powerful men it has overthrown. And why repeat many instances, when it cast down from heaven to earth and overthrew him who himself causes it among men; of the fall of pride,
and beware of
even as he also to-day
is
it,
observing
again in the same fashion eager to overthrow
everyone as he was overthrown, just as that wretched magistrate also was suddenly consumed and destroyed by his pride and haughtiness? Let us fear,
and tremble, and entreat Christ our God to repel of his saints
».
Concerning the
rest of the
it
from us by the prayers
admonition which treated of every
formoflife in his discourse, and concerning his warning and bis exhortation
addressed not to us onlv, but to laymen also as well, and even to children and fathers and
brothers
all classes,
who werewith him
und exhortation
what
is
women and
there to write and saj
'
To
the
he would offer spiritual education and warnings
to spiritual things,
and
to his
own
priests and those of the
who
resorted to him he would give expos itions of the solem-
nity of their service
and the magnitude of the penalty, and the greatness incite and warn them to stand earnestly and
villages
and
all
also of the glory,
and would
with fear in their stations and serve
in ilieir classes:
lavim
n
again and
women
v
a.
JOHN OF EPHESUS.
78
^
yooj^ &l
j>^ la^j
lovi
otloivi ..»>o
Jjo^co/ ^^-^
^Sl^^ö
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rro;
.
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^cloj
Jk.^JL~ )Njl3uä ^--^ot
^«^ Uio»
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IS v°
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^-.;
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he would restrain from oaths and blasphemies and adultery and ihe
good things, declaring besides the other things which
and exhort
evil things,
sentence of justice, raercifulness
toward
all
to
men he
twenty years during which
1
them
after a space of ahout
upon the column a revelation was
sliown to him conceming Ihe terrible hosts of barbarians,
should come forth to cliastise
men upon
Then with mournful weeping he continued with tlie
to
in thine altars
whose corpses In
bury them?
to
u
i.
PfOC
vehemently
« What, What, my Lord,
God thus
:
and thy service and thy sacred vessels, Lord?
happen to thy priests and the people
will
are cast oul as In
awoken we were
Sc. Beil.,
2.
1
I.
515
düng upon
merey chastise
of us heard the voiee
all
,
us whose sins have brought tliese things to pass, and not thy gentle-
What
ness.
Huns 2 who
a Ioudvoice
Lord, will happen to thy churches and thy monasteries?
thou du
e.
night and wailing out of a
mournful heart, beating on Ins face and speaking
Woe
i.
earth.
giving venl to Ins sorrow in the middle of
will
otlicr
also the awful
in the gentleness of Ins
But
disseminates.
this saint stood
to
'
.
rac
and not
from above
seep.
19,
n.
2.
in
anger, Lord'
1
».
And, when
monastery within, having
in the
agitated; and, hecause
it
was
all
a short timc beforc ser-
The better known invasion was aller M.'S dcalli. — X.
xxi, 28; Chr. Edess., A. S. 843]
of the helievers,
the face of the earth with none
of 531
2
(Zach. Rh., ix, 6;
Jcr., \. 24.
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)
JJ
U-sf w-J^.]J;
J_j_ioo .•ly.^j'il .^.oöi
..^NftNft
n jKa^LS
.,
.J^~/
001
ABRAHAM AND MARO
LIVES OF
[79]
'
^.K«.^)'
ot\
^^
»
.JLo-a
001
K-Jv-k-.
»
^**
Jjlscxo
vO-^oto .Jlo^J^ vQ-ioauo
n V) &o v-jlX^ Joe*
J^Lo
)K *>0« 1» ""^«^.O
-Jooj
<=9«
J-°
>mjV|
)ooi
..
^->?
.)-^»t"0
po
I
JLs^-=>
«Äoooi-a
> tj".»
p
v3/
00t
)*«. «
f>
>ä/o .JjLiCLrf*ieL3 Jj>V— K.^S^JkO -.J-V-io iy i"
^0 2
J^ot
Ms. k.v-lt
t-V*
•
*-^
<
V-*?/°
.&*vl
Jla\»-ao JJkjLictAN-s yaiCLOo
L^JS. of^s l.
^^
"w.V-=>
—
^-.j
l
\
"**
l ^-t-
va.Q-.aj
»fc-*-»
«
^-io
.Jjjot
U*
y^
J*ot
In erasure.
2.
we tlid not ourselves dare to go into his enclosure; bul the presbyter who was next after hira went in, and cried out and said to liim, Sir, give your blessing», three times. And then he ceased his sobbing, and the pres-
vice,
byter said to him,
and so above
«
Why,
sir,
when speaking?
all
is »
your holiness distressed with weeping, But the saint said to him « My son, go, :
and wake the brethren, and stand up for
what times
my
ears hear
to prayer;
bave been preserved, and what
I
And, when
».
bis sobs
and grieve
for niy
my
my
in
days
came up more than
ever, the presbyter,
having been himself also seized with trembling, continued erying saying
:
«
Whal
is
Teil nie
the matter with you, sir?
latter end,
'
eyes see and
what
it
to
is
him and
».
Then
« My son, go and pray; because a sword has gone l'orth he said to him l'rom the presence of the Lord, and slaughter has prevailed among the belie:
vers,
and also over the churches and monasteries, because men have provoked
you please-, entreat you to inform me man was angry and said to him Have you not come « Remove yourself now, my son, from my presence. now l'rom here ». begöne not, if or, service; the to pry? recite Please go and
God
».
And
the presbyter said,
what you have seen
Andthey went
—
».
Then
«
I
II'
the blessed
:
out and stood up in service and in prayer
he the meaning 1. Ms. om. 2. This seems to The expression occurs several times in this work, but
of is
M
&* 4
unknown
all
the night until
nere and below
to the lexicons.
(p.
80,
1.
5).
JOHN OF EPHESUS.
SO
nn0"
6(Q-<w£Q.3o
>oofcoo.io
&l ..^*Ä*_ol;
JJ
^^cx-3
v3,'o
v O,_OOJ
)^, o/
^.../
.oolo
JJ
^.j ajcx
-J^jUo ^.;a-..\i
.
w^i J_3
.Jo£_>s
vOCX_LiO
h
vOJl-v
yoK^j/
.JJ.o__o
yjo
1.
M*.
nftNA*..
,-..1
ycu/
>-*. o
)
^»
^._o.N
»..
j
i"->
.
t'S
iV
»»^»ö/
cl-\«'j
.
»..0.3
y^
y°t*°
°l
Jj/j .«oi^KIjl^o
ai3; _.j
>%
L.^-X50
^^
)j^3ol
oilä-^-j*
yO-^-x >
J^jJJ
Kj/
bv—v-vj
.u\^ q\jO yOTV>\
.oilaS.
_**
^ L^o^
Jv 3
L»_ioöo .-J^OwiöKa/
-^t-^-) ,
.
.j^J^O;
JJ*
,-i-..
*.^\
••lJL:>Q-i?
v»
^w
«loi^as
-ti.j.£.Äea..i
001
n°i .oC_\
)!S^.^~.._^
LI
'.^>
»_.;
f3
f3
JJ
>-*~'*-«n.'
o.~po/
JJ»
o.*.^.io
-.(.;/
..OJ.-U
cxolo
.la^eu
|~>oL fca»s
the morning.
^-w-lL—o
»/o "iCls|
*_-».j/
o»^..»
ins.
i
p
.'po/
JJ
>.JJ
r>
y-Q,aJLj
J_ju_^3oJ^_>
oi'^ioj
)^t-*o -vCLitS;
,J-»-lu
m»1.S
Lhj/
..-.lo-ico
yOJuSo
)!Ss._\l
.).im.A \Q-ßp\ r
po/
-.yoou-*.
o...).— ,1/
,b.;).-i
l^ 3 vO^js.^0
jj/
/
>Ki wie
Jtoo'a^ ^»;
yooilas/ J_^ioooiV;
^_^oi v
.
-
.yO^j
10
jla^L~ •.^.ym\
L»Joöi;
.
[80]
»_.»
y_-C_\ot
-.v»
i'S
^»j
och
vojoi
voo(.\
j_io/
See note on translation.
^.'r^,'
But after twenty days thc hosts of the lluns came
forlh,
and
they covered the land of he East, and none so numerous as they had appeared l
in the land of the
Romans, nur had
eompanions also arose haste «
Sir,
you
if
von please we
yourself». liv
way
But he
in
of boasting
«
:
I,
When
they saw
indeed even
von down,
my
sons,
am
and they say
",
von. our father
Bul those
'And f.
had
tili
left
to
him
ready for sulTering, and
a
:
Either
tery, whicli
'Juslii
he
fficultj i
\
i !
.in.i
:
Have
••
:
life «
\<>n
or death
Pray,
I
..
suppose,
did noI do
remains,
tili
my
after
Probabi
M
von
my
life
maus
and
me
».
prayers,
had remained, and the
fchej
in to
qoI
better for ns with
is
ir';
I
-
him, and he
gone away, my
sons. that
d in the reign of Justioian, in
i
tl
to
them, and again not
who remained went
Bul he said to them
»'.
to
Go, and the Lord be with you, and pray for
saw them and was astonished, saying sons?
leave )-ou alone and
three of them, trusting in the blessed
it,
the fortress.
to
fled
lest vve
Lord said
in Ins
bravely remained, while he was unaware thal resl
any Huns except the blessed man's
burn the monastery or anything happen
confidence
death are in God's hands.
'
to flee to die fortress, while they said to him,
will carry
suffer distress, or they
lliat
among
ever been heard
it
these presumed to cross the Euphrates;
we may but Ulis
death, and, even e
Lhe
is 534/5,
we read
if
words are
not
i
5<
ribe
-
^-.\ot
voooo^ ? ^io
.
^^o-s;
V
*
^
^u^iö
.000t
Ll*>?
-.V*>/ *3
V nm a^?
vochAoö ^-J^ot
.
M
or
»
«.JäjJ
NA
°«'»-^-^ 1
J-*- /
%
V
1
a
1
va>ov
—
o^oif
men cannot
not,
if
we
order that
in
were open
fo nie
I
us,
kill
^-^ajtsJioo
^-.»-ao
:L*ot
c*-^^3
Jk.V^s^ao
ooua.-^i
becanse
may
ourselves also
thev
men
fulfil
^^
-.Lu^a^;
who
».
rI
are with us
did 2 not say
every man's
we may
order that
in
fled,
tlian the rest of
'
But these things
'.
'
would have
also
any thing better
to be in
.\
.^.x^i^
|oi
v*.\ K_/ «jüa
-.vO-äOL-iö )i-.,_\ jl*io;
vQ-3»;/
la\ ya^oiio
.JJLSO^
.po/,
.Jjl*>
^.io
ooot
-.<x^
..^.^o .»g ,,t*'S
Ms. with stop'..
2.
von before, il
"^
Joot
yoouj.-^
>*./'j
.^iö/o
Jj^'
jiai~
more than they who are with them
are
^^
Jjuso^ .<_\ ^.,a..ya
^_.j
•u^x.su
^-ioo
a-^>.iöo .yocxi^a
die in sin; but,
if
)
^X va^Q_j,
jj
^..\o»o .o_sjoKl*/ <*^-^ .vOOt^.io,-D ooot ^.*.oV^'? ^.-..^010 Jw»;j
^»•/ Ms.
1.
^5'^;
v^io
JJ~»— |oio
w-^0
.jj,*
^iw
^.io
.'jk— ',3
JJ--~
-.jooi
vo^a U^,
äV^' -oiaüs/
.
^>A Ul &l
..k..oot
^a^o
^^iO
KaLiCLÄ»;
Jooi
H^i-*! ^»?
t^
^^
**^°
81
'ycucx .Jjl»/ «jl1=>, J.a^ ^_io „_jL.ik*io
^_. ?
^..^I^
io .)^?
,wpö .Jkju»-^
J-LiO
^^io
JJ;
v
vU%»i
voj/
oda\ ^013,
voj« obo*
.o;o;l/o
^.io.^
^J-V-a.^» )o
o.^
i »-a^>
a_ia_o/o
In
OF ABRAHAM AND MARO.
I.IVKS
81
lot; for
noi
seem
But the heart of those who
had remained with hini was agitated, though they were encouraged by him,
and thev continued peering out and see, and
011
all
and they
sides,
lifted
horsemen appeared before
a host of
lo!
the
up
their eyes
monastery; and
they themselves trembled and were disturbed; and they ran
to
man and say
what
do?
Lo they Surround us !
What, my
face, saying, «
those
all
who
».
by beasts and by birds?
shall
we his
sons, can
uow being
are
I
evil
reached a distance of half a mile
l'roni
has come.
Sir,
What? Am
say?
eul in pieces
Bul the hosl
»
the blessed
But the blessed man continued beating on
because the
Sir, pray,
«
:
and
casl out,
myself better than
I
and are being enten
of the barbarians, vvhen the) the
monastery
overtook
were fleeing toward the blessed man's monastery, and with cries in
i
heir
language they pursued them, and thev advaneed as
tery fence; I.
II
and those who were fleeing before the
Kings, vi. i'.un.
on.
16.
—
— t.
'2.
Or
xvii.
'did
—
f.
I'. 1.
I
dn not follow
had
men who
far as the
uttered
monas-
And
scaped inside.
Ihi 7
19
\
a.
JOHN
82 -.^-.yL*
^!S;»»
,<_-«.\oi
-.Hvo
»j
jUL=>a^i
^^
ot^>oa_o
JJo
^ba^J^«* 19
v
1)
öo«>l
Jv-m
:
ool
-.K^ajI/ j-3't-~
ooio
^.»/i
._oto)j..~
Jv-;
.yOoi^Of.o
U'i'aß
Jv.*i
—
Nöld.
2.
^-^
po
^...ot^n-s
ot-\a3
'ia!ä«l/
Ms. ov^vto-
—
j-d^o^
-s/
,).^oa_*
.Jt«—.*^-
3.
are driven along or
on
J_l3ok>
oooj
00
l)—.^
J°°«
lliis si.li'
and on
one
in front
that,
And
them
:ii
it;
whose eyes
\<\
those
if
l
its
il
no1
ai
whom
ihev were
i~
is
seen above, being Mark.
And
was
vvalls
even seen by
nol
and gates, and did its
sides,
although
so by the help of Ins prayefs neither
harmed, nor anyone
the villages round
the village itself they
it
who was
or round
was
though
in
complete destruction was carried out, and even
in
were
for a
whole da\
.
did nol ><( him.
in
ii
it,
and. while the whole monastery
and the blessed man were seen by the village blinded, and the\
and so
greal distance, and the blessed man's Station moreover
ii
the monasterj
a
he monastery
one of them entered
not even Hfl up their eyes and look upon the site of one of
all
1
he gate of the monastery
maus monastery, and
because they passed by the side of
seen even
[»"*>»
shouting indicated; since, while there was no
believed by everyone thal
is
ii
9i
whom
are blinded or
of them, they themselves continued crying and running,
and so
all,
--
thinkingthat they werejusl overtaking and catching
this their
they passed round theblessed withih
^ä^
«-ob«j./j
cx-js
N—V-O-s «H^ <£>h
ot-^>
.loo»
.öu^-wv
|>-Jt\^
.Jjaoo/;
I
-^
^3;
öu^Vlo öi^iö/
.ouV»— o/
t-3
one side and half 00 the other, and, jusl as
the fugitives
?
Ms. eiai-^H-
suing were running before them, they passed
pui
5
voot^^s
«jl»/
a^ ^
«s/o
deceiver carries along so that they do nol see, passed round half on
J«a\
K.^>.
Joo»
sS/o -.yOi-Ä^
JJ
ll-^v*-00
..otläA,; Jj>;a>_=>
iV o<x*JL-.-b«
JJo
men who
like
tliese,
JJo
•,ot»V^*»j
It-ts»; corr.
jfs,
•(...)—*
.
1
'•^•4°'' yOOi.-^Ot.Ä yOOhK-.i ooot
v®*-2
•
^-oV-^ *
o/
yOOi^<3o
^»Vt— J-a\
)'*»;
vcj.jo(
[82]
vo<**jl^ yVo^Kio
^
^-^
oooi ^-aTS^.«.>6
).iia^ ooio cxJ^o
-f-./
I.
-.ov^.^>
o/
^.J Jboo,^ yOt— © yClia-5/ vOCH-aIa^
^-iO
•
).a^o
ylo
oö»
jo«;
.,_^_otio
jjLdoio
Jju^^io
yOC*\ ^ül».
JJo
EPHESÜS.
ol ;
like a
sun, their eyes were
Man\ such thinys God nsrd
to
puTonu
LIVES OF
[83]
ypA^co.io
..^oöi
^N
Jjlsj
^-.;
)ooi
oö»-.
.^.ot^- irn
JJ
.
ABRAHAM AND MARO.
,_^o£^
°>^ &oä.3
»o-^-s
^o Jk-.V-=>
)..=>>a..o
)K— q_2laI
)<x\JJ
83
v^*i«Jj
JfcO^-io t-^s
.^^»
n°iK)
»
UiQ„
^^
..Jja^co/
00t; J-^iOj-o
JJ
*"•/? ."O^ OOOI v ^-50»-.
)j-./
1.
j>oo_oj
Ms.
stop following.
\vil.h
—
2.
JLju/
Gorr. bv
Iati>r
v^lls
yOO^O
band
low-
to
through the blessed man's prayers; tbou^li,
were performed
the things that
in sick raen
—
if
many As
into a greatly protracted
3.
had undertaken
I
enough
are
to the
t
i
up praise
to stir
to
in
in his brother's
endurance
in
thosc
who
fifteen days,
days he passed eleven years, so
(äycov) in
«—
to teil all
llial
demons who
the rase of
by one,
should have
I
these few oul
of
are convinced by them.
completed on the column
of his standing he
nie
God
OOI
Corr. from (^»i-
series of stories; hui
endurance (iywv) twenty-nine years and
of
'',^0^ -.j-JU.^
out, or in that of the other acts of healing, one
wandered
oC^>; )t .».o
^j>
through the outward word only
without his applying his touch to these, either
came
'.ouiu
ouio;
Jjlsjj
and
in tliis trial of
in the
tree-segmenl
for the time of the trial
which he laboured there are made up
forty years'.
Hui as to the rest of his labours and the painfulness of his standing and the austerity of his habits is
own
his
when he himself was and soundly
men used
all
1.
|efl
If
tlie
the
II
I
reckon
it
ii ii
in his
man who
from the very earliesl time,
not standing on the eolumn, himself also walked righthj
very footsteps.
to congratulate him,
invasion was
ia
;>l.">.
Ihis
For, even while the
because such a
as a round
ascetic
life
would bring M.'s death to 523 we ma> pcrh. place M.
number. This throws back Abraham's death
to ein-. 455.
saint
was
man was standing 1
nionasii'i-v not later tlian 522/3 (see [ntrod.),
(p. 78)
Hut his successor
superfluous lo write.
presbyter, his kinsman, a
to circ.
bul
:
-
vi:,
d<
as
ath
J,
in
alive,
before
seems 522
to have and take 20
and the beginning of
bis
JOHN OF EPHESUS.
84
ou^o-3 jpoo.^;
-.oti^-s
jjj
^o-a-s
j.^^ ^o;
)nmv>
KiCL-*i
^o;
^oJls
ot-3L^;
JJ
,\o^ ^-»
m
->
^^o
)lajs_Vß
rb. oooi yOOuK-./ i.
Marg.
later
in
)
>
m
i
IIa
/ ;
oUfJo^
— ^\cx
:
. '
'
ia^o^-3ko»-seo iPß; <-*^>
bis
all
ög^o;
»/'
kindness and of bis
liis
\m
H/-V-J
jK-.'t-O--3
IL^*> Vafco
°°i
o»-
3
Jjov
;
the poor which he possessed, and the love towards
in
the reception of strangers,
who used
to carry bis
liis
bre-
fame every-
But, after the blessed man's decease, he tnade himself a hut and a
where.
in
the enclosure
itself,
and therein carried out
abstinence; bni he did nol as yel
thence
because
myself
to the coi
the exile
the
of
NeXT THE
In the
the column. of
bodily
kin
labour and his
liis
Bul
removed myself
I
(ys'vo;),
and joined
Amidenes, while they themselves were
in
decreed by the heretics.
(eijopta)
RECLUSf
mount
aeighbourhood
unities of tbe
The history of the
-
^l^
j°°« >n
bürden and that also of the whole convent
the charity
V.
-.oi^ jooi
murmur and without complainl wliile the fame own habits also was everywhere spoken, through
thren, and
Station
;
.'jooi
i »^ö
^M
willi stainless purity vvithout
->
t^£uax.£i iv^xlx.
-öt
uw»j4
V*
m
.
^.\
^-*> -ooot
oC^oa^ owso
rdjLiTVD7\
U-.V-D
>k>-3
J-i^j
lia-o
i.a\;
.-^oiä-*/
Kü-
«-^ K_ooi
^ocn'iard
Jja^flo/j hand
^o
-.^-ioi'
jJ;o
^oto*,Lso;;o otla vi
v3/
^-»;
Jio^
^)ojlo
Joo«
J^ob.oi
.k-J-^-a.-*.
jLsa^o
'.U^i
öj-s
and after him he bore
Iiim;
•
k._J_^>;o
Jja^v^DJJ .Joch Ji^u/xi odcu.a_iLi.o
•>rdur£f ^cru^aa
20
.
o»Iioo .^otaio^D
"^OoKio ot^<
»_^» .-Jooi
^-^oi
iiou_oo U-iao )k~^«
otV-oa-.
^>^
+3 .jooi
J-jlo;
)-DQ.i^v;
vä/o
[84]
I
II
TU
saints,
Abraham and Maro
THE
HISTORY, Ol
»Mi SERGIUS
VLSO
111
1
-an ii' village moreover from
-
the brothers,
\M>
IIOI/Y
DIVINE
is
ßnished.
MEN SlMKON TUE
RECLUSE INS ZEALOUS DISCIPLE.
which
1
1
n
•
saints of the
column
dei ived
LIVES OF SIMEON AND SERGIUS.
[85]
ooi
JoCX
.-»^Tv....
JOOI
^bv-iOA oi,^oa 1 n
,~>
3/;
ooi
^-»Ä—o
jooi
Vl^
Jl~ /;
0001 ,—*-3u.'ii
.-Jjü/
)Löi_i/
-Ji^i
)K_».iO-».l
joot
JiiaijLj
)ooi
ItV-xic.*!.
yooüo
wU-3
laS.
Jtsju..i,» JK-coojl^o
JJ;
Oi\
»-3u\0
.^...Vl
^a*'.* ^.610
0/
JLüLcttD/
Jlo.ii
.
1
..;
,..«
JJL«/
,-a.^;
^
)^Oo!Sl
fc^io
,„2^
J001
oi-30
.otloX
J;ot
^^>oo
I—Vas
)mm^a
^*JliO
wöto .ou>oojlä_s Joot Jiiaiö ^.iVl
J-LOOtO
and holy old mau who was
.J^.U
jlSoo^s
J,.-.
.oila^ 0001
Jjlsoio
Simeon had
called
been living as a recluse ever since the timc when the saints Abraham
was
unworthy
not
carried out the
2
words
of the apostle wliich say,
and
tality that existed in
him (and he was eager
its
lusts
»
the saints personally with bis
own hands
used not to shut himself up
in
They
«
crucified their flesh of the great hospi-
to carry out the ministration to
like the holy
a hut like
man whose own story in his own person
also
man because
Tliis
'.
a
,
who
of great admiration;
with all its affections
I
)joi
oulSüls
—
»-"-^v
JVai»j
J-iK—^ioo
and Maro the brothers began their discipleship also
_oio,... Lüo
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.JOOI
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their origin cp/oc)' a great
also
yooi^l
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joot
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yOO(i-flQ.^;
vO.-2l.oj
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yO^CLlt
j^oAs.^0
85
all
Abraham
have said he would not endure tu do so, since he used
ministration to the brothers
who
Abraham had been implanted he made himself sonn' srnall
him toward
in
and
to
perform the
For the love of the greal
resorted to him.
huts,
the patriarch)
the others, because indeed as
and
inen,
all
011
a little enclosed courl
this
account
and garden
without a gate; and thus he was shul up withjn them with one disciple or
two; andat one place he made
for
himself a
way of ascending and descending who resorted to him; und thus
the wall, on account of the stränge brothers
therefore he fulfilled in 1.
time
Kalesh; see
p. 56.
when M. ascended
seclusion,
which
is
-
2.
the
himself two purposes,
M. began
columan
r
(p.
inconsistent with later
years
59),
we
after A. gel
ätatemenls
183 äee
(p.
as p.
lh<
94
both that of seclusion and 57
;
n.
even
but,
dal I.
'
the 1.
il
we reckon
frorn
beginning of Sinn
Gal.,
v,
24.
the
.''i
v
a.
JOHN OF EPHESUS,
,Sü
wkJ3
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Jooi
JoOI
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1,
vv^o
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erasure follows.
—
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Ms.
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v^ot»
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pl.
of the entertainment of strangers.
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w>p&^
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Whenever any stranger wearing
the
would himself open the gate at the top of the wall Cor him, and he would come up outside and come down to him; and he would take hold of him and embrace him and kiss his hands; and he would fall lipon his face and forcibly take hold of him, and would kiss his feet and
habit
liis
(cr/-?,y.a)
eame
heels, leaping
to him. he
and crying and saying,
«
I
thank
my
Lord Jesus that he
come to-day and visited the sinner, and has thought me worthy to see him in his hol v bondmen ». And. as soon as they had made the prayer and were sitting down, he would run to a vessel containing wine, and would has
IUI a
certain gourd cup thal had been
and before anything eise would he niight be, thal he mighl invite for
him
that cup;
to eat that roll (xo^Mpa) also,
God's sake be Kind and take
a roll (jtoXMpa)
on his face before the man's
fall
take
made by him and
this
ii
round
«
Von
are weary; but
And, while that man was
0.
rcceiving it, he himself would run and preparea föotpan
and would prepare ä towel and put
,
whoever
and the hospitable man would
saying to him, Grsl
i'eet
1
(Xsxavvi)
and bring water,
his loins, in the
our Lord also taucrht; and thus he would wash
l
lu-in
manner which
whether they were one
LIVES
s;
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Ȋ'v.3
jooi -«.*.iöo
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y-»/
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Ob'
J-JJot
.^oo-
^b/ ^ax- -V*> ;>a^» ^b/ Jjisot -.otla^. J.—uao/ Jj/
;«!}•
And, alter he had many, not allowing them to speak nor to refuse. washed them, he would hastily raise this water to liis own face and Ins arms, just as if he were desirous of washing; and, tliat 110 one might underor
stand
what he was doing, he would withdraw t<> one in conversation; and he would drink of it
were occupied
side while these nie 11
three limes, and thcn
would go andpourout wine and oiland anoim them. And immediately he would run to that garden, which measured aboul ten cubits one way, and about twenty thc other (and the heavenly blessing rested upon
leave them; and he
an extent that what was sown in if was enough for forty it and cook a dish, and then Im' would entertain whoever might he there, and he would make merry and fhe place to such
men), and he would bring something from
joyfully
eat and drink, so that
saint's love
am
and
way every
this I
that
I
ever there
am
his
day.
manner
of
anyone who was life
would think
But he would say
in cheerful
to-day eating and drinking with
was
a stranger with him,
not
that
my Lord
he would
without reserve; and, as soon as there was
110
acquainted lie
vvith
thc
enjoyed himself
exultation,
Jesus
».
«
in
Blessed
For,
when-
ihus joyfully eat and drink stranger, he
would go
as
•\
1" a.
JOHN OF EPHESUS.
,ss
vs^ioo
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rr^\ J-*>Ao J^OlAo JK-a/o
J-,
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jooi
J^
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/
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001
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2
^j7 yftA^ol OOIO ..^»-^1*00 (p) )l~)J Jo« vÄ-iJ. -Jv-^^jiio Jo« ^j'/ ^-^«0 ..»«J» |.io^ Jj^s ^ .J~;a^> joot a.ia»-iö Jla^a~o J^sui ).^o-«o Ujlö Jbas> Jj«.s Jjlooio .Ji-Sj; Jk^.ia*k.\ yoo^
)oOI 21
r
l>
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y" ,
Ji-oa-
I,
An
much
v^^sccL.
^ao p
^.m' in
.Jliaiojl;
vax.i.^.Jj
erasure follows.
—
2.
as six and seven
J.Jui/
Jj«
wJLs
Jv^-s^ «-.otaäoä-
yci^a »J
^a.V» J4-^» i_a-^°°
Joot
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Ms. um.
and even ten days, and taste nothing, saying,
«
For
im part withoul King Christ cannot eat bread, unless he has thought me Many were deterred by worthy to sit at table vvith him in his bondmen 9. him from ffoine in to him cm accounl of his reverend character and 011 account I
of his -real humility in their presence; others again sould nol pass more than two nights or three of his -real watching and protracted
possibility of his sleeping
stand up
in
the night and
a utile lazylike
with him,
recitation of Service;
more than two hours lil't
who were
at inost
011
of the night; bul
up the head of David, and,
accounl
for liiere %vas
nntil the
no
he would
day broke,
where he began there he would end'; and, if it happened that he had some tjme over, he would leave the brothers resting, and would himself go and layyeXiov in the hut, weeping, unti] daybreak, and then he recite the gospel 1
wniild so and rouse them to perform matins.
ended his days
showing
in this
fortitude
all
the days of his
life,
so thal
and endure the bürden of his -real labours I.
I. 0.
thi
And
so this wonderful
man
severe labour and abundanl love and great earnestness,
whole psaller.
men were
more than
not able to supporl
a shorl time, except
L1VES OK S1MEON AM) SliKGIUS.
[89]
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-^a^
.
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Jjü v/o
v/o
:^i/
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1.
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in
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M
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4.
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89
^K^l
Ms. vaß n3
-
Sergius Ins disciple an earnest mau like himself, who also imitated him in everything, for für the space of twenty years he laboured with him in the excellent
life,
and accordingly the saying of the Spirit that
prophet as from the mouth of the Lord, rest the
weary
»
-
was
who came
is
a
my
'
rest
was uttered with which
man and
I
will
guest-house outside, and there used to entertain
was proper
performing anything in the
in the
his diligent son,
with everything out of the window, whether they vvere
or laymen, each as
that they
This
fulfilled in the splendid old
insomuch that they ma.de all
«
for
way
might not continue
of
him.
Again
also,
the
since
manual work was not open
to
women task
"I
them, and
eat the bread of idleness, and be despised
to
by themselves and by their conscience, the blessed
men formed
a plan
and
chose for themselves to teach boys, and this they did out of the window, since a seat was placed inside the window, and hours were appointed for the boys to
come, that
had taught one class they had
Ms.
0111.
—
2. Is.,
in the
(er////./,;
morning and
to
read
in
the eveni ig; and,
the psalms and
when
the Scriptures,
they
and
1
after being strengthened, another came inof little infants, them, and they would learn and go to their homes, because
withdrawn
thirty or forty of 1.
is
xxviii, 12.
v" a.
JOHN OF EPHESUS.
90
Lüß
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it
Ms.
was
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1
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2.
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same hand.
in
And populous village, and manv people used to come out from it. mau continued doing until the time of his end; und accordingly
so the old
After a space of twenty years Sergius
the boy-pupils supplied their needs. his disciple
asked the sainl
And, seeing that he was eager
place close by the village.
deed, he said to him leaving nie.
:
However,
prevenl you from
s
I, 1
might shut himself up
that he also
my
will
son, should not not
as
making progress
in
be
all
at
were stand
it
in
for
al a
certain
every good
satisüed
vom-
al
your way so as
to
running on the road of righteousness
go and may our Lord prosper you ». Then, having received Mos permission, he went out and wenl and shut himself up, his aol aller liis master's method, but straitly in a lonely hui the sizc oi
as
far
as you are able;
stature,
yes and
perförmed the
even smaller than of his
resj
were ruany Jews
in
:arried
used
to
bul
lal
-s.
his
But,
stature;
and there henceforth he
before doing
this,
because there
and they went about with greal freedom on a continuous contest against them, and everj daj hfl that village.
contend against them as with slayers of God, bein,g fervenl
lovc of his Lord, and
gnashing
his teeth,
and saying
:
«
These
in
the
crucifiers ol the
LIVES OF SIMEON
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.o^-Jj Jl^j
oot
>ö>QJu.
J_s?
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•
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91
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ooo»
^o^-.vooj^.; |K.^jl k^_s»
yOCH.-VoA-.jLO yoouil-auflo -^n-7
AND SERGIUS.
..Jfcs_-,_o
)?<*«> k»** '^ioa- )K^1 Q-^i0 -.I^P5 vQJLjiJo
Sou ofGod should not be allowed to live at all Christians who had dealings with them in the way one day he led abouttwenty
ot'tlicir disciples
aud he used
»;
of taking
to
upbraid
and giving.
by night, and took
And
and wenl
fire,
and burnl their great synagogue-house, with their books and their trumpets and
As
their furnitnre, saying, «
all
for those
who
crucified
my
Lord Jesus,
But these men, when they saw that all their hope had been cut off through the burning of their books and of all their furniture, Iamented bitterly and, because they were settled in the terriI
will
never make peace with them
».
;
tory to
'
of the
members
the the
all
church of Amida, and used to pay
members
of the
church of the city
to prefer
synagogue, collected froin the village,
they cleared
«
This
But the zealous
».
all
all
l.
Uoitot
of
tliij
i,
a
ouvTcXetot
kind.
of their gold
man wishes
to
destroy the property of
man, when these men had gone
an accusation, while the
bis master's disciples with
lirc
was
him and
still all
into the in their
the othi
and they took waler. and wenl and put out that fire; and stones, and within three the soil; and they collected
days built a small martyr's chapel
Hence the
contributions (auvre^eiae)
abundance
church became their supporters, threatening the
blessed Sergius and saying: the church
many
of the church, out of desire for the
liirr.ii
in that place, in
the
name
of the Blessed
rendering of itapoixia and means eccle iaslical Jurisdiction, nol properl) protection againsl illacks ir< rent, bul a kind of blackmail paid ti
were noi
JOHN OF EPHESUS.
92
K-^
^^ot
^.,-ot
'jL*->
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^a*~»
:^lxo
:o-pol/
y.-*l
,.,
,
.
|,
oi^^a^l
sJtoVSJ;
"^*aioo :yOOiV^o
yoyji
^^i^io .^ota-VaaL3
yOJLJUj
OOOI
\*> JM->t-=>**> J?«
L^^S—O jJ-^£l
God-bearer; and,
at
Jt--*Ä>
the end of one
week
tlic
knowing what to Then the Jews who had gone ever. tool< courage and came to fighl with hold aloof from the Pight
also did not
to heart,
l
hope
all
form of
hat
church, and the
longer able in
whose
and
he was not
their place of
for a
is,
to
approach
territory
sei fire
to
loo of
huts,
0^0/0
1
Jjua-/
.yOOVi
JoOi
JfcoÖO-^S
he martyr's cliapel
and lamented,
not
martyr's chapel
f'or
011
a
-.ouio
Joow»
JVO-^J
-1
I'
against thcm
man
with them', though he did not take
When
Indignation. lost, t
and
il
had
it
they saw that
now
received
tlie
ho Blessed one, and they were no
inasmuch as they had
maus
/
accusation
I
they were settled, they also took
the old
Jc*iooJ*o
the lilcssed inen; since the old
moved with worship was
name
it,
in to prefer
1
^-t^*
^SO|
the whole of
Jews assembled and looked do; and tliat synagogue remained
was completed, while
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n reinforced by those fire
by night and went
before his disciple separated
from
him,
was brought about providentially l»v the grace of God, in order thal the blessed mau might have a little breathing-space in Ins huts, because he was much straitened in themi Then Sergius, because he was an agile and energetic man, rebuilt them and bumt them; though perhaps even
And, when these men began
firmly in a few days. l.
II
r.in
hard
this also
1
thal he
lefl
his cell,
bul onl)
llial
to
build a synagogue,
hc encouraged his disciples to go.
LIVES OF SIMEON AM) SERGIUS.
93
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waited for them
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they were on the point of finishing, and he occupied
tili
one night in pulling
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to pieces stone
it
by
stoiie,
and thus he engaged
in this
rontest against the crucifiers before shutting liimself up; so that during the
days of his
saw
thal
and
t'or
life
the Jews could not raise their head there.
Bnt,
when they
he bad shut himself up, they thought that they were rid of him:
this
reason they went on building confidently; and, when they had
completed and finished
1
,
he sent his disciples by night, and they burnt
and so they desisted l'rom building
went on adding
the
to
all
the days of his
life.
course of his habitual practices and
toward God and toward strangers everv day,
until he
grew
very infirm, after cömpleting forty years in these huts and
it;
But the old man to
old and in
his
love
became
seclusion and
became emaciated and was not able to stand unless they supported him; and so he was [aidupon his rüg and recited the Service night and day; and, as soon as he saw a stranger, he would twine his hands labours; and at last he
weep with sighs, sobbing and vveepinglike a power of the old man's prayers and n\' his always used to repair to him from all quarters to receive his so that once I did not shrink from making the effort and coming
together above
blessings,
hlessings,
1.
I.
liis
head, and
And, because
baby.
e.
the
I
knew
the
I
synagogue; tbe objecl has perh.
fallen out.
JOHN ÖF EPHESUS.
94
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s-oto^i'/ l- 3 - 3
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p
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with marks of transposition.
down even from Constantinople
order to gain
in
,
'
blessing before his
liis
who saw the desire of my had raade mc heir to a small
departure from the body; and the merciful (Jod, feebleness, preservcd
him
properly.
1
found
tlial
body
in the
portion of his goods, though
1
breath vvhich
thal
came up from
had come
1
in
all
him water, and hc took some on oil
said.
h
to
of
the
lliat
cause his tongue to dry up,
When
man's heel.
hc heard
he went on for an hour embracing
,
vveeping, and unable to speak; and he beckoned and they brought
me and took
him used
inside
as on a barefooted
it,
insomuch
the interna] organs,
him and saw
to
he
part turned out a squanderer of bis
one year he had been Iaid up with disease
for
the liver and of the spieen and of
and cracks appeared on
tili
my
for
and smeared
il
on
il
and wetted
Ins finger
his tonarue;
while \ve both wept; and ihcn
my
and hc
hc spuke and
son,
lel
me
days with him, some strangers came
to
him; and, when he saw them, he
\,iw
ihiii
1
have seen
nlaced both his liands on
him
:
«
on flowins: more than before
Vi
;
This cannol be earlier lhan 540 (see [nlrod. and
wo musl supposc years
i-
given
below
lhal ;i>
S.
tbe
livi
füll
irs
I
li
0.
After] had spenl a few
And
head, and went on weeping.
Wherefore do you weep, our father?
tears wen! l.
his
die
ol
lii-
in
and
»,
il
decrepil
seclusion,
al
I
said to
me; and
his
midst of his sisrhs he said
in the
I
llie
and he looked
we reckon State
which
10
years
describcd
therefore
did
83
fr«
above. nol
p. 85]
Moreovor
begin
before
^
^
LIVES ÜF SIMEON AND SERGIUS
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«nee
seit
—
Ms. 001
2.
Christ
Ms. •i-oiic
3,
comes
me on
to
vashtemanddrink».
But
I,
own
Ins
in order that
yo« washed hun as mnch as he wished.
and I cannot rise and he might be com rted wa
feet,
And now
his will
be done
And
^-«-»^oheknows.andwillnotdoyonwrong.weepnot, '
»«
'
8
t::e „
•
»
a
doer of
wrong and one who have done him wrong, and who am inu ihimas
-™
g
?. "z:r ,mel '-'-''-n,l. h
"
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n,
"^
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becanselprovofc
«2
i
m
and
** -ason he past me down. ^^^^wasareadyadeadmaninthebod^mensupporting ,S
f
„;
'"TT'
b0ndmen
for
,
?
TT
He mSiSt6d ° n their com -8 «P before him and on strlhinJ etchmg ont,"! his hand, weeping, and dipping it in the water in which the
Btrangers had been washed, and taking A short time before a persecution
i«
and sme aring
had been set on
lhesy nod ofGhaIc e don<,andmenwhop l,l
iJ,
t
^:::;;;
'
l,v,
"
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'
Mi1
tbe
fool
i,
on Ins bod3
by those « ho served
ssessedthenameonlyofchurchmen
-
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23
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i
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JOHN OF EPHESUS. „
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Lol
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..006. |o«
erased.
-
Ms.
2.
V»ö=-b-
imprisoned, and man, agai» they gr
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the)
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v<
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inhabited
line follow. Points., above the
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, they redoeed
and merodes
Ulj
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aome
,
Id
ehnrehme»)
I
whenthesa
man' .
at
«, -«
dooe things »,,-, belog
r*.
*ey
h.
had
as
u was
in the
•„,
fact
^^ ^^
^
»
^£^££5,
betöre also
„„,„.
,„,
in
by
""*>
Mw, M-**
theiroblationintothe.rmonths. *'';,.,, men Uvcdjm which these b esaed
vmag e
^^ „^ ^
ntalithhi
lertho
.
poaition,
)
diS hevig UneeUon, and they aaw , ifflpIt cloak of persnaaio, dece ^re ght tha, «hq their part tl eforeth „henthe ,- ,..,»"»>hia Side»ent. orl ";,,,,.,„„„„, „,„,,,,„
ind
I
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d-ciple.
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OF SIMEON AND SERG1US.
LIVF.S
97]
ya\ K.^. :t0^e)jo yCL^J; V*^
yo^^o
->;
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w.01
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vQJot
97
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p
yoooo't^' aV^&ii
Jj/ .yooi^.
\.Sol
U\ OU^.M
vs.q.Jl^
1.
is
Ms.
-.J.jl^.13
l^-bo
°*
nothing wrong, but agree and accept
than
in Ins
speech and
oil,
salvation
doctrine that
saying to him,
'—
'•^J /
^Q.£i.J
^
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»3 oi^ o
Loot
L3...i—
while they on thcir side said these
»,
«
own window You are
on
fear,
I
serve'
3
in
,
tum
({%«), and will curse
And
Lis
tlieir
part also began
22.
PATR. OH.
2.
—
im' mit, as
to
is
for
Stand
accept
my
a
lifc's
Willi T, XVII.
you
in
to
them
:
«
I
our Lord Jesus
the middle
yqur
faces,
ofthem you and
I
will
come out
no1
lives,
go up
will
the head
agitated by his words, and
jupflriTia.
—
own methods,
tlieir
no possibility ofyour staying
speech was ilms keen and cutting,
men were vi more i.\,
to
1
«
with the
'whose
I
am
the middle of the church, while the wholc city
assembled, before them and
».
words are
them,
to
cursed
you proclaim, since yon advise nie was sealed
Cumc, come out; since therc
But, ifyou
and wlioin
Tlieir
«
inasmuch as he was vigorous
»',
wicked men.
evil
Hut the hlessed Sergius said
».
ofmyself.
Ps.
!
.Li/
.u»a3
Hut these men, when they heard the anathema upon them
».
spokcn boldly- without
I-
J.3»oi;
j-ia-V^o loot
quaternity instead of the Holy Trinity, in which
these
-.oj^.
otii ^öi .-JKjl^o
said in the psalmist,
he cried from Ins
in his zeal,
up and go away from here, deceitful
is
and they are arrow-points
softer
gatiun
^./
jJ/
^wo.
things to hiin softly and gently, as
here
^iö
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a^3
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^i ^"\oi
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1'.
1.
3.
Acts, XXVII,
like
t<>
i-
the chancel
ofyour congrea
sword.
they pulled
down
27. s
Hut his
*
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a.
1
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JJ-^mN
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k-^t-^ MV*-3 o^vj
lic
J__x*o,.-^.
J^-v.»
came
2
I10
ledged the
oftheir 3
order to gratif) those
go
to
to enter
him as
faith.
him, in order sy
liis
ihis
man
i
t-.il
l.
li
I-
liaril e
Im
.;
1
i
I
i"
si
\
inan\
in dccciv<
.
And
In
>
means
and sa^
underslaml
l"
Li
tu
-
"^Ss-^v-soo
Jot;
and went
V^J-»®
to the holy still alive,
struggle (iyüv) againsi the to
had voluntarily
thus two bishops passed
Maro 4
whal
lifted
np
away and
Bul thethird,
.
in bis pride
and
man. advising and admonishing and cajoling
to
Lol thls
catch him
Main nlltnlcs.
of
—
2.
Ihe sce (£ach. Rh., VIII
1
impiety ofthe accursed
to the cvil
ihis vvas if
liis
a
great and celebrated mau,
only in speech,
ol
in
column agrees w
Sc. of [ngila
been behveen 519 and 522, the succession
M
..
-.-OtOj^M
monastery; unless perhaps one 01
appointed him, was
And, because
night
n
Joch vrows'too
yoj^o
vvere by chance, vvho
it
bring him into subjection
to
of Chalcedon.
I
\\
the blessed
to
ot
did not neglect to carry
died one after the other, and none molested the holy
presumed
n\
.»
)i-=^?
Jod.../;
set out
this
U*>
ranks of the heretics, and bring ashamed acknow-
in the
in
»
days, while he was
in liis in
man
^f^
Joch
were much ashamed before him and feared 3
in to
numbered himself falsity
^.-/
\» v> ©V--^! -«*^
ouo-^flo/;
blessed
tlie
same night
happened
tliis
send, or anyone to presume
the clergy (nWipoe)
)
J_=>;
<_.cho-.;OjJ
^
.^cl^Jjl
But
J,..a,
Jc*icuuK>o
^.choN.-/
-.6t
liim out.
bishops
the
.vo't^o
0001
.yOCHl.cuLia_.ot
J-jldoio
^.»Jl
001
^-»
also contended fortwenty years
heretics'; bul
innma;
Jl
yOCH-^a^K-s OU^J
n m;'sl
J-l^-/ .JfcC_\_*_ja ,_s/
the stylite; because
even as
)3^
JkM;
Joch
oatlis lipon ilirni; but the
liis
Maro
^cou
jooi
.JlJLSO-^ Otlo_x ""^j/o .«->-* /o «J-Odis--./
-.Jjch
J^^J?
Window, and dragged out
ju/
,Jo .-nn^VcH;
v-oojchjo-co»
och
Jjoi
ou»
-.locH
^
oiioi-iOjLj»
_/-/
Kjißiisl ^-.V~;o
jj| 0/ .'voitJü;
K-ch-s
«fcooaia; ^a^s-io
io °l
'J»°»
t-a
o-o^Vot ^jxdq^; Jj<sJ \j°^> .r*****
ofc^soo oV-=^
»JS-s
t_S^-^-'!
^*3^
ji)^3N.iö
Jl/ .Joch
Jjcdo
.JjiL-
vOJc*ix
>
.chIol^ vcoo-yJ^ »
och;
^
.
—
Joot
"WOo —Vicu
.«V-A
JJ/
ou^p 1
ou*>
lo^
JjL^.O
Uau./
»a/;
^? °9« .-oia.n..2>/o chIco o'Ha.,b>o ..a-A;l*/ \j|o .vü-SU J.-V^ op JJ/ .ot&oöaio ^ows
.l-JLsa^
JJ
yppo
OCH
^^~~ v=l^ yj
^ic/
-.2>o
[«all
bishops
sec p, 56, al
—
i
order by him 1
:i.
[ngila musl
1
us »; and,
Sic syr.
—
l.
A,s
have been rapid,
LIVES OF SIMEON AXD SEftGIÜS.
[99]
yuw/
^»; oot
J-L-so..^
^.oiQ.ia-.i2S.s
:J^„äjL3
,J lX
.— o«ajL»cL- ^.^.-.^Lso oöousojl
a.\ M
J;oi
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;
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3 «.oilotS.
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.«nju^i
>s/
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^-^
oooi
-.JoiAj-s ^a*3-«o
JJ
sS^-o
Jlo_fcs-LM
Jlo-^b^^i
K.-JL-»CQ.D
^V^j^ioo
uuua ];o»A
J.*j/
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..yj^io;,!/
-öi :JÄol^.o
vlt ? »
lv~.
_A^i6
p
JJ
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JJ
jJ;
.J.J.-.iio
99
^o-^
J.Jt-31/o
^o
-ik~»./
^o
.ogu-si t-^«
omo^cv».;
J.t:soio
J.a.3aioo
|
oCS— »
otlcxS.
N
yO ^cl-^sk
t-a>
vOOi^Va.^ ^.i. iJ^Jv-.po ^iö;o
)j_^|"
\^mL^u
.y^io.3^. ^_io I.
if
Ms.
tlns
a w
N.
:*'
^io;
otol
^^o
oiN~.lJ.-io
^^ U^»
"-'*»
vo^io
:),!/
vooitaio^^.o
yOOtN^ÄaLioo :)Voat3;
).jl^£)i
N^o..3J;
öila^io Ötla-^Äl^^^^-iO
^-.3oi (jLsa^ Jlcia,;
<*^ po/ -.j<*^
ooiö?
Jjl-^-oj
J.iio...oi.iöi
^a£-io;
-
had realJy happencd, numberless persona would indeed have beeil But the blesscd man, as one thal was a
deceived and broughf to this'. valiant
man and wise
fear his threats
denier of
;
God and
lloly Trinity,
holychurch
in
God, did not yield to
but as a valiant
man
a deceiver, with
blasplxeölies
like
a
in his pride
his intention,
and with
prophets and proclaimed
in the
were secretly introducing a quaternity,
drug with honey
And
people of the believers to drink.
humbled
in the
in the apostles, those inen
diluting their
blandishments, nor yet
of his opinion, and that instead of the
all
which was delineäted
liis
he in 'everything showed bim to be a
so he
give
to
was dismissed from
his plans frustrated, since
r
them
to
the
his presence,
he had not elfected
and even fecoiling 2 from his presumption, as he also soon
received a castigalion on this account and a huniiliation of his pride, which
wc
decline even to describe because of
'of the subjeet.
When
holy Maro, and he
its
fearful
nature and the greatness
camc to the very same coming and slied lütter tears, on
therefore the blessed Sergius
was
startled
at
liis
account of the distresses of the helievers and the cruelty of the renegades,
and the ejcetiou of the saints from God's sake, ho said to him, 1.
Sc. the synod. --
l>.
«
tlieir
What
Or 'he (Maro) had
not
places of close seclusion chosen for
is it,
done
my
his will
son? whal has happencd that and even reeoiled
',
24 i' a.
JOHN OF EPHESUS.
100
Loo
..c*^ *ö_sj 001 »s/o yoi .^c*-oot
•
^üo
yo+zo
.Joot»
JKioäiai
Ljüo
.001
J.Ju.,-0
p
Jjus
ool 0000
.cxlaS.
ya^JJo
yQ^J
jio
/
/
k-l/ Uio
.J-sioC^
'^a^^V-»
IV* o^* )^-«-po ö^^3 yo^a yOj/
v
^^
<*..,—
iu
^^i.
oiJL2ui
^n°vv>
.<*^
w^')^*/
oCS.
y2>i »s/
[100]
Ua£ o«
^aiJ
y>V~-?
»sv£ ^*? v^"2»/ .^a-^j-flo Jjl^jsl-; oiKiia^>o
joot
^t^-01
,\a^-; ows> ^°?° ^J.J-m
^\
^u,
"
«J
*
li
sxdq._«>
r"
Corr.
K
»
1
-o<
f>;
^.Sx^ja^ K.o ,3o
.
pö/
Joe*
of
done, and
hail beeil
to liim
and go
;
and
too desired
Why
Il
my in
is
w.öt
latter
all
end and
I
I.
Acl
vine,
ihei
sound of
thy
hither?
for
my
evil
and the distress
days, to
my
to
r
we
sobs
i
.
16.
all
go
they
assembled heard these things
also,
weeping with sobs, saying,
what times
of thy believers,
was saying these things with
lo
if
inside the church
heaven',
feeling
wepl with him.
«
our
Alas
have been preserved.
I
I
should
and the persecution of thy
my
'
Havemercy, Lord,
.
with thy Lord,
and the vine which thy righl hand planted' 2
his pitiful
»
him everything
soül from ine, rather than that
'Behold from
cross.
And
had been afraid of his master, and had not
remember thy church which thou purchasedst
savedst with
höh
\0-=/
moreover had bound himself by oaths
too being
thy power, Lord, to take
ilii-
)jl-»-o
have you come
church which thou purchasedst with thy precious blood
visil
"JL^io
learn about the ejection of Sergius the recluse; but
to
see the buffetings
and
^»1^ *3;i/o
Jj~~_>
weeping, related
father continued beating on Ins breasl and for
Lsia^o
^.^JCxa.^öi.io;
•
j^-^—so
before the wholc city
tln'in
When we
turned him out.
we
.
your master? Has even he also come out?
hat they
l
that he himself
and curse
in
K-mXO;
JJ.*-po
the zealous Sergins, himself also
gone
»,-,.._>
your seclusiun?
\vha1 has befallen mir holy father
thal
^.
cxLa.3_.MO
6-k-J-
fr
you have come out
Then
*lp;
-
otK.^— ^.a-x
Jfcooa_xV
I.
>a—
^-io
b. JLfciOA
y-io»-^
)^-»-Q-»
and with But,
passion and
'and see; and ».
VVhile our
bitter sobs, at the
when he had been
i
LIVES OF SIMEON AND SERGIUS.
[101}
^.^o
w—jltsjj rjx$ .yci^s^oo
JVoäo ^aiso
J^j
jJo
^.^^io
-.|j/
J»qj
.ot-^a^'o oiLq.jÜOs..*.— )|—
jl^xS. .^-»-°l j.icni
\
-Jt-3»
^0
JJo
3
t—! Jv 3
.oüai>
.ypo ^^-^o
oot .wC^O. JJ\
«^^
J^—SjJ- i^o
j?
JJ*
;aAo
JJ/
.(.o^oj
JKjupo
and Ionger
silent for a little time
sOÄJ .
o.l
he gave Orders that the blessed
(jaäXXov),
Sergius should retire to rest, inasmuch as he was weary from the After a day and
walk.
tlie
My
you are throwing yourself
son,
hand of cruel and
are about to fall iuto the
Beware
endure.
trial to
me
pray for
and
God, and
iire will
But only pray for
lauds,
among
».
in
on the
and you
the blessed Sergius said to him for
my
and you have a :
«
Our
fallier,
am prepared for renegades who inaligu part
But the blessed man, when he saw his ürmness and
peace
day
»-.
«
Our Lord strengthen
Bul the blessed Sergius set out and reached
of the
week
at
daybreak.
Then he weat
straight
and, vvhile the whole city were sitting 2 after the morning
thern he also
Instruments of torlure.
(no doubl
him and
him and sent him awav, saying,
the city on the holy ürst
the church;
tried to restrain a strüggle (iywv),
inerciless inen,
I
of
not frighten me, nor sword, nor scourgings, nor rakes'.
me
Go
son.
iuto
ell'ort
of cärrying
men who were perseeuting
contend until death with the
will
1
readiness, blessed
my
».,
our Lord's sake; because
for
suffering,
you,
at thein, the
And, when the blessed man
God's holy church. said, «
two days had passed, he was desirous
and hurling anathemäs
out his oaths
1.
^o
o».\ao
JJo
Ms. oni. slop.
1.
to
,vaa|
*
^-— Oo;
JoC^jJ
JK.JL.,^a\ ^ÖJLiOO
J^ÖQ-o-»
i*-«»-
^n^ Aa3
^».oot
Ji^'Kio jla:*^ J^o^
.J.j/
.J"2'"*-
k3/o :ooot ^-..-sl^w
ooi
^io
jj/j
U-aa^ ^i
,.:>
p
^-.j
,
).*.—
«^ ^w-^so
jJ
--JN.*
101
floor)
—
2.
who enjoyed
This seems
during Ihe sermon.
—
3.
to
the
show
Abraham
that
name at
that
of Arnida.
of the bishopric
3 ,
and
time Eastern congregations sal
*
-24
V
:
/
JOHN OF EPHESUS.
102
ujjoaio
i">
y,- »
c*.*-X
-^^o
joool
oi^.v»
..^-.;
^
)c n
Q-flß
^o
,>n
)tvjL
J.X^Jl»
"^a^io
mi wOo»/o
^^
»^o/o OtU—O 01»0^S OI.XäS.0
)K-JUxpo
was seen
question straight
clad in a
in,
to the
(*?)[*«.),
th.it
he
make
[cr/ß\Lx)
!ie
to say
was standing, flung
came
fore are
straisdii
made
in silence,
Bomething either
to
him
sacred
:
Evi)
«
to the
2.
(öp6o&o![o$)
Mallh.,
noi their
in
tla3
also
own,
without askina
to
vii. C.
mount.
And, when
and everyone supposed
to the city or to the
bishop or to
where the preaclier
him by the neck and gfasped
wicked man, our Lord commands 'Give
dogs, aor pearls* before the swine' 2
you speaking the words
—
jJ;
Bu1 the blessed man. as sobn he reaclied tho
out his hand and seized
him tighlly, and said
u
^oj.'-°
was standing and speaking, was Struck with astonishment, and they looked
mount one and two steps
was going
is
JoOt
yO^U
was
that
a request of them, he on reaching the third Btep,
not that which
•
v,.*
patchwork of rags made of sackcloth, and
planted bis cross on the Step and
he had bcgun to
k*>La^>
and, while the preacher
that;.
what the matter was.
to see
Lmo_o
)^X
>
nX'tio
middle ofthe church, without speaking orturning
he paused, white everyone
chancel
Ol^i/
p
v
onlv without communicating), then suddenly
carryine his cross on Ins Shoulder, and
way and
'•^J
the door of the church a stränge and outlandish sight; and
al
an anchorite coming
this
^
x-^u
who were orthodox
everyone was startled when they saw a form
a
©°t
^^
.-Jü/ "^50
"
:vA_.Kjl
:L=uSÜl^
jJo
:o»sl>o
j»>
:
'^
congregation duringthe hearing of the Service and
in the
the Lessons and the preacher, there
"*^M
oj^oo
»?».«>
listening to the preacher (because those
uscd to be present
<x=k
.O^
V>t.Ä
NJt^o JK^V-s»-*»
^-J—o
o/
•.)*-»>—
yoouk—
s oooi
3 -.)j^o 1-=^ Jjlsäoo o/
^a\
y>t^o;
^/?
t-
vOj.~J oooi
«.JU^J
"^
Mj-ü
JJ;
auK~{ Loo
.»
.J^-JL/
,jo
.o£> JLa .i-*>/o Joo« 7>J^° )><**>/
L-V; ^so
% . -1
jJJaji
\Xr
.
jl-^.0 :^L:m jU.^/ JV-*^
)K^;i-s
JJL^,;
JjL^a^ Ji-CL»,
^
^1^0 .) Ll:*>
p
.csjl
oft
J-
^^o
«ju/
)
)l o°>nnn
J_üo
Joot
Litöio JNjLiaAl;
roioi.
:jl^j öi*o>pa^
^>
jJ
*fc-sj
^Vlo
:
^.^ociJlo
:Jioio]J
Eiv^ )iaioj;o
<£m jv^im/ o,>~ ^J
"^^iaio
1).
oooi
v oot^>
>
24 V D
\a^>o
^-^ot ^/;
J.älsojJ.V/;
[102]
of
God
before
men who denyhim?
where-
,
»
Ami
1/
IJVES OF SIMEON AND SERGIUS.
[103:
vxdojojjojd l^ov—.io .J^oiV
JjJOtO .loicuo
Jl^'I
..ooo«
^
^-.V^o'P
,^a^ vo;Q-a3; So
öu^-»/
' .
,oua3.
o».^
Ms.
1.
—
i'i.
swung
he
his
-ota^.
^
-
J.io ,J
**j/
i^?
,^JLjTS^^a^oo
^.^oto
>
.iooc
hand round and gave him a
the renegades; cursed
tlie
3l -. o 1.
jLo *-.
^oo/j
ooi ^clo
K-—^a^s.
JJL^O^
^q^jo
w^aji/
.odo-s,
Jjlooio
from von and
the hlessod
und distorted
bullet,
And
persecutors; cursed it.
Cursed
mouth;
liis
he himself sprang up and
chancel-steps (ß^a), and said
are the
Chalcedon, and whosoever assents to
When
J,
Ms; ^0.
stund in his place at the top of
the oblation
ö&O
oot
jooi
v^ota-^xt^;
and he seized him and shook him down.
are
)Kj-.^o
>v aA.jJa^L.;
^^
.J.:sa>*
ow-.j-s
,J^oJ-sj
•.^r*^^° \OOUiOO ,^»_a\£0
Jjxxi^ uJ^jio jj^-s/; J1^.SJ%^
^-j...^— o
)abJju
-2.
^ioi--— ic .jVaaa ^iov.:^io .Vio|o
j^Q-ü^; ^C^ot yä
-/fiel
103
is
is
every soul
Cursed
«
:
synod
the
tliat
of
reeeives
assents to your opiniou unless he repents
man had cried tliese among the clergy
».
words in a loud voiee, great turmoil
and confusion prevailed
(x>.^po;)
and (he people and the
some expressing Indignation, some crying, « This Let no toacher of error, let him be arrested », and some crying, hands upon him and die ». And so the whole city became one
bishop, suiiic threatening,
man man
is
a
lay
intense
cc
volume
upon the blessed man, the man who was practised quieted the people by saying, into the vestry-,
he
aecomplishing his will See
p. 79.
—
2.
«
in pernicious wiles rose
Be so good' as to
let
the blessed
and we will speak, and see what his business
House
is
and
man come
»;
and thus
withdrawing him from the people, and then upon him. When the crowd (oj^o«) had dispersed,
sueeeeded by a dick
1.
and the
of sound, the adversaries expressing indignation,
Since they feared on aecount of the people to lay their hands
believers joy.
in
of the Btaxovmöv.
* ?:,
r
JOHN OF EPHESUS.
104
).x3ot -.oiJLio
oi^v
)oo)
s~Jä»3}
V-^v
Jjl./
.öu>
\a^io
},ri.»»^
1.
Ms.
—
->.
pa^.*
-.jJji^
y.../o
—
Ms. o».
Ms.
0111.
own
cause paiu
^^j^o
striking
npon
of bheir malice
ascetic profession the
1
honoured habil
assigned nun
to
Armenia
that
conüned
in the
was
vvho
seni
is
liini.
hini,
i
liis
)t-M^
Jjl.^äV.o^
^ioK^j
|K.i».i l o
JJji
tA^XO;
* * r> ,
'^^io
At
when
last,
they went on
liis
all
all
it,
each
body could not supplv
liis
oll'
attack
savagely attacked
cruel disposition and
they had vented
shave
t<>
and
the
all
venom
marked
the hair that
his
(since
he as well as the blessed Simeon his master wore
n/ln.-j.)
ofthe anchoritic
him, and sent him tu called 'tryz,
löwesl dungeon thither
and in a
life),
a
would be better
il
reckon
it
appy. menns thnl the> ähaved
od
Ihe
of
anehorites in
for a Christian to be
prison than in that monastery
was thenceforth reduced
to
and pul irons upon him, and
certain house
2
to
utter despair,
they used to
sent to them; since Ihey were vers
heresy, and they used
1
°d,o'r->J;
j^-.
»»)^.JLio
y,*.!^'
so they
it,
even
sides, so that
inflict
;
for
anvone
on aecount
on the man
zealous for the tenets of the
as an acl of justice to torture believers.;
and accordinglj thej would stand over them
liim bald
JLi..a/;
-Jooi
in a fiehl
from
(f/ipoc)
of the boundless severity ofsufferings vvhich
who was
-^H^
yO^icui Jjlscl^ v3/o
(.ioa—l
.
o
^*> voc*i>o
a_a.-.,)\jj
Jts^äwiK.^ O0O1
place vvhere he could exercise
witli a
1>\
all
^
3
tr>
j-
portion
the blessed Sergius from
J-351
^ ^üo
.otJaj
.J^JLioiJ-i;
^^S.^3l£Q^Ö;
.^ca^XDioti
•
3.
j
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then like ravening beasts vvho und a sheep
them
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bau
llial
like
reraa
executioners not one or two
I
after
llic
astic tonsure, leaviug
LIVES OF SIMEON AMD SERGIUS.
[105]
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who used
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from Ins side and
hundred); and accordingly those their
But the holy Sergius, being conlined
monastery on the third
^3 jaj.o
&l
.f^o/o
J.*.ot;
JJ
were conlklent that
to lhat place
^3
laa_j.~^
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.•JjLStWpo JoC^JJ -;o/ c*^
they were about three
send
accomplished.
^-.'^^io
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hundred only, but each mie öf them would pull him
torture
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|—
L05
purpose would be middle of the
in the
by God's help escaped from them on the
third
day, having even slipped out of bis irons, and a certain pitcher for water,
which was the only thingthat he had with him, he also
in the
ardour grasped in his band, and he climbed up to Ins iloor, it
2 ,
and he leaped with that pitcher also in
and he came down and stood on
so he escaped from them, his face before him,
and came
and said
:
«
sir,
the third
irons with
outside the monastery.
And
master; and he
upon
to bis holy
Now,
band and the
his
bis feet
keenness of bis
window on
I
feil
have leamed that God loves
you, and intruth hears you; since, unless the mediation of your prayers helps, il
would have been quite impossible
for nie to see
had related everything to him, he gave thanks for his
build a
I.
monastery
is
—
When
».
God,
who
In'
cares
But afterwards he asked his master's permission to go and
own.
Sic- syr.
Statement
your face
to the merciful
i\
in a certain
What was
the use
of
mountainous tlie
inconsistent with whal precedes.
irons?
II
il
district
is
belonging
anl that
they were
to a village
slill
on him. the
*
25 v" u.
JOHN ÖF EPHESUS.
L06
J.
ÄV^ VrNOl,
po
>ö.;q.jl
JkM
^-^.3 too,-» J^jlä ,J.-Vi°
^o^joK-Io
^3l3
»25 v°b.
>Otis
Ms.
O^ä/o
-.)»•*?
o
J^— Jljs
|j,-oa.3
liis
cross and
llie
came
village, and they
^
oa—
^o
commi
And
a
auch a place
»;
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,j>
.
y ^ ShN
-ooj>~ +20
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periuission and blessed
and went and erected
down and prays
ktieels
And
him.
011
in
to his
house to
proportion
was
to
erected
somcthing
lind
his ability, while in
desolate
Lliat
at
foundations,
having
him
finished,
man
is
the
adversaries heard tho
building a monastery in such-and-
once appointed to go ont and pull the
«
to us
and signify to him also besides that vou '
:
and
if
von see that he
ready and
is
ahme, and do not bring him lipon us firsl
declared and professed
«
Why!
».
Then
perhaps he
and run away from ns ». And, when they came, thev found man Standing and reciting the service; and, when they saw him, to him Since you have buill a monastery without an order we
afraid,
the blessed
Ihey said I
Sic svr.
he
cross there,
informing them of las pürpose
liis
monastery
a
was completelv
leave him
sei out,
And
him. liis
few days, there being almndance of wator there.
and men were tu ils
vvilling to «•(um',
li"
ok. «3/
),-.?
days,
desire to arrest and bring
men
^a^
Jv-;
.Jal.3
in tue
he
Thal audacious stubborn
monastery down
these
j^ioo
for three
also
in a
the monastery
news,
J-=>V~
soum people saw him and gave Information
to
fTorl
mountainous region
will
«3/
^£^>o
i-a^j
bestow upon the blessed man's prayer
When
.fcocu^l/ Jv-J -JiQ^!
\&SCl». cd\11
weic pleased; and each one of them ran
by the
.|^aaa-/o
^-^ot axiaji «.^o^ ^Jii
l»-3
saint's blessing,
night and day; and then
tu
^^-oio
liii.
and recites the service.
lln'\
^otoJ>-*
^J \o
>^JSuOO
aiOfLD ^3 '.yOAäJ „_^\o| ^-^.'Ol
-.vQ.iwJo/
Qlwfyte; and he gavc htm
called
took
0111.
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1
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qjl^\Ij yol^j/ ^*^.*-s;
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:
«
;
L1VES OF SIMEON AND SERGIUS..
[107]
.
Lagern.»
la\
»/
^
been .ordered
••
po/
Jj/
».
oaths
« lf
:
to pull
you are
in truth
will lay tlie first ax to
who
sent you
».
it;
Then
».
and
lixed
lie
Lord to the
it
And
».
,
^a
«T^
Jot
U«
aXbcn.
^*jl*^5
in the fervour of his zeal said to
il"
down and
your desire,
is
it
Wlieu those men saw to liim
«
:
We
we do man was
that he
will
go
lirst :
«
to run
Goine,
eome
it
ground
in
and take
when they had
down
his ax,
g'lorv to
liere is
one day; and he himself was assisting them to do the But,
you
to the
in
they, because they were inanv, pulled the monastery
of demolition.
1
mysclf
I
in before
are tinlv ordered to pull
the
Li
was ready, they were
not desire von to
the wall and said to them
to
JJ
them with
dcsire to do so, 1
JJ
».io/o
•,|ia^.^
K...J~2>ioj
yolxj/
J-tio,
c+^^ä^j;
oo»o ryooit-a^'
)»fJL3 .jjLJla "JLv^jiV
^.juaiö
V-^?/
^-J-*^-1»
.ol lV ooCS>
^2l!~^o
Joo»
..vol^-a^
ordered to pull
the Idessed
in
Ix,..)
20^ ^- ^°'
Jn».ooi
and are prepäred to do so; but bishop
,—.,-^0.9
your monastery down, aud conduct you
aud,
and they say
afraid of liim;
.voo^
v/» .JJ&Oc&äa.a
J-1-
yO^J;
•«•,f>
v a3lo-2t*^
But the blessed man
bishop
l't-*-3
•yt^o^ |—.ao.*.
vf-'9>
\cy»-Jo JisL^ao Jjq
yotC^jioN;
3
^ot'
J^VaaS. vaatSoil; vo.aj^ jotSx
.^_^\oi
to liim
^_»;
aA
v^a>>.
-
\-a*
1
JVaao ^-.alu a$^> . v
.J.3»oi
hiive
^^.bo
^»t-»-
/
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o^t-
J.*.iO^JD
|L*.^co*
•vOOiS. V^o/ ".t-2
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K~o/o
JI\..ßDj.-5
^-«.i >.ooot
^o
\°^ J
^.-Ovoo yojjo^lt
>v o)^j/
107
our
down wprk
and he was himself
finished their task,
urging them to drag away the wood and stones and thrpw them outside, he saidto them
:
«
Listen now, evil wieked men.
renegades against grace deserved with nie here.
it,
I
In truth
God wilhouf your heing aware
constrained you to subvert these huts, as to which niy
mind
trust in
in
eonsequenee of the
our Lord Jesus that
I
fact that
shall
I
say to you that,
would thank von greatly of I
wli.it
was
l'or
von
liave
done
truly exercised
they were built in haste; and now
now
if
labouring
build a monastery indecd here
iii
I
».
;.
JOHN OF EPHESUS.
L08
•».iö/j
Vyio yOÜ^LaLÄ
>^-~ -.J^ljso^ .(Ikso
ycuS>~~
26 r
i>.
^-^^ ^
^.N
-.U~oi
1.
M>.
— oi-^o;
They say
lu liim
all
this
JK^^vj
v.
I>.
we
them
yeuno
^a.^0.^0
t—a^o .l^fcJO
J-*«»t"0
Jo..öd
p
y'y-plo
y^o^U;
^~>o
J.
^.i— joK~*j
)0lSJa.
-.JL*^
-.^.oto^-s^.
J-»^-0
Ms. ^• :v-
down again ». He on liis liim who built the liouse if so be von pull it down malte more spacious and I will make it down ». Then they departed if von pull
von rebuild,
:
as inany as thirty times,
stronger than before
will pull
it
all
I
my
will life,
if
ii
thence, vvonderingal thefervour and the vigour of the man.
maa dug and he built a
delved deep and laid the foundations
substantial
plantation, and
And,
^.^ioilSv.io
o.JLko otfcoöa_.
J-öj
—
and L.
Jj/
j.cc|Es>»
jfcooj
.c*.sj
»s/
°ot
^^3
|..ia— v.^.
JLi«»»
^3lN'1/o ^oI^.»./o .)Kä^' )ioiO»£Q.i
^_iO
w.Ota.s/
yj»
oiIo.£l.v..-..s
!S^.l~o^o
.
ool
^iö .^0.3^
>.JÜUal
Take whal I say to you. By world and was called the carpenter's son;
side says to of
IT
«
:
I-.ijso
.ol^j
Liezenberg ap.
corr.
otN.*.^
otlcuk^x.^-*. .so
;
.J-i*^*^
och
^oa^s
..J-JU»
Jjoi
-.jj^aa oijKo Jl/o
yooi^o; ^a^ c»1q.\vUsj
^.1
J.ia^.io
»yJ*o
jv_»;
>k-so
JJLSJ
otla\ >clsJ*o
wiol
oCS.3
Iv^^v
o,>jo .Jtoa..«^.—
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monastery and made
it
011
wenl
to
and
strong; and he planted a
made an enclosüre round, and made
after a shorl time, he
But the blessed
a spacious basis;
a very desirable place
be blessed by the holy old
man
his
'
master
and ihr summons followed him, and he ended
his life wiih him there bearins good testimony; and he was laid out 2 and buried by his spiritual l'ather, who was still in good health. But the holy Simeon after living brilliantly in his
eclusion forty-scvon years a ended
1
days, and himself also
his
feil
asleep in
whose prayers, with those of all the saints his companions, may all we wretched men gain merc} in the daj ofjudgment. The tale of the healings and deeds of power and eures thal God wroughl peace
1.
—
_'.
;
bj
Perl
"o^I
liould
iu in
,,.
be identifled with
round
in
this sense.
'
-
S. 3
who
has now
See p
94, n.
rebuilt |ko»«»' (Zach. Rh., .vin, 5).
LIVES OF SIMEON AND SERGIUS.
[109]
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J)^^»!; )laa.;/
•*U-o»
V^o^?
)ooi
Jtsj-^io; J»ot Jjao
^so .ouio .
U^.1
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p;
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va^.a«'l|o
"VJL*.
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Jjl-,-o
-.ou* ^aaf^L'fe -oioj^ooo o^j|
s-^; -lob,
J-L»
^^ioo
.Jj/
M
^V-
&l
Ms. oni. stop.
1.
glory by the band öf this holy old
for ins to
Jju»hOo
Jfl-o
ooV^'Aoa^o .^jj-ia^
uJb
N aau)L-/
|jo>Ji
^X>
^üb^ooo .a^KjL*x\
J»ot
109
relate; aiul für this reason,
wishing
man
the time
to av.oid a
is
sliort of the
recorded these things only, thereby falling far
too sliort for
lengthy narrative,
who knew
him; so that another great and holy
who
desert bore testimony abont
man;
to
which
it is
lived in the south
not only
in the
man, since, when some men
1
inner
me
have
splendid glories
who was man and
of this
I
a witness, but all
'seer of spiritual visions also
the
l'rom the territory (/.w?«) of the city öf
old
Amida
for the harvest (because men are in the habit uf going southern country for the harvest), they heard-of that saint, and were eager to go and be blessed by him; and, when they had gone and had come to him and been blessed by him, he askcd them, « Whence are ymi,
were going down
down
my
to the
sons?
said to
»;
them
and they :
«
said,
wherefore did von come to of
From
«
But what,
my my
Amida, wherefore did you
the northern country, fortv years,
who
the north of
sons, do
wretched
1
Amida
for
my
seif?
lf
The blessed man know? and
».
part really
you
are from the north
not go to the pillar of light which Stands in
to-day has been serving God
and has not grown tired or weary, nor
is
in
his saints
for
yet satiated with so
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ooio
yasioiaj ;<x.u Jjlook
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^^;
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OF EPHESUS.
JoilN
110
v
ms
i
cu
,
and ihc following words
Thi.«
.
my
Wherefore,
doing?
God
W
sons,
diel
practices and
purposo that
of his
to
o^
5)
I.
who is
.Ua~
K-ooto
jJj^o
Jiiä*
are written in an erasure.
you not go
persons of the weary,
in Ihr
.^V*
yQ-Joi
yoot^ »-A3» Ua-./ Jjü/ ^--\oi ^.j
to this
man, who has refreshed
has also cansed the savour of bis
good and acceptablc
at
'
times
all
But these men on hearing these to reach to the heavens of heavens? » continued eritreating him and and faces on their thinss from the saint feil saying « Who, sir, is he of whom you have said these things to us? » But the blessed man, in aecordance with whal our Lord also taught in Ins :
preaching, lel
vom-
Simeon
the recluse
idle
man
sinfnl
to be
always fervenl
pray
for
lc
and
him as he
I,
Ri
n
me
'
'
'
heavens
» -.
says to these
:
«
This
in
the desert entreats
r
)
me and
ou,
«
As
say to him, 1
know von
your love towards God, perform an aet of love, and
in
the
these hobj
seven
them,
Matlh,
men
living in seclusion on the top of a hill in the
is
settled
But
».
informed said to
the
in
is
who
Bul go to him, and greel him l'rom
village of Kalesh.
•An
», and again « So men, that they may sce your good works and
A city built upon a mountain cannot be hid
your fallier that
glorify is
«
lighl shine before
v.
14,
Hl.
men,
Simeon
as of
the
blessed
man
these things;
veara before his
enjoined
them,
and they said
to
departure from the body,
LIFE OF
[in]
^o«
^jkJ*> ^ot^o
*?
PAUL TUE ANCHOUITE.
-.)V^ ^°?
Jooi
^*.
oU-o.2Lio ?
J>aio Jo^JJ Ja/
lli
\so
J-Jl*.
yo^>
.
voo«^
Jjl^ po/j
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00 °»
r£c*3JJ caA/u^00
^rduL" cnaiMläi
\
.Jooi JL.J
Ji-^a^ Jm)J° \±~z*° \L~x,±° Jo«Sm I^a^i ool
p ^^01
j^JC»
ns^oji -Joot
1.
Ms.
pl.,
repeating
Jjot
.J.-Jl3Öj,
V^j'l^o JK.^
JSl/
^*
Jla-aJLiwO
Jooi
\lo\~.).ii
-owM» J-JLoo
M
)\^
U^
^>
.]U^/ ^oa^as jbä-^Js
JU*^fß
with stop preceding.
all
And
these wqrds wliich that saint said.
all
continued giving
thanks to God. The history ofthe holy and divine men Simeon the recluse his zealous disciple
VI.
NEXT THE
SIXTIl
HISTORY,
THE HUMBLE
Ol-
the recluse is
and Sergius
ended.
THE GREAT MAN OF GOD P.U
I.
A.NGHORITE.
and humble
There was again a blessed man beloved of (loci and labörious distriet of and a perfect Nazirite, Paul the anchorite, who was from the practiyears many for This man therefore, wlien he had been Sophanene. some heard abstinenee, great and sing heavy and severe labours of asceticism of a certain high tliat liiere was a certain large cave in the side is some rock on the banks of the Tigris at a place called Surtha', which
men saying
maliguant iiends distance from the cnltivated land, but near the road, and lived
1.
in it,
so that
Sc. 'the image'.
men passed along
that road with trembling,
though
il
JOHN OF EPHESUS.
1]2
'
27
i
a.
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^V-^
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Jt-Aftoo*
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l.
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Ms. a
3
:
Jcxj
U^so
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—
corr. Nöld.
was very necessarv
J-~ ä.)o
^'^
jl*~iä.=>
cx..\ j,»lo
Jot^s,
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lct.^3
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y.\..so
Jloa^j
Jlaiö;o <.Ja>oi^.
^^
Ji-^ °°«>l
J~L -3°'
Ms. sing.
men should
pass along
But Ulis blessed man,
Because thöse
«
J*->^>
^'V>
•^ 001
^=>j? J**P°
K^o
who
it,
because
it
when he heard
led into the
the report of
pass along that road are frightened,
may
order that the powers of the eneniy
in
^ V- °^
.Jfco>c>-\
Jk^*~;
Jj^'
be expelled by the
human beings and the presence öf a human habitation, it is a duty go, and to erect the emblem of the cross there ». Th.eu tliis blessed man, like a mighty man who mocks al the feeble and
name to
2.
that
cave, reflected,
and again
-.J^ÄJO
y^l
oex
cx.^
J-o«
*^^-«/ ^»»^ä-VJ;
** ?
J.ia»o; ^ctfloo .J.s).^ o-,.'.öo .J-a-^j
fortress called Ziyat'. llial
"^
a.*.fco'K>a..^
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Jocx ^ccoa.~io oot; J.ieoo -von.^ ^^3» J_sVo; JjL^_ll
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j_,a_^,J^Xi;
[112]
sich
of
men who wish
to
vvith
fighi
him, confidently armed liimself with the
power of God and confidence in him, and directed his steps to the place. And he wen! and arrived at the cave, and near it at about half a furrow's length 2 he erected the cross; and he fetched stones, and traced the plan of a small oratory and knelt there in prayer, and passed the night in the place.
And during (fsvo?)
shapes of basilisks and fearful shapes of every kind
the night
gathered together against him 3
;
and, the tnore constancy he on
liis
side
showed, the more the gruff voiees and grievous exhalations ihcreased,
jusl
as
if
i
Marcell.
Iween
havi
serpents had arrived and were coming, and just as
greal
thi
tuUiclites. in
\l\,
11
\i,
l,,
and the
and 'Dion.' ap. Nau in Rev. de Dyakonov/p. 46, n. 110).
'/ab "
Dyaki
al of tlu
h'i
enten
,
Pigris
Or. Chr.,
- 2.
Circ.
it, >0
p. 61.
yards
It '•
their
seeras to ätres.
quoles an interesling parallel l'rom Taylor's Travels Geogr. Soc, XXXV, p. 12). But, if so, il musl have happened aller he \
I!
I
if
p.
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1
n.
236]
LIFE OF PAUL
[113]
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Jv£ JuL_aa_£;
THE ANCHORITE.
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next
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lo
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a
Jiaqio
all
that night, and
all
tlie
day,
sound of boulders being uproot-
blessed man, and they were indeed uprooted and
tlie
came
the rock above, and they came, and reached liim, and thus they
would pass by while he was kneeling at bis prayer, not having power to And so he passed seven days and nights in that place in such touch him.
And, when these demons practised many difTerent kinds of conhim in order to shake him or frighten him or drive him away, he like a mighty man girt in the true breastplate of bis Lord was not shaken, nur reckoned their wiles and their foul shapes as anything, but also
conflicts.
trivances against
after
he had, like a mighty
man who
trusts in bis Lord, after the pattern of
the holy David, chosen for himself the river of grace,
and had taken the
stall'
sound pebbles
down
p.vrn. ou.
their
—
t.
prowess and
xvii.
—
f.
1.
of prayers
from the
of the cross, and lifted the sling of
heavenly trust, then he next Iooked upön to pull
b.
U-V*-2 ^o^io;
Jt— t--*-
blessed maa's clothes in order to drive him
And
r°
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-öl
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ott-io;
jJ
»Ka
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tlie
and again another night also.
down from
^t-a-*»'
J_U^OoJU J^JSuO
Hut he was thus constant
ed just above
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breath were striking against
away.
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tlie
camp
of the Philistine tyrants,
to scatter their camp.
And
so on the eighth
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OF FPIlESUS.
JOIIX
114
^ieo
<^--»0
öpoo.9
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Ms, ^V3a>o.
I.
day he planted bis cross at ihe
saints'
midst
in the
end of
east
and
it,
ol'
that cave,
knelt
in
to
it
and hun-g np a bag pray
of
And.
prayer.
a
while he was kneeling, frequenl sounds of loud and violent howling were
suddenly heard
in
cave
ihe
itself,
they joined together would no1
mau used
the bl'essed
should have
my
and
became And thus
head
that sound.
heard
a
and
is
it
the
with
mouth I
also y<
ii
And from plav l.
in
Sc.
the door,
who would
of the
cave and
time
me (v.
I),
foul visions and
I..
.
rang from
in trust
men so
'Alack!
the cross
]
saw
vvere crying to
the
I
said
cross
and many
to
thal
has
laid at
itself,
in the
fearful
:
us us; in
they had gone outside
me from them
of
at last I
have ejected us from our place, and come
Then, when
if
llial
violence
the
on God; and
hood would not have laughed
remained settled
I
mucb
I
I
ears
saying,
dirty
and expelling you by that
my
so
God had not reaöhed me, was indeecl already dazed,
help from
remained constant
yourself.'
it
II'
and
dizzy, 1
inanv thousands of
that
mind; so that
was strengthened, and
before iclii
«
my
von with the
not you
and settled
and
outside
voice
otherwise
low;
say,
to
gone out of
such
be able to liowl so loud,
'1
not hv
outside, also
am
my own
I
rejoiced;
contending strength'.
cave, while they used to dis-
shapes stränge to the sighl
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THE ANCHORITE.
LIFE OF PAUL
[115]
i-iö/ ^CL^.
+DO
^.-.\oi
Ms. ow.
1.
of men, and thereupon they
would hold
spcecli with
me
as
men, and further
they would even take the sliapes of men, and would corac and pretend to
me
entreat
come out and go with thcm
to
to
their houses,
for the pur-
And again they would often come And llmis appeared füll of lluns'.
pose (as they said) ofvisiting their sick.
and cry to
me
'
Flee, flee.
And
and flashing.
and
Lo! the Iand
in various fearful
an excited
in
part
would say
the
coming
the dead this
lo!
State,
to
and with arrows
them,
'
This
and can
my
place.
words,
all
me or my own
kill
beforeyou; but
and not only
is
my
of Christ in bis glory, is
in
my
life
horses and with swords drawn
011
they came up to the gate crying in harbaric language,
I
take
litted to their
grave, and
my
bows.
And
I
011
place for erer.
my
Until
and the rrsurrection from the abode of
do not care; and,
and you have reeeived power lieiuls
is
shapes, riding
to kill,
if
you are
in truth
do not fear death; and,
1
me away and
will shall not be
ejeet nie
barbarians if
from this place,
your assistanl and
you are lo!
1
am
ejeet ine hence;
my death '. While I was saying these would cry and go up upon these rocks thus
but not even in
the hosts of the lluns
'Ilenceforth the cross has protected this
:
man
against us.
This
man
has eon--
JOHN ÖF EPHESUS.
Uli
—^
06. K-0Ö1 *ls1j ^=^^00
JfcüL^
.
okv'ip,
,n
»SojjJj
c^sKlilo
.s/o
,_io
iV.
3 ..
eLSjj.1/
..
HS
r
)ooi
^^-j
..OCX»
JjL-/
o
1.
erased.
init.
quered'
—
i.
I
hand.
ins. in laier
went
I
to
him
—
3.
001
me
e
:
We, im
Hut he,
»
order
in
son, should aot have
cross Ei
<
»in
in
'I
all
Satan
liave
it
and whelmed them
slill li»
in
oC^—*^> .
Jjioi
otk~o_2L*k-\
>-^a ..>*^>oK_*/ .^-iol
OlA
OOOI
^-^^010 JKjo^s
3 .\Oo6.
^pöo
)ooi
to repeat to nie,
to
liim, «
because many
llow, father, did you
who haunted
this place
expel and repress pride,
and
would say
to
overcome nor should we be victorious, see,
if
we
liave
understanding,
been expelled and hurled down by the same
me
Hui to
ai
for its
last,
to turn to the cross,
and closed their mouths,
the lowest abysses, so also from this place too these
spirits liave
strengthened ie.
t
gjld(
.•
has deprived them of the worship paid to them,
and caused their worshippers
to resoil
otlaS-i-
voow^ioäso
J-*-i/
Ui-j-so
_y-/>
only from mic small and insignificant place like this, but also
quarters, in that
malignant
J-LA-./0 ,J-3;
Ms. ^;**-"
And, as we
unless the cross had overcome. that the hösts of
/j
.Jj«
^-.1'/;
v/? >&l
carry on the conflict with the stränge powers
overcome them?
v
^xv*^^. .s/ +3
used to inquire of
I
'^l JiousQJ^.
J—a-^Jb.»»
otlo\ JJ.~^ae
These things the holy Paul used
».
when
tiines
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jJ/
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[116]
been expelled by the power of the cross, and glory
when
Ins
».
These few words he
hiniself
il
has
would repeat
fame had been spread about, many inen used
him, and he also gained about ten disciples there, while even
the sights that were ±rci\ in the place were fearful, and,
when
inen
came
him, whether to reside or to stay for a time, he would arm them before-
hand, saying
:
«
11'
so be you see anything or hear any sound wliatsoever,
Jjlo
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Ms. ^j-'w-
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the fiends
so
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corr.
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von and be silent; come out » (because often deceived men there). And again to those who camc to liim Instruction from him he would say tlie same words and he would
he not agitated, but
to receive
'
•,oilo.n»n>oo l
and, even
J
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^^jo OOI
THE ANCHORITE.
LIFE OF PAUL
[117]
if
I
mysclf
call
the sign of tho cross upon
you or anyöne
eise,
do
nol.
caution them, since
afc
night they slept inside, and he outside by the gate;
because fiends used
to
appear in bis likeness, and used to terrify the brotlier,
And so mau used to lie awake to guärd the place in which he lived, from the time when he directed bis steps to that cave, and he niade au altar and set it up in il, and he made it a chapel. And thenceforth the brotherhood and entice him out; because under the cave there was a great hole.
the blessed
used
to sleep confidently in
And
so
all
tho
men
it
;
and
bis
monastery extended
used to run
of that district
blessing, and to gain the privilege of seeing him,
words;
for
God gave
asccticism and bis labnurs and
bing
'
since he
;
was
him and converse 1.
humility
humble and
for three davs,
Or comprehend and '
so
liis
describe'.
retiring
twentv men.
and
to hear bis gcntle
gift of healing.
But bis
man c an r succeed a man were that,
in descri-
band a great
also into his
to
to receive the blessed Paul's
110
il
he would not raise
liis
face
to sit
with
(irpdcüntov)
nor
28
v
a.
JOHN OF EPHESUS.
118
o^Jju£JL.3 ^->'-o ot.SojfS
0^>aJo ^Oeä«
JJ
Jk— KJ\ oiv-J— o
jcoi ^S&sia.io
,jo .)»jL.-^.i
jcoi JJQ-V*?
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)v^3 ^*>o -.>s^*
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J-3—./
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o/
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ou*ia_
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• .
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och
-oöi ypJkffl^o U-mIä ^.otcoo"^ JootJj
^^-^
^3 °«
otla^
-A£^? ^V-^^ ^-^>^^ J^o*^ ^^ico .y&^colll oi-;oa* y.*\ JRoo^ öwo U-sa^
la^j o»_sa~
JoCSs
t-»
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oocdcvS'n r£?JviA.x-&
J_i_oja3 %
ooow
iOalx,
•>r£x*nu r^iialx ^oconnr^ rdnjfe'n \x3jLt\ rcfiuAJ^ 'caa^i Ja, n 'vi; 1.
U../ .-^ooiV^/
This eh.
is
in
B,
160 r°
f.
would men see tho emotion with
his
been inthateave been
man
buried on his
and
built,
blessed
)-2lüd;
b,
ottv^xjil «s/
B o£>"
in«?i
•=
ovW —
of his
eve,
Ii
but
for a
^.Jl^.»,'
om.
lio
would thus converse with
When
head heut and his looks fixed downwards.
had
lie
space of about twenty-five years, and a monastery had
brotherhood had reached the number of thirty men,
ilie
finished his course
1
,
God and
with his
his hiimility,
And, on accounl of
promise.
even after
liis
death miracles were
men taking
everywhere wrought through
his
going round the
wheresoever locusts came, or
districts, and,
tlic
and departed from thebody; and he was
the spot in aecordance
luve toward
2.
ool
-.JjjotaiCS. JK....J}
holy
bones,
liis
and
skull
hail or a scor-
ching wind or bubonic plague, and his righl hand or his head went, God
would straightway make deliverance. saints,
may
all
we
By
Ins prayers,
with those of
The history of Paul the blessed und holy ajichorite vii. --
\\ e I.
II
wish nexl
Tim.,
iv.
7.
all
the
sinneis have merey in the day of judgment.
next the seventh history, of the Abraham the layman, tue recluse.
to place
is
oi.ii
on record the history of the old
ended.
man
man Abraham
also.
OE ABRAHAM TUR RECLÜSE.
LIFE
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. jLi.**
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was
in
(sie).
llie
—
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v*.*.!»}
13.
—
2.
s.
who was
ins.
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called
being read, lildren
14.
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13
9.
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10.
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our
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5,
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—
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6,
doubtful
is
—
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12.
-
i=if
*-"°
B e-lL^a
U>;»-
when tlie gospel UüayyAtov) was Whoever sliall leave wife or «
day,
Lord said,
my
sake and for (he sakc of
and sixtyfold and an hundredfold
and follow me
U
^xa"^ ^..-a^,
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t>w P*>>ä3-
ins.
1!
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JJ/
manu)
(2*
man one
This
inheril eternal life
sliall
ins.
J
.JV-a-ß; oiiofcCiv
>^=*».v
3.
^
J.aja«v^Q-^
• .
consecrated', and had reached old age being abont
'tlie
beard
etc.
th irtyfold
aibo
—
ms. as original^ written).
B
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Li..,,
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1!
B Ia-6^&*Po-
sixty years old.
c
w>.J^5v
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JLJLDVA
—
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11
j-lio^
jJ
JlN.i/
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1.
7,
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1
^0^*> oöt
"'J-a'»}
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1
» ; '
and again
not worthy of nie
»
2
«
in this
preaching
sliall
reeeive
age, and in tbe future age
Whoever doth not take np liis cross man beard these words,
AN'lien this old
.
sorrow entered into bis mind, and be thought wilhin himself, and said «
Wherefore am
God's will?
now I
that
sliall
What
If it is
my
my
pleasing to
leave tbein against
bave
I
Mark,
x. 29,
God
that
I
if
1
;
do not do
should leave wife and children, even
my
will,
why
du
l
bave consumed
passed
Who will
my
life
in
l'roni it
days evilly?, and
shelter
30 (a loose citatiön).
my
not (bat wbieb God wisbes?
I
gained eitber from children or
my moments, and of tbe grave.
part alive and called a Christian,
days have been completed and tbe sentence bas reached me that
world, except tbat
1.
for
I
—
me 2.
wife, or from tlie
in vanity, lo!
I
bave oome to tbe gate
tbere in that judgmerit
Mallli.. \. 38.
whole
and idly wasted
'
or
who
will rescue
.
JOHN OF EPHESUS.
120
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me
6.
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l^a> o 01
from
•.wOLJOjSl-'.CDO
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JJ
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yoJüJ^-io
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7.
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—
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B
s.
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—
9.
.2.
Ii
sias?
in that
the day had
liut
now even
i'or
go and repent of
will
I
this
my
go
1
to
».
for
thereafter the old
monastery,
a
:
in
and then
init.
my
—
.">.
Ii
11.
B
that
life
will die,
I
of
iirst
merey
Ins
man would
think,
«
a
presenl
out of us'
So
1
having
.
I
too also
the face of
in
What
cannot work; and they will say,
I
order to get
my
make
flise
*
take the hair
time
o
—
t=«>-
<,'»
ins.
°oi
'
».
shall
I
my do?
This old man
Then
the old
everything, and went to a certain monastery and said to them,
left
weeping
Ins
And
shut the door
not
will
come upon ns
man
->^
parableofthe labourers which our Lord spake, that, even after dcelined and one hour only was left for tliose who eame,
hope that God
lias
"^3/
,„aS»'
/
remainder of
little
sins,
they were thought worthy to receive the pay with the
II'
1!
.-^.otojlao
'
my
repentance
10.
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^ ^„^_o
t oo
'»=*
B
4,
4
JIol^i wC^
+3
J.:*..^
JoCSx la.^. Kj / ojl' y/
0. I! pu»:» Jj{ .S/o hLoäAs., \;.±*e u».
remains to nie
hope
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[120]
ofmy
sins before
wish and stand
tance from
the prayer for nie, and give
secular
him,
in Ins
bu1 they
life
die
I
».
ine, since
I
me
the tonsure,
and
desire to repent for a short
But the blessed
men
did
not frustrate
way, when they heard ihe announcemenl of repen-
encouraged him and they say
are doing right, our father,
since
from
if
you are turning
in
to
him
:
«
You
repentance toward Goch;
he is merciful and will receive you ». After they had hehl much conversation with him, because thej supposed thal he intended to live with l.
Maltli., XX, 9 IC.
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tu/ o„^£o>o U^»l |ot^<
Kj/
y/o .*-^» ^.»
»
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ocn
1
y/
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v^
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,
^a,j
^_3>_s .öt.:»
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'.ow^Vl
V^r000
).i.jLi
\
^iaj
.a.1^3^ oti
1.
\ov^
_
o;-v>/-
Hut he said
:
«
2.
^o
,_~
_
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yo+s
JLxiaJS.
..^.v— /
>°*-=>
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JJ
^oL.
ins.
joot
-
4.
ß
i,
ls .
.
:
«
Hise give nie
tlie
We
remain with us or elsewhere; and ihen,
They say
».
to
him
with us, \ve will ourselves give you the tonsure, and,
:
it'
«
man said to them « came me and give nie the blessing and If
you
I
to
the old man's
own
a
man
to bring
him
would stand and
its
left
boundary
hair,
if
you remain
why
to live?
will
The
»
Service
Theblessed inen,
»
of his
and pray
made the prayer
village,
lived
;
doors, and took up his abode in
a
my
the place, and he directed Ins
man had
his little food every first
recite
me.
intention and purpose,
formerly built and roofed and in which a
and closed
I!
you that you might make the prayer for you might argue with
are willing, well; and, if not, pray for
steps to a certain oratory at the
it
w>
««H
the tonsure, not that
and gave him the tonsure, and he rose and
repaired
jlj/ O
seek to learn
elsewhere,
you be tonsured away from the place where you are going
nie.
A
blessing and lake
whetheryou intend
when they saw
Jjlsoio
jl_j/
."..
ro
After you are tonsured, where do you intend to
will live
:
so.^1
yo^Lo
^v —
I
old
.-Jx^^iOD
^o
and where God wishes to
,\Lo -.^ioi
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JiaJL-.ioL^
olj
1;
them
to
1
|i^o
"^.jJ-J
l»»
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0W-0A/
JOCÜ
.Jj/
which had been
and he went it,
in
and
after requesting
day of the weck. constantlv and
|; I66v° b.
JooiLf
001
,^_»j
^.-ViÖ/
ycy-üJU
-.ot.x-.iio
J-ioa—tv-i»
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s.i.J5^J
thom, they said to him Live? »
J
f^./ Jiotl fj
^iO
B ^üj«»i
,
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1
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121
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J^-»/°
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0/
ABRAHAM THE RECLUSE.
LIFE OF
[121]
And
so he
wecp, while
everyone was Struck with astonisliment at him, and some mockers would
A
29v'a.
JOHN OF EPHESUS.
122 •B 167 Ha.
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1.
6.
12.
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2.
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say,
•<
Coiiie let us
li
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9.
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J^i^.s
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B
)K-.;oJLo
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10.
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—
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11.
1!
^»o
go and be blessed by Abraham tbe consccrated recluse
and others, uttering words had shul
iiji
bis wife wilh
llial
would ask rcpentance
came frpm tbe
cvil one,
would say,
him, ho would be doing rightly
man despised everything and
— —
one object only befoTe
set
and healing
sins
for bis
»,
he
But the old
».
lii.s
If
«
eyes, since he
froin tbe merciful Physiciah,
ceasing from p rayer and recitation of service, either by night or by day.
And
bis service
tbe llolv Spiril
eternity
Amen
\\
as as follows
in
Ith,
And
and
the old
litli
vvbile be
bis presence;
anvoiie,
year,
Glory to
«
and Amen! Halleluyah!
and thanksgiving, appear
:
t
ho Father and to tbe Son and
Halleluyah! »; and again as follows
uighl and oftbe day in tliese
to
Jjl3öio
j.*-^**,
^»w'lo.
1!
not
J_*-a>/
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\.^co
C01T. Crom. U».o*>-
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^o,-o
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..
.
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[122J
words
»
And
gave Orders
man persevered in when he was near
none of
llial
firsl
Ins sobs,
bis
and from eternity
thus he spent the hours of
bis
lo
to
tlie
and supplication kin
(ys'w?)
should
day of the vveek he did not speak
but wepl eontiniionsl y for his sins
sound of
«
of praise willi prayer
and before the
listen to the
:
;
and so men uscd
to
and they were astonished
repentance
Ins end, liiere
for
eight years.
used to be
And
go by at
him.
in the
hail in these villages
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ABRAHAM THE REG LÜSE.
LIFE OF
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turned
I
s hall
village ».
first
day of
tlie
—
l=v
I!
ff*-
week, when sonie persons
like fire
^
—
8.
4,
B
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But the old
it.
liis
man
was
ruined.
ütterl}
terrible
:
«
not this cloud
Then
cloud took in
(ävfp)
tliat
inside
.all
tlie
come within middle of
il
that darkness; and, while
it,
it
came
had burnt up
fire
My
Lord, lias
if
il
it
all
it;
thou hast
declared of
the boundaries of as
to
and very
and
window and saw
looked out from ihe
eves toward heaven, and said
let
—
vvere presenl at
was blazing and roaring within
not perish,
ofserene air
l,.-2
l'w-
becn pleased with the sinner's repentance, and thy mercy that
3.
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11.
>J/j
|_^„^.ji ^io
oöi
Q J-«^- vpow'i'ß oow ^at-ISMo- — _ 7. L.oi&Ny aX^o f/ ov^V.-i U'i'aß-
and setth'd over the boundaries of thal village, alter the
and
a^s
time arrivcd and (hat terrible cloud had come up according
and something
all tliose
-öt
».-.s JLisoto .Ij-a.^ -ö|
JL.~ ;
.JlojV^o;
^3
lodging, they began to weep, because the cloud
liis
thick,
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me
tliis
were the likeness divided this vvay
and that, and passed by the boundaries of that village, the signal of light
remained until that cloud had passed.
And
so ihrough the
rod of chastisement, which injured not one leaf within 1
power
of the
man's prayers that village was delivered and escaped from that terrible
old
.
Sic syr.
its
*A.29v°b.
'JLuV*B167 rb.
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and they were smitten, and their crops also were
1
custom, on the
its
)
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boundaries; and,
JOHN OF EPHESUS.
124
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[124]
of that village exulted, wliile tliev themselves
made proclamation concerning tlie power of the prayers of the blessed Abraham, everyone being astonished and giving thanks to God. And the old man also rejoiced, and lic gives thanks to God who had shown hira tliat he accepted bis repentance.
from the vvorld
in
the
And,
at the
good ending
The history of the old man Abraham \ III.
-
NeXT
Tili:
end of the eighth year, he departed
of repentance. the
EIGHTH HISTORY,
layman, the OF
reclute,
is
ended.
THE BLESSED A.DDAI THE
chorepiscopus. is
Il
bv
patenl l" everyone thal sali does not itself need a conditnent, because
invn aature
ils
only,
salted
IhiI
make use
i
:i
a
condiment, and,
its all
to pul
il
nature; and accordinjjlv
other insipid
1*
Is
need
differently, not a condinient il
to
does not use
il
as a
need
itself or
condimeul
.
sketches whicb show the admirable form of the likenesses of noi
.
is
l>\
of itself, bul
Iso fair
i
il
adapted nilai
for torj
But tlie
repetition to them, nor do tliev themselves need i-
lold.
OF ADDAI THE CHOREPISGOPUS.
LIFE
[125]
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[uo|
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oolo .^3;
these, but for us ourselves of the
who
of the saints
stories
is
are
r
^.jl~
ö^
more
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J;oi
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This
blessed
'
.k-w^-ö
the condiment
then was
Addai
2 monasteryin a village called Fardaisa at tlie approach to 3 and he had fittingly Armeniaii frontier in the district called Anzetene
bhorepiscopus in a the
,
;
wielded
autliority of the chorepiscopate for a considerable tinie with all
tlie
religious conduet withont blame, visiting the poor,
and providing eburches and each
man
for
tlie
Ietus not
to devote liiinself sincerely
the false Ghrists
end of
all
to
things
liatli
'insipid ol laste'.
floose citation).
—
the
ministry without stain in the
a
these
:
.
sons, Lei us
that ;
it is
the last time, from
and again he says, 'The of the times liath
men who
read these things
And
—
1
come near'\ and again, 'The end
.
6. I I'el..
My
«
trumpet and says, 'My children, J
for tliis reason, as
and meditate upon them always, Or
liis
man were always
And from this we understand who have come in among us'
come near upon us ,T
I,
stall in
despise the expressions of the great and divine Paul
the last time.
orphans,
for tlie
clerical
monastic convents, going aboul and warning and teaching
hear from liim that he cries to us as with is
and caring
admonishing the
the widows, and
sight of men, while Ins words to every
it
00 ^° -^«^A
^a^ioo
insipid tlian food
required.
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2.
iv.
let
Sc. 'paradise'. 7.
—
7.
I
Cor.,
us conduet ourselves
— x,
3. 1
1
Syr. 'Hanzit'. (?).
—
\.
in the
Sic syr.
—
time of our 5.
I
John,
ii,
18
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.urning with fear'; because 'the day of the Lord so cometh as athief'in
the night th.it
1
J
and the dayof
.
requites
ry
come near s and
nee bas
_
mau aecording
to
,
his
'wake yourselves righteously, and
reason
vour persous and of your souls, as well as devote yourselves
brought you
to the
Service of
to his holy Order,
deeds sin
thal
4
not'
.
day ofrcquitaj
the
hand; and
at
is
Reep
bim who called you and by
and appointed you
t>>
I.ut tili— is
the will of his graciou9 merey, throngh the praise of
YVhen therefore the
such warnings and
nt in
in
rest
him
impiety of the synod of Chal 1
1
1 1
1
111.1:1
communion
in
exhaledover the whole
in his
Ion directed their Steps to
of eminence, his
metropolis
apostas\
;
to give
such earnesl care toward every man. suddenly
empire reached him, and those who had been made fervent labourers
the authorit}
lie
ofthis blessed man'- days he' had
of the heretical persecution that had been
smoke
grace
his
praise bim, because
Coming; not because ho himself needs our praise.
to live at his
.
of
ofyour bodies; and wake and
you
glory to n-
thia
for
purity
the
will cause
the
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-
OF EPHES1
IHN
requiring 7
and,
,
him
to
go
to
for
1
1
1
•
him as a chief and the
man who
held
and make concord with him, and aeeept if
ou the other hand he did not do
l
so, to be
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uklL3o .^,..~
^^aio
;a\
^_^oi vOJoi
S!
^oan
\a^Oo
oUt-oaS
:cu—3^iä\
^^
>v
oouicu^ ""^ioo
.pö/
saäjo
^o
1.
In erasure.
—
Ms.
"-'.
driven into exile he answered
willi
you, would that vve also
renegades
witli
»oij)J
a^
oCio
odaV
«^
—«o^o
3
jooi
^ÄL^a^o
yoK.^001
cld
^»-ö*
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yoa^
J.iaS.i.;
J.2L^iö
t-ö^3»
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ool»
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JJ
:
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JJ
on hearing these things rejoiced; and
tlic saint
\Vho then
«
who
pray,
(apa) is liiere,
you suppose (everyone who has sease
Now
wilh Christ?
1
w2b>
yOOt-JUi^
jüxdo
t-
.Im
1
But
(e£opiac).
^^>^
^-./
^."il l?
oi^
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points
tliem, saying
take lipon himself as (e£op(a)
o»
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Jj.toa «Hiai.;
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y.— / w.ota^ "^JtÄ.iö
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^
.^S
THE CHOREPISCOPUS.
that
Glirist
is
in
bcing driven into exile
will nol
him) exile (s;opia)
by
be banished by you rather tlian by becotoing
may
you be banished by him
».
When
who
therefore the iuen
been seilt to him heard these things from him, they went on uttering great menaces against him in grcat wrath, threatening and saving, « Prcparc yourselfto meet a fate that is in aceord with your assertion; since you shall not live here longer, unless you make concord and signify acceptance h.id
accordingto the king's order al
ll
and said
i,
:
«
If,
nie to sacrifice like the
arged
».
But he,
when he heard
these words, Iaughed
holy martyrs, would you on account of
meto obey him because he was hing, and sacrifice to man arose before them and gathered tlie inmates
liis
beware
».
and
spoke niany
And
yourselvcs that,
he took bis if
I
words stall'
will:
them, saying,
and wenl out, saying
possessed the vvhole world,
it
:
Then
»
of Ins convent bei
"
ordered
order liave
idols?
the hlessed
kogether,
who
pray, there had happened to be a king
«
every
Think
would he more
man
nol to
to
nie
\
1,.
JOHN OF EPHESUS.
128
i
a.
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jlo_i~i
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••k*»K U^J
yQ^s-oo
)k&** fc
>.,
r\r%
aJ^ -.^.Lx och; ooot ^3m ^-*^oi -*-n>^od yo^ JJ/ .oj^j ^i* v aia am i\°>'ij oo&. )ooi "°ivi >.^u^- ^*-\oi po ,öiq_cu3lAO o_.pol/; J»iaa ou^o ^a^io ,_.; ooi .yOC4^ Jl^j Ua»Ji och ^Jxj .-jk^ioVJJo LvjKj^o nmv>\ .flo
:
,
iV
)
Erased
1.
1
1
w
follows.
Lo
the true faith in Christ.
i;iii
now
that
am
I
expelled from
laboured and gathered that anyone should
he departed and
make my up
vveni
my
from
1
!
I
all this
havc not taken even bread for the day course of
youth.
life in
It is
which
heiter
have run and
1
me
for
the rast of thai district, in which notbing except great lieasts
on account of their inaccessibility
;
and he was there
supporting himself on roots, and passing the nights
and praying, and vveeping had
fallen
the
into
for the
was heard; and
man was
the inmates of Ins
for a
is
And
».
so
that are in to be l'ound
considerable time
in cavcs,
and going about
sheep of Cbrist's innocent flock, liow they
malignanl
hands of
considerable time, the blessed
2
rugged towering mountains
to the
die than
to
boast in our Lord Jesus Christ vain
And,
apostate wolves.
after
a
secn by certain men, and news of him
monastery also sought
him
for
carefully,
and the) discovered him; and he learned from them what had happened; because, after those himself had
monasterj
when
,
who
departed,
bul topk
vvere
they
conducting the persecution had seen that he
did
I.
to
trouble
themselves much
he learned these things, he continued enjoining
the poor and the orphans and the left
nol
the plunder that they could from
all
them.
Spii itual
in ofil
widows
ou1
of the
Bu1 he, on account of the ruggedness '
2.
II
l
'it..
ix, 3,
it,
and
them
remnant of the
about
left it.
to
his
And,
provide for
thai
had been
mountains and
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unboünded amount
the
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volj.);
J;ot
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joot
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J'°4
down
.^J-Vl;
N^ to
the
neighbourhood of a certain hamlet that was situated among these same mountains, and made a cell for himself, and there he used to pass the winter. But
duringwhich he had
after flveyears
lived in this
manner, busying himself
about providing for the poor, Ins monastery was brought to indigence; and, when he knew that it had been plundered more than ten times, and no longer contained provision for the
needy as before, and the Idessed
man was
grieved and distressed on account of the starving and distressed persons
whom there was no method of providing, and further the inmates of his monastery also were pressed by want, then he considered « There is no
for
longer any quarter from which
men
except that the blessed
mountains, and
it
it is
possible for nie to provide for
them, and this Suggestion pleased
number size
a
in
the
them and for the needy ». And this when they came to im he spoke to And they brought men and dug; them.
first
1.
li
year they put in about twenty thousand \ and a like and the third; and the vineyard reached a great
also in the second,
And
on the mountains.
monastery has covered
live
brethren,
will be a provision for
he did not delay to carry out; but
and there
my
should come and make a vineyard in these
or six ycars so
t
—
T.
news went out everywhere
much wine was produced
Sc. vines. PATll. OK.
Ihe
xvii.
—
f.
«
Such-and-such
he mountains with vineyards »; and hence within
I.
that they CQuld not lind vessels
.1"
r
b.
JOHN OF EPHESUS.
130
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v
c*^
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v' n ^' M<"<^ Na o^l/ ^ r <* ^^ v°c*^ loot
<^-^°
vfl-3Lia\
[130]
?°°t
.
v" a.
^O^;/ J^jj_i6
^*>
^sjo
»^jLiö
)ooi
wJLs
J-'i/j
JJ;
:)ooi sä..*:*.
^-/
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JJ
-Joch ).ioo^
JJo
«^
>^J
000t
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Jiot
M^>!
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joot
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JJ©
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y,^>o
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.)-uiiQ.ia^ vöu^suj
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001
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M
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JJ
K-^>o JLujo JJa^V
o 1.
Ms. um.
tocontain
it.
And, since the region of Cappadocia was close at hand, and to go out a.s far as Syria and buy wine, they became aware
men' used
these
to them, and from that time it became their liabit and buy; and thenceforth tbe anxieties of the companies to go Imlv Addai that had been troubling liim because he had nothing in his possession wherewith to provide for the poor were much relieved, since he
of the place that
was dose
out thither in
would send from forty and fifty denarii, and as many as came in from- that vineyard, and buy clothes and distribute them to the needy, and similarly also com and oil, and many articles; so that, excepl whal was needod for the cultivation of the vineyard itself,
twenty-five years in this occupation, territory or
vated Iml he '
would carry
ravines and
he
lefl
nothing- whatever that
upon the distressed persons.
not liberally bestov
neglect
lliis
Ins stall' the
among
And not
go
men
see
while he did
bushmss, nor did
he did
thus he completed into
the culti-
him cäsually,
winde day, and go aboul among the gullies
the trees,
and
would
kneel
and pray and weep,
taking rate thal no one should pass behind him and surprise him; and so at -time he would betake himself l.
S<
ipad
ä.
—
2.
Ms.
i'in.
to
a certain place that he
had secretly
;
LIFE OF ADDAI
[131]
v.p,--*
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.. »
t
.^\ (.tioaio L^t\^>
ltOo ^-xotd
i
t
ou>~saA yt_i>
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ota
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j-«JJ
.
y-L^a'-x^o
ch_^n
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Vi
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n°i
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sBl
131
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nto -.odo^. )ooi ^o'fcoo ov\ Joch .>V\» Vi; oöto
jjLSu/ ,
THE CHOREPISCOPUS.
ocx )oi
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J„Q_«0»
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1.
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1
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JJ
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V
:0 *T°
3
vxa.sl
cx.-*-%
V1^ -.jooi
^
t^CD
soLLoo
Ms. o w-
made, and the man who attended him would meet him, and inform him case anyone had
snow and
come out
frost, in
who came
so that in fact on one and the blessed man, and
and
I
knew
at eventide
And
in
thus he would do even in
order that he might not be seen by men; but he had given
Orders that everyone
because
to look for him.
1
should be received and refreshed and go
two oecasions
went up
I
to these
did not see him with his consent.
the hour of his arrival,
we betook
I
mountains to see
But on one occasion,
took one of the brethren with nie,
was
ourselves to that place; and, as there
a thicket
many trees there, I said to the brother who was with me « Let us sit down among these trees, and lie in wait for the old man since perhaps he And, while we will come and we shall catch him, and obtain his Messing ».
of
:
;
on our part were sitting down, of his breath as he
him
lo!
there comes the sound of his feet and
was coming down from
in the distance,
we
us and turn back;as in fact happened. half a
of our
See
When
presence
reached him, as
when we saw
the more, lest he should see
he had approached to about
if
the sight of us nor the
he scented
the
smell of
checked himself and halted, waiting a long time, while we on our
side did not stand 1.
all
furrow's length' from us, though neither
perception us, he
the mountain; and,
kept ourselves hidden
p. 112, n. 2.
up and were not seen by him; and,
as
if
he had become
31 \" b.
JOHN OF EPHESUS.
132
J^s lij.,,
i
* 32 r° a.
o, .;
ool
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JjLSj
jK-SO
Joöt/
v
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JJ\o
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o JotSs;
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^_jl3o
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oi.MoVi; oöt
jlo
jl
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\yr
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t-=i^';
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J^S
J
->m\
Jooi K-./
J
nm°
.^oiolSs-./
)
*. » .. o
>;
Jjoi^t
:
Corr. from l'^i <^>w
l.
aware of us
in bis
old
man was
And,
he thereupon like a wild beast turned aside, and
spirit,
so down the mountain-side
set Ins face to
running,
cried out
I
:
«
When
at a run.
saw
I
Forgive us, father, and pray
that for
we wcnt
and passed the night,
in
».
we did not pursue after him and so and we did not obtain a sight of the saint.
order not to vex and annoy him,
in
tlie
us
;
my mind was ardently bent on running and labougood and precious merchandise of the old man's blessing at all
Bul again, inasmuch as ring aller the costs,
cven so
my
direcled
I
two nionths,
as inuch as
bondman
blessed bv the
And
was not
I
of
will not depart
God
because
some distance
liiere
was
stood and prayed, and
hands
to
If
«
olf,
am
I
from these mountains until
we saw
the old
man
me
and
i
in
;
3i
" p.
be
note
"ii
P.
:
.
h
a
he should
And, because intense noonday heat prevailed, he riexl
he knell
down, and he stood up and stretchcd out
heaven, expanding himself
ipp
am
to peak,
in
the form
of a cross;
and be
continued for a long time until about the ninth hour', and then he sat l.
I
passing over
lest
I
here
this gift.
and Coming down from peak
gap betwcen; and we kept ourselves close
a
and run away.
see us
also after a time again
entreating our Lord to grant
»,
noontide in the middlo of the day
a1
certain clear space
liis
reniiss in the matter, but
steps to these mountains, liaving determined,
M., bul in
olher places the hours seeno
lo
be reckoned from
down midnighl
.
J^
OF ADDAI THE CHOREPISCOPUS.
LIFE
[133]
)>-«
^o
V--j
p
,_*»
^jlioo J^*.
*
.«jlj/
^o ,^>
~M^ J)ouo Jla^j
^j^q.. °>>o ^»> ,_jl~ .jjo^
J^ojKj
JJ;
vO-^jU/o kb.
j;oi
^C^9J* JSj/
L^' 001
1.
L,
)
J^
va>j
Jjl*>;
..^o—
jJ;
jio^o .-Öv-M
Ms. -w^v-.
—
Ms.
^-
—
M
Jt-t-^
JU^so
7-/
NSs^ 3
Jtooo^ ^-» ^»/
But we, whcn
to rest for a short time.
J^; K"/
^»
^o;
oKj»
saw
\ve
a certain deep gully, and
that he
weht
man
he saw us he was thunder Struck, as a
had looked
is
this
was no escape, he stood up and received stood and asked, saying,
mountain?
this
»
We
«
«
sit
Go
to the
And,
after
us, to
W©
^Jp? .^
V*^ ol
:
Why,
«
<>ur
1.
ears, even
Or take f= a - as a
2
^-XiO
vfco^oxia_3
we
sat
down
to rest,
arrived opposite
But when
way and that and seen that there And he us, and made a prayer. hither, blessed
sit
down
men, on
for a little time;
he might not be involved
beings; but he continued saying to us,
in
lo
!
I
will
myself come
at
once
own
if
our
title,
and render
»
sentences, he continued urging this upon
order
(as
But
he professed) to rest, which was I, inasmuch as I divined bis pur-
our father, do you run away from us? Sit
and speak, and console us with in
001
*^°
Ul
"vo-s/ ..
'
in order that
only that he might escape froni us.
him
>
down,
monastery and rest there, and
pose, said to
••^* *
human
we had begun many
go to the monastery,
P
-.V^ö/
frightened by the sudden sight
Whence have you come
long conversation with
a
in
\*±.
jjoi» loa-iJJ
!«•
^»/
had
011 until
continued entreatinghim to
but he did not consent to
^o
-.oi\ ^.ooi
came down by the blessed man; and thus we suddenly came up and caught him. of somelion; and, after he
-.«ol
&L
Ms.
3.
^
^s
JKSjk>
j
Jjs-/
-JLa
.JM
JS^aKj»'/?
.JjuAoS
2.
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ooi
J4^» P° -J*~*> .wwwuIKj; ^s ooi y\
l\2b\
.oi^
J^j ^ojjo
-.J^'o3 K-X;
^.j
p©|
Joo.
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Jlj^~
°«^ )T-»f>^ Jj»o£k voK-l/ jJ
.^*^>9 J-»-^!
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J-i/;
^-Jl-V^
;o~^>j
Jjlo-/
^eyio
^Jjuso^CLfl
.^
?
J-*^* ^>»
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^-/ .ok-J; >m. a^l/
,-iö
ooi -.^^icu;
^"v^
yin\m
.^o<,.O^No
133
ryour
soil is 'the
words
down
words andsow good seed ungrateful, and harren and unculti-
aifectionate
of
your affection'.
'
—
,
2.
Ms. um.
* 32 r» b.
.
JOHN OF EPHESUS.
134
)'l/o -.ct.. .ill/o
,L
*32Va.
)
*
,ot '"'Si^OO;
-.tv
">
»
yOJL^ a^j .^o^
OWU2.
»1/
yaaju-s, yaS^xjo -.yom»
K^sjo .w)^jk_JL_j5j
Uli;
JJ
j;ot
)».-
j.^-JL^O ..J-SVQ^J
"^-ü
„J-*>;
Jjot
^-^C* Li-
But he looked
».
^a -.^JL-*
^-; »K-3 .J^ojSs
Jjls;
vated
..„_s/
at
JV-^-s^?
^.»
^-2ö y**\
^V-3 U^ao
«^J—
me, and said
:
!
P»la-
j-^01>
«
Jj/
^oo-oj
.^JL^iÖiOO
> i
aV, •ou-^j
.«^o.
^o r^J-^s^ h
J-JOt-3
Do we then
^»-CO.^
-.vJLiO— O
(<xpa),
pray, seek
another greater than Jesus to speak with us or tu admonish us? and,
do not obey him,
obey
liim?
if
Now go
1
man
a
and
rise
rest,
from
and
I
tlie
dead and speak,
will come,
^^.
j^oti
Sjj
jk~.;ok~\o yJ-a-aS. ^-;
joiSs;
^V»
^_iO
^xi-^^j ^iajo
^q^.*j J<*^> .yo^
ool
,Jj-sa^Oi.
.oub,
Jjiot
k-.OOt <*,!.»
ou^<
->».a
[134]
and
how
if
shall
\ve will talk ».
we we
But
I
knew his purpose reflected that on account of the blessed inasmuch man's pleasure we had Leen afraid of annoying him; and so we feil down before him and entreated him to bless us and to endow us with his holy « Do you pray for But he when he dismissed us said to us prayers. as
I
:
me
As
the ungrateful.
tion of
your
will,
your will his
see the blessed
giving to
that
will.
God
man
for
yourselves your earnestness signifies the direc-
God may mingle his will with your will, and make And thus we parted, and we did not for me ».
Pray
again; but sufficient for our consolation and for thanks-
to be ever rendered
we were not deprived
by us was
thts
one occasion on which
of the heuefit of the sight of this divine
man. After a
period of twenty-five years, wliile spending his time in this way, he ended this life l'l
of troubles,
ice of
1.
and departed
to the resl of his Lord,
having committed the
provision for the needy to the inmates of his convent, and enjoined
Luke, xvi,
31.
^.oto^j
1
.Joot
^3.V.^6o
•
t
^>-
»\ n a
vjoo»,
^
K-/j ^Ot^o
asa^iabs Lo ',;
them
make
to
^aa
^Jo .^x^cl^
jooi
ojl-/Äoo (lav^M
2.
l
j^a«A
pa^*
jJ
ooi. JjL^-fiO ^.-^01
t^°
O
«-*
>
..jj.-^ omläj
..K^olo
Jooi
—
.v-jla
^ia^
v^*
*-»
-.IJS-*. ,_io
Jk^J.
(.ooio
JJLXio
.^a.x^j
provision from
during Ins
for the needy, as
it
life,
for ever
ended.
is
2 Next the ninth history, of the blessed Mare' of Beth Urtaye
This blessed Mare was a clergyman
man
then,
32 v" b.
Ms. appy. »koso.
large village in the district
This
-^^r00
\\^j
^i.o
The history of the blessed Addai the chorepiseopus IX.
.^(.joh
|KM aiM ^io ^-^o ."^fl0
»KJ^io
t—*- 3
«
L.35
J^'t-oKio»
^°
och
—
Ms. ".woI^N.
.joot
*
Jfv-».^
.jJoot
Jjoi
xf-i-^i
jln a
.J-wjLio jJo jpa..« jJo
1.
^s ^«,301
^oo ^,; )ooi J-.K-,
.oil^^iK^ ^-^j
Jooi
•
MARE OF BETH URTAYE.
LIFE OF
[135]
when he
of
Avas a
member
the church of a certain
(xV/iputö?) in
Anzetene
.
called the village of Hula (uäu?).
3
of theclergy
(xÄvipo?),
used to behave
with great and measureless arrogance, and he -was haughty and a good Speaker and teacher, and very well-informed on every subject.
having
And, grace
time arisen in his mind, suddenly he began to form the
at a certain
plan of taking lipon him the yoke of monasticism; and he disposed of and distributed all that he had among the needy and he withdrew to a certain mountainous spot about three miles from the village; and he bound himself never to taste bread or wine or oil, or cheese or fish, or anything whatever ;
except
and
pulse
herbs
and
water;
and
thus
he
exercised
himself
severely. i.
See
p. 187, n.
with Anzelene;
et.
1.
—
eh. 58
2. (f.
Gl',
131,
eh. 31
va).
and
—
3.
58.
Syr.
Beth Urtaye seems '
Hanzit'.
it
be almost,
if
nut quite, identical
JOHN OF EPHESUS.
l36
f^i/o
..^|JL/o JL3U-.1/0
o^ )oot
•
0001
vhjä
^»7?
.omlSjl-3
=*
>9t^°
)ooi
JiiV^^oo Jlou^ol
y_/;
4
J.^
.-'j-^OjVj
>
JW? ^
°*>
n
-
<
^^
Jv-.?
::,
3 .ogaiÄ »jLal/o k*aU'{ jJo
v**
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Uao°/
ooc*
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VJ"*? ^
t
3
I.
w-jj.Ka/
Ms. bt-o» USo»V.
—
2.
J^-a^
-.«aJi
»a
)J
Ms.
.o,w-
—
3.
«^.iOO ..^G^JLO
tlie
stir
J1o;ouojs
to restrain
up against the blessed
man
ill-treated,
\.
^
men
l'rom
weeks and as much as as long as he
would leave ni.iii
a
and he did not give
until
liim
in
their
way and
liis
lifo
And
his
fortitude in
God.
many
\i'ars
a
and so
Ins
(xocvwv)
week and two mind that everi
wonld not
taste at all
so they by Satan's machination
came lefl
l'rom the
«
This
in bis soul that
renegades.
him, not being able
he built
And to
thus
weaken
an admirable, substantial, large
excellent details of construction
craftsman with intelleetual
and twelve
actiöns, did
While he was occupied with such severe asceticism,
and moreover with persecution, monastery, with
good
was approaching dissolution, saying,
the end he tasted nothing thal
"°
.^^o»
-ö»
^*?
But the valiant man was so determined
they were continually defeated in him and
<
JoOt -OloN»./
allow Ins rule
in
the habit of eating he
power.
f>
and he was arrested and
month; and he determined
was
was under
defeats us ».
downto
lic
V
of persecution;
to be relaxed, while the adversaries kcpt liim in prison
Ihc very food that
'
0001
'
Ms. sing.
tlie trial
assaults of persecutions often attacked liim,
imprisoned and
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J-L..SO
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—
Ms. with points.-
Then Satan again, who wishes not neglect to
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skil]
in all
crafts.
were completed by him
in
And
;
since he
was
also a
he built and finished
such labours.
it,
Then he departed
from the body, bearing good testimony, uothing whatever having beenfound
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1.
TUE BISHOP.
LIFE OF S1MEON
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weaken him,
make him remit what he
or to
liad originally
undertaken,
not sicknesses nor persecutions, nor any other distresses.
The history of the blessed Man-
is
ended.
NeXT THE TENTH HISTORY, OF TUE BIUVE WARRIOR ON BEHALF OF THE
X.
TRUE FAITH,
When bishop,
I
I
Mar SlMEON THE
BISHOP, THE PeRSIAN DEBATER.
approach the task of relating
do not do this
in simplicity
tlie
history of this holy Simeon tho
and without
fear;
because his character
does not sliine out in one beauty of righteousness only, that one might pre-
sume
to depict his virtue as one portrait, but in
many
beauties, the objects
and inexpressible amazeraent, be they labours of righteousness, or humility exceeding the Standard of those who live in these times, or zeal on
of great
Christ's behalf, or
tlie
war which
all
his life until death he earried
on against
the fraudulent disciples of the school of Nestorius, or agaiu his labour in
all
r
b.
JOHN OF EPHESUS.
138
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would not have Leen improper
holy Paul and say
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•
hui also in
:
«
JLsnnmoä/ o>jjj>o
all
countries
only the territories of
when God saw
to go,
have toiled more than
I
and orderet! him
in
froin
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forwhom,
to speak with boldness
had travelled not only
also, that he
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countries in which the preaching of Christ had travelled; it
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(ita.ppYXJia)
I
tliink,
like the
to say l'urther tliis
Jerusalem and as
far as Illyricum
2 ,
which the preaching of Christ had travelled, except -
Rome; and
thither also he
his venerable character
to liuish his
and
was ready and had his old
started
age and bis labour,
course in the royal citv of Constantinople.
This holy Sirneon then eveu before the period of his episcopaey, besides the fervent
and enthusiasm
zeal
for
the
true
l'aith
unto death which he
possessrd, was deeply verseil in the Scriptures, and he was also ardent in practising debate, beyond (in
my
fathers; because besides the gift of iL
because he was also
a
Persian,
opinion) any other man, even the ancient
God
this other fact tod
and he lived
in Persia,
summoned him and
it
is
to
in that
country especially that the teaching of the school of Theodore and Nestorius is
very
wide-spread,
fevv there, l.
1
l
so
(hat
believing
bishops
and
theit
dioceses
are
and further besides this teaching that of the school of Mani and 10.
-
-'.
Rom., xv,
19.
»
LIFE OF SIMEON
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and Bar Daisan also
had from
much
nated there, and Mani travelled
been much dissemi-
cause
this
same country, and there also they flayed him alive, and he died there; and Bar Daisan and Marcion because there was once a school (aypkn) of Persians at Edessa, and the Persians are in general keen inquirers, they were trained in the tenets of Bar Daisan and of Marcion and became immersed in them; and they there in the
1
,
down and planted it in who was once ruler there (of
carried this evil plant
that country;
the blasphemer
the church of Edessa)
blasphemed
like Nestorius,
not only
but even surpassed him in wickedness.
When
was spreading
Cyrus discovered school the
(cyoX/i)
case before
even 8 .
1.
A. S.
in
and tore
in
2 ;
and
this
from which
school all
the
(cyc/Xv)');
city of
out from
it
of the Persians to
city of Nisibis,
it
it,
its
that country
Edessa,
roots,
be mentioned
was from
because this
the
holy bishop
and did not allow the
tliere
again, as
that time
had been
established
in
the
drink dregs- of gall, so that
some inen
nur country, the country of the Romans,
Ulis
made
man
himself a promoter of that same school
this bitter plant
even as Hiba
taste of
Against these therefore the blessed Simeon was always strongly armed The sentence foo).
look this.
—
3.
is lel't
Cf.
unfinished, and the sense completod in another way.
Simeon's own account
in
Assem., B.
0.,
i,
p. 350-354,
—
2.
489(CA/'on. Edess.,
from which John probablj
* 33
V
b.
»
JOHN OF EPHESUS.
140
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;
and ceaselessly contending; and wherever he came victory was given him
by God, and he was made a closer
which
in
if
in
it,
he were five or ten days' journey
if
God had made him ready and
as
one
saying,
district,
«
I
must not
Ghrist's sheep are being scattered
who
will not spare to destroy
reason
camp 3
was sedulous
lie
of the
that he gained
who were
in
large
1.
Iti
Sic syr.
-iplion.
and
them and tear them
Saracens of the tribe of ;t
still
rest,
when
number
in pieces
Nu 'man, which he
of Saracens in
it,
2
».
•
2
Acts, xx,
2'J.
—
J.
kriow that
I
And
Syr.
'
to the
for tliis
far
as the
often visitcd; so
and he induced the magnates
converted by his words to build a Christian church
down
sit still
destruetive wolves,
going out among the countries, as
again he would depart and go
(
sit
among ravening and
in
And
it.
4 very gate of the kingdom
Hirtha' (d Nu'man)
the
from
greatness of bis zeal and the fervour of his will he did not rest and in
away,
(pavcicüv)
earth had vomited him up,
the
if
and he present there', since
spring up
suddenly
vvould
he
to all heretics (cdpesiöTai),
debate was being originated by the Nestorians against the belie-
who were
vers as
a
mouth
chiefs or doctors dreaded to open their mouth and speak in a vvhich Ins presence had been reported; because in a district in
nulil their district
of the
=
Arab. 'AI Hira'; seo p.145.
,
—
and 4.
Sc.
LIFE OF SIMEON
[141]
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stop l'ollows.
—
would turn many
2.
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God not only among
the heretics
(aipeirtwTai),
but also
among theMagians; so that he once even converted three great and distinguished men among the Magians and baptized them. And, when their companions heard that they had turned away from Magism and beconie Christians, they informed the king about them; and they received an order that, if they
had really turned away and would not deny Christianity, they
should die.
But those men,
who showed
themselves worthy of a crown of
life,
when
they saw the threat and the king's sword, were not afraid nor dismayed,
while the blessed
man
also
armed them with the enthusiasm
for the sake of eternal life,
had gone out against them; and they say, living
who
God who made heaven and
called us
earth,
«
and
Far be his
him again and worship instead of ten days after their spiritual birth
make
it
disciples
and convert.
from us to deny the
tlial
But this blessed man
the countries without ceasing, and to
And
Christ,
we should deny him the things that he created ». Then tliese blessed men departed to God by the
quick death of the sword, bearing good testimony.
among
martyrdom
Son the Lord Jesus
and brought us near to him by his grace,
continued to go out
of
and they resisted the order and the sword that
warn and
accordingly his fame went out over the
whole land, and not only that of the Persians hui that of the Romans also;
'tu
b.
JOHN OF EPHESUS.
142
J^ioooiV;
j-s r> n •
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,^ol;
i
n
KjL.po^ odoj^o ^j Jod ^,fcoo
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In erasure.
—
2.
and he extended
*
.jK^iY- jl^-u^j
JL
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L^
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1.
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J-LiaSoi.iO}
k^=>J )U)_3,
|jt.Vio ooto .c*aSs ^.-^o»
Ms. cnlü».
his travels to the royal city of the
Romans
time
for the first
For a reason like this.
On
one occasion the Nestorian bishops of the chief
and gave Information tliat
in
country, saying,
to «
the hing
f
cities
the Persians about the
These men are
traitors
to
met
too-ether
believers
your majesty, as
in
it is
your power to learn, sinee
their faith also and their rites agree with and the Magian believed them, and he ordered a persecution against the orthodox (öpOo'^oi) in the whole of his kingdom. I'.ul the blessed Simeon in the fervour of his zeal formed the plan of going up and informing the believing Anastasius, king of the Romans, of these
those of the
Romans
things, that he
»;
might do
this favour to the
country of the Persians, saying,
«
Who
will
forusifldo not do these things? and peace for the believers
in the
church of the believers in the
be able
to
intercede with the king
that believing king will ask of
country of Persia
».
him Then he quickly ärrived
before king Anastasius, and informed him of these things. .
notdelay there
to
because he was a believer carry out his
arid
a friend of
request which he asked of
And
this
the believers,
Goddid
him; and, because
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This he must be sup-
it.
another', and royal presents and gifts, king Anastasius then wrote earnestly « You will do well ifyouorder that peace shall reign to the Persian, saying :
in
your empire
us,
if
in
your days
;
and
in this
matter you will gratify and please
your order keeps the Christian peoples
when you
in
your empire unmolested,
order that they shall not härm one another by reason of occasions
of enmity, nor
any of your people molest them
are in the king's letter together with others
».
These words then that
we have
found that the holy
2 (iuov) of them Simeon himself asked from hini, belieof the request presented the he down, came envoy the when And, ving Anastasius to the king; and he consented and gave Orders that none of the Christians should hurt his neighbour; and thenceforth the machina-
and he gave bim a copy
tions of the heretics
were rendered of no
effect,
.
and the pafty of the believers
enjoyed freedom (irapp/ici*). And the blessed Simeon was more incited the heretics, and was warmed with zeal for debating against their
against leaders
1. Hypatius was sent on an embassy to Persia in 517 (P. 0., vn, p. 661); buf an earlier occasion seems tobe here meant, for the 7 years' imprisonment (p. 153) must have begun some years later, and S. afterwards travelled for 7 years and returned in 531 (p. 156), and he was eertainly at liberty
in
Moreover, if the narrative is in chronological order, <)., i, p. 364; 'Zach. Rh.', viii. 3 Constantinople preceded the dispute with the Nestorians, which was between i'J9 and —2. This was perh. among the documents which came intothe author's possession (p. 158),
524(Assem., B.
.
this mis'sion to
504 (p.147).
and,
if
so,
he no doubt quotes from
it.
34
V
b.
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shame, so that on no single occasion was he defeated bv them
to
And
therefore,
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«
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these men.
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to
hear about him used
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145).
used
in
Ibis
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to
threaten him; and for this reason
sense;
see p. 39,
storj
told of
is
n.
James
2.
—
-J.
(eh. 49).
Lit.
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bis
own person
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beard like that of a layman; because in the
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much
and
as they can;
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it
for this
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city,
liim as a
reason no one
to teil us, (V.V/]pwoi)
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that he
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».
heard that that Simeon the debater is?
on the point of entering a certain
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knew
were someone who was very well acquainted with him.
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and they asked
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him
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them; and, that they might not know that he was the man, he on
said
man
:
«
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same men
for those
»,
one of ours, and he has heard him crying out against us, and
is
reason he cries
'Woe
for
him'
»;
his part
and passed on, hearing them say,
«
This
for this
and thus he passed on and went away,
while they asked him about himself, and they did not recognise him; and so the Nestorians dreaded
him everywhere.
to visit the believers in
Hirthad
Once again he
Nu 'man; and
set out
and went
the great catholicus of Arzuu
',
having sent and learned that he had goue to Hirtha, sent to fhe believing
1.
Arzanene.
Seleucia,
is
From
i>.
147,
I.
16,
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the uuly
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the
bishop of
meanl.
PATR. OR.
—
T. XVII.
—
F. 1.
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35
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b.
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».
And
wiile to him saying,
«
:
«
Assemble together, and come
the bishops on hearing
^'ail for ns
»
;
knew
but ho
let
us debate
were alarmed; and they
it
that they desired to send
about the blessed Simeon, and he continued pressing them more, tliinking, «
we
Lest they send and inform him and he come, and again
to
speak a word
sciil
».
And, when he
alter him.
tnares
2 ,
But they on their part wrote a lieard
it,
man who had
and gave thanks
to
supposed that he was
blessed Simeon says to the believing bishops, as
tili;
1.
Sic
and
in
to the
was
in tlie
Saracen territory.
The
who were
hve
:
«
Lo!, as soon
Nestorians see me, they will be amazed; and, becausc they will not
know wliat to man tu join in to
',
And, when they saw him, they
God; and they rose and went
written to them, while he liad no notion that Simeon
laml ofthe Persians, but
not be able
he rose promptly and took two Arab
and quickly arrived among them.
rejoiced greatly,
sliall
and horsemen
letter
them s..r.
—
:
•>.
say, they will end by saying this,
the discussion with us, since he
'If
is
'
We
will not permit this
a disturber'.
you are not willing that allof us should join
Or 'riding-animals', pcrhaps dromedaries
(P. -Smith.
?.
v.
But do you
in the discuss-
t^asii.
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OOCLA;
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Then
at
men were astounded and disturbed; and To deoline the debate they were also caught and did not know what to do. wonld bring ridicule upon them, since it was they who had originated the the sight of
debate
;
tlie
blessed Simeon these
and again to speak and be defeated would bring disgrace upon them.
The blessed Simeon again says
to
we need umpires and an audience fall
into
speak a
them
« lf
:
you desire
to debate with us,
to hear the discussion betweeti us, lest
wc
But let us in the presence of an upright audience empty talk. They say to him « lf few words that will refute and be rcfuted ». :
you want an audience, we on our side He on bis side says to them here ». the marzban's decision
argueabout the
faith;
sation, that even
».
Then
all
will ask the king's :
«
Neither will
we
marzban
who
together were going to a Magian tu
even as this too was brought about by divine dispen-
through the heathen the true mystery of the right
might be proclaimed.
is
refuse to accept
And, when they had taken
their seats opposite
faitli
one
another and begun to discuss, the great catholicus, whose name was Babai ', « My lord, we inform inasmuch as he took precedence over all, first said :
vour high excellency that these 1.
499-504.
men
are the king's enemies, and their faith
3.")
v" b.
;
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148
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But
».
mouth on
this
wretched
catholicus,
hecause he
knew
the subject of the faith he -would be pnt to
make accusation, nol knowing that God would put him to lic did not know what to do, Iiad recourse to accusation.
to
shame; and, because
Uni ihal governor as ei
These are our
things are so,
you
we
yours.
will attend to
toward
have
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if
affairs, not
one
If
God answered him, saying:
\ve learn that as a matter of fact these
You on account
thcm. say
things
these
nur pari will nol receive these Statements from you ol
thanks was offered
ment liave
is
jusl
to the
and uprighl
anything eise
».
to say,
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us; but we for Then an cxprcssion Magian by the believers, who said, « Yourjudglf you The governor says to the catholicus
another
to
».
:
aboul your faith, say im
».
«
Babai the catholicus
Vly lord, as to our faith we have to speak about a certain who was born from a woman as we were, and upon whom the Word 3 of God came down on account of his uprightness and his righteousness
says to him
man
like
'
:
us,
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the
1
king of kings might Lheologian, d
writi
Lhe '
find
a
beggar's son in a dungheap
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llie
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into Iheir
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ascribed
'credal Judaeus'.
to
Simeon; bul -.
As
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son
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man
liim
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everyone
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king's eyes, he also conferred lipon liim the honour of being called Ins son,
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liis
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name
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man
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whom
the contention between us
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\\ e The governor says « What do you say? » Siincon says know thatyour wisdom will not go astray. Therel'ore we entreat you by the great God (may he prolong your days) out of all the statements which the He catholicus has made to investigate two, and examine and judge fairly ». says to liim « Teil me which ». He says to him « Since the catholicus stated in the presence of your highness that au ordinary man like us was
an end.
:
:
:
:
born of a woman. are born of a
man who 1.
See
let
your wisdom put
this question to him.
woman
from the seed of
a
he told you was born of a
p. 39, n.
»
ü.
man, inquire'
woman
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frorn
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was he from
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did not
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like us.
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for
man was born without man whom you aecuse you have yourself
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in the case of this
liaud testified that he not
an ordinarv
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believers
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lord, let
presence of your wisdom, and says to him,
the other
like us;
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And,
seed. 011
them confess one more point
us dispense with lengtliv speech
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heap and clothes him
in royal raiment,
and therefore by grace everyone
calls
'
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was he born?
Inquire
'
2
from him
who
is
the father of the
Has he a natural father? and
he speaks.
presence whence he was born and
who
if
not let
his father is ».
man
also of
him show
When
whom
in
your
the cathohcus
of bis received the questions put by the marzban, with the whole assembly utter a not could and heads, their bung and lips bishops, they closed their of word; and when the judge sharply insisted on their declaring the father and God from him of whom they were speak, they confessed that he was born
without copulation.
The governor says
:
«
Therefore
if
God was
his father his son also is
and he came from the seed of But by the copulation like us, he himself also was a man as you said before. and yourself; condemned words that you have spoken you have refuted and and position, logical sound men who are fewer than you hold the true and beheving the Then ». testimony own the thing is as they say by your
God.
1.
And,
if
Or 'proper
again a
character'.
man was
—
2.
See
bis father
p. 39, n. 2.
36 v" b.
JOHN OF EPHESUS.
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multiply your great-
so they separated, the
come out
for a place called
victo-
Beth
of metropolitan bishop of Betli
in the interior countries
beyond the
men from paganism and Magism, and strenuously meet those who held
same country,
same contests; and these were again of the most eminent
And some moreover
cruel aecusations against
him and
all
the
believers as
Then he issued an order that all the belieshould be arrested, and all the chief archimandrites, and
well before the IVrsian king.
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disciples, and convert
inllamed with lialrcd against him. thein
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saying,
God
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and inadc bim bisbop
the impious doctrine of Nestorius in the
among
)v-^.u-s
because they often pressed bim to accept Ordination to
and thereforward he bore the
Persians and
nm «.3f»
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the episcopate, and he would not consent; mit, after he had
1
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Nestorians having been put to shame.
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saint's episcopate;
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committed to prisoh in bitter
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conhnement
and thus they were arrested and imprisoned
at Nisibis;
(as is the
cnstom of the Persians who imprison without
mercy) for seven years, being subjected to great distress and severe
mouth
(iywv), so that the
then,
after their
knocking
own
is
too small for ns to describe that distress.
had wasted away, and they were
lives
at the gate of death,
all
trial
And
already
from the distress and also froni the length of
was written to the king of Aethiopia; and, made this request though bis ambassadors of the Persian king, and he released them from that distress. But after a time ninch accusation was again made against them before the king by the Nestorian bishops, who said « Our people hold the faith among all Christians and in all kingdoms ». When the blessed Simeon leamed these things, he came to the king's court, and strenuously contended in the refutation of this
time, an account of these things
sincc he also
was
a believer, he
:
falsehuod.
But the Magians, being mucli worried by them, since they did
know how to judge and decide between them, issued an order in these terms « Whoever of you wishes it, permission is given to him to go out not
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and their
among
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among you speaks well and shows great corwhen he heard these words,
and from
rejoiced with great joy;
to
J,.~:*>
earnest blessed man,
tliis
bis face to the task, the labour of
kingdoms
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2.
and authorities, and bring us
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and go round among the kings of the Christian peoples, and chief bishops
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tlie
ardour of his zeal, since he had
tlius set
going' from peoples to peoples, and l'rom
kingdoms was not reckoned by him
as
anything
at
all,
but he
undertook this with joy as something light and easy and of no moment
Ami he
set out at
once without delay
in his zeal, in
2 .
order to traverse the
and the kingdoms, not being hindered or frightened
frontiers of the peoples
by fear of anything, not of the great length of the intervening space, nor the
dangerous character of the countries on account of robbers, nor the
crossings of the ii\ois, nor the long distances to be covered, and,
greater than
all,
on God and the ardour
I.
sians
Ms. um.
—
2.
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tl
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is
upon the rians,
ihoj dtftered
the
made
light of everything,
and
lournej ran
bardly have been as here slated, slrice Ihe Perand knew well that the Xr-tnnans differed from the and therefore favoured them. Moreover it was to the interest of the Nesto-
Ihe king to
1
of his burningzeal, he
The reason
would have no objecl ol
what
not even the binden of his old age; but thus, in confidence
in
for
making Ihe
difference
inquirj
not to deny
encourage the Mi
adding
thal
it; cf.
p. 142, 147.
Barh.
(1. c.
says that S. obtained
physites to hold their Services freelj and to defend them
he reeeived cerliOcates from Greeks, Armenians, and Syrlans,
from the Nestorians.
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set out
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set l'oot,
which the preaching of Christ had
in all countries in
eastern and nortliern and southern, wherever there were peoples
and kingdoms to
whom
as far as the royal city,
came up\
the preaching of the gospel (euocyyAwv) had penetrated,
and the north and the sonth
in the east
fore,
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LIFE
[155]
wliile
who does
and he ended
we were not
;
hut toward the west he came only
his course there, the third time that he
The good and
present there.
fail to
reward zeal
for his
merciful
God
there-
name, on seeing the man's
purpose of mind and his zeal, and that he underwent weariness no less than that of the apostles without shrinking, himself also
no less dcgree than upon them his
speaking with
new tongues.
gift that
hestowed lipon him
was given
to the apostles,
who had
sition in the
chancel
visited him.
(ßvjjjia)
in the
And
own
tongue,
so also he even delivered an expo-
churches of
all
the peoples to
whom
went; and on this account he would declare and say to us with tears, this
matter
I
1.
«
he In
recognised clearly that God had visited nie and strengt hened
me, and that he had not withheld his grace and his mercy from The second occasion
that recorded
of
For, whatever people's country he entered,
on the third day that came he would speak with them in their
thanking God
in
below
(p. 157,
is 1.
nut mentioned, unless two Visits are herc 6).
i
ilended,
me the
».
third
But being
I).
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capable of going
rolls are
long and protracted journeys throngh the conntries
of
withoul being torn to picces?
»
And
for tliis reason,
and
order that the
in
certainty of the writing might remain without suspicion of alteration, he
made
great lincn cloths and medicated them, so that they might take writing,
which also
will,
1
think, be preserved
by the believers
in
the land of the
Persians for ever; and on fliom he would aceordingly write the belief of every
people
own language from
in their
and of their chief men
their archbishops,
and above the
beliel he
king of that people and of the bishops of the same
affixed the seals of the
and thus confirmed it, acting going about llnis among all peoples and all tongues among the believers and taking their belief and the seals of their soverans and of their highAnd thus he collected the belief of many peoples and of many priests. in
lead
upon these
cloths,
1
,
tongues on these cloths. a\\a\
2
(?)
;
started died
l.
I.
'
3 ,
he turned back after seven years r and wcnt
way
back, the king in
whose days he had
and the magnates who had been umpires, and
the Monophysites. i
word
And
and, while he was on bis
Vbyssinia
pt in
Therefore he wenl only to
tliose
who agreed
and an Arab shaikh or two are meant
from below.
—
3.
Kawad, who
d,
Sept. 531.
is
bis
son succeedcd What
kin^s
—
Thlj
with him.
not easy
to see.
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in the territories of tlie
Romans', and But
becarae
it
living in the country of the Persians that the evil doctrine of
man was
all
peoples and tongues abhorred
it;
more emboldened against them. In this then some occasion called him to go up to the queen of the Romans, yet
to ask her for a letter to the chief
the believers, and, tories of
lo^
wßOOo-
this glorious old
same
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LIFE OF SIMEON
[157
if it
And
Rome.
queen of the Persians about the
were possible,
to
go up
in the
same
affairs of
zeal to the terri-
she gladly consented, because she had in fact been
some time; and she
well acquainted with his earnestness and his zeal for
detained him there for the space of one year, holding him in great lionour.
And God saw
the saint's lahour, and that he had
grown
old and very feeble,
command and he feil asleep there, in our presence; so who himself also was devout and virtuous, whose name
and his signal gave that his presbyter
was Paul,
lived with us in the domicile of the glorious patrician Prolins for J
two years' I.
2.
Nol
tili
,
while at
5:iS.
His
Probably 540-542;
have been 539-540.
ßr'st
see
all
act
seasons
we
meditated together upon the eloquence
was tp make peace(532; Chr. tdrss., A. and DyakonoV, p. 50. Simeon's stay
Introd.
S. 843; 'Zach. Uli.', ix, 7). ii
Constantinople
will
-
then
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heretics
eh.
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f
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B w^»v
man Simeon and on
—
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—
and
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B,
is in
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[158]
B
4.
^v
—
5.
B I^ho l=v
his proeeedings against
NestoriansandManichees, and followers of Bar Daisan
(atjs<7iüTa.i),
and Eutychianists since he also composed a work of Instruction and books many letters on the faitli to ;
of objeetions against the heretics, and he write
inany believers everywliere, some of which in the saint's
we
But
inherited in orderte Supplement his blessing.
also as well feil asleep in the
manner
of
-
NEXT
<>f
Mar Simeon
Tili:
I
and,
bearing the testimony of a devout
when
all
the bishop Ihr Version, debater
TUE COUNTRTt OF AnZETENE
the
t<>
members
a
E
jlf.
ended.
1 .
distinguished, great,
of his family
(ye'vo;),
had died, the whole household and the wealth were I.
is
ELEVENTH HISTORY, OF IIaRFAT THE chorcpiscopllS
lioM
This blessed man belonged (•/cV,:i;
city,
life.
The history
\l.
same
own handwriting
at last that presbyter
and
rieh family
his parents iucluded,
left in this
man's hands,
LIFE OF HARFAT.
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kinsman older than he; and and a dog
Nabal
like
But
in the affairs of the praetorium*.
'
;
lie
practised
and he was
this virtuous Harfat
and simple fashion and spent a guileless Iifewithin the house
having committed the whole management of far as
to the salvation of his soul,
B
\äaace^Sil.
artful tricks
it
to that
like
kinsman
of
he could gave his attention to the needy and while his sonl was indeed vexed and he was
distressed at the multitude of male and female slaves, and hired servants
and Outsiders, and the other luxuriös of the household; and he would think in himself,
and say
:
«
Wherefore do
I
need
on bringing interest and bonds cqntinue
all this
After a
little
parade, while debtors go
be exacted every day?
man was occupied with thoughts
the blessed lliings.
to
that
were adverse
communion'
1
;
»; but
to these
time the bishop of a place called Arsamosata died,
and they came to make the blessed man bishop, that but he shrank from this.
When
is in
the Chalcedonian
they saw that this
man had
absolutely refused, under the inducement of riches and high position they 1. I
4.
Sana., xxv,
3.
—
2.
Sc.
the civil servants in
This would be not earlier than 519, and
time (-Zach. Rh.',
vm,
5).
the
governor's ofüce.
\ve find in facl a
Monophys
te
—
:i.
bp. of
in* v a.
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and he himself as
;
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the hands of another
lived in pure
his
oot
.jiot
moreover engaged 3
.
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and was a man of
deceit
Jacob
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159
Gen., xxv,
Arsamosata
27. al
thal
* 38
vb.
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lie had liis kinsman, a layman, and mäde him bishop; and, when become bishop, the blessed man continually required of him to divide tlie estate; in order that he himself might distribute bis share ((/.e'po;) among the live, it shall not be needv, and he would not agree, saying, « While
seized
I
divided the
Now
».
estate,
they had about
when
and,
five
thousand
denarii, besides all the rest of
man had gone to Ins see, the blessed man among the needy, and committed the rest
thal
distributed as mucih as he could to
our Lord, saying, fad moreover
the
contention and
Luid, ihou knowest the readiness of neither
thal
strife.
to live before thee
Then
«
Henceforth,
according
Nie blessed
hast
man
tliou
Lord,
commanded me dispose thou
Ihiin
In'
had held
my wretched
lefl
ihe house
and the
is
soul
chorepiscopate
otliee of the
for
upon himself, that
mind, and
contiaue in
to thy will ».
some years, and withdrew to a convent And, because he was very simple, and thonght thal life. consummation of perfection, he went and made great heavy
wbich
my to
on
liis
neck and im
his liands
of the solitary this
was
tlie
irons and put
and im
his feet,
LIFE OF HARFAT.
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p
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of his property, bat he
and weeping and groaning
sit
for the rest of
passed from him in vain. Bat,
when
II
_
mountain about three any part
thus on that mountain, mourning
lil'e
which had been spent and had
he had stayed a considerable time in
these mountains, in consequence of the quantity of
snow and the severity of was brought to the
suffered great distress and
man
the cuhl the blessed
(from
L*>-*^-
" ow <ß^»>-
settled 011 a certain
would
\^i
P^=o
the cultivated land, and he did not take or receive
miles from
J.*-*Ä
J^o-a^ y**\ ^.iaAioo ^-slaioo
Then a certain believing lady made a hat for him. and in it andweep night and day, though many said to him, « What is the
point of death.
he would
sit
cause of this weeping of yours that
is
thus incessanf and not for a limited
The man who weeps out of sorrow for his sihs has seasons. W'hy do vou thus weep like a baby over your eating and your sitting down andyour rising up? » But, when he heard these words, the blessed man's sobs would rose all the more, and his very speech to the man who was
season?
addressing him was mingled with weeping, saying,
«
Who, my
PATR. OR.
—
sons, will not
T. XVII.
—
F.
1.
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338
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while
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he
expressed himself
sees a decayed and putrid
r° a.
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Ins. in
^o-
sons of
and of attractive age, when he sees that death
behold
has
corrupted iheir features, and theyhave become mire and putrescence and
loathsome worms inen
weep
for
beauty of childhood?
in place of the attractive
with sobs, how shall
llicse
I
not
now
And,
wail bitterly for
if
my
wretched soul that was fashioned in tlie Iikeness of angels with all beauties, and lo! is dead in sin and decayed through evii deeds and cast down in tlie house of the body, and like
worms?
by nie
How
1
ri
for
1.
i
and wail lil'e
weep
and abominable thoughts creep about
for
pereeiving
ihat
xiii, 27.
is
For ihis reason
il
like a jackal,
1
my moments that have been spent How shall not niouni for my one without knowing iti' And now '.'
I
prepared
for nie,
oughl nol only
which lo
the
workers of
weep, but also to
and increase mourning as of a jackal's whelp
has been spent. for inv inoinenls thal have been consumed,
years thal have
Luke,
nol
sentence of tonnen!
iniquity deserve'.
mv my
1
have uselessly wasted one h\
lo! the terrible
h,r
vvhich corrupt
my
vain withoul
in
days that
ii
in
shall
I
n lost, for
my
time that has been wasted, for
my
LIFE OF IIARFAT.
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let
bis
hands and bis
Ins atlliction penetrated to
we made di
it
nie this,
same
feet be
every place.
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our object to obtain a sight of this blessed man.
we went and
State, sitting in
entered his presence
dejection,
and
;
and so we found him
in great inlirmily
when we had enjoyed (wxppVi'a) of
his society for a
speech
in
in the
on account of the
lahour and the abstinence, as well as from the weight of these irons.
freedom
And,
day and two days, and had gained
his presence,
and continued saying
to
him
« Wherefore, ü our father, have you burdened your body with the weiglit And, when of all this iron? », he said to us, « On account of my sins ».
1.
Matlli.,
xxn,
31.
* B1871
that has overtaken me, for the terrible sentonco of justice,
for the
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What
011
another occasion conversing with, him,
regulation
commands
this
matter of
tlie
we again
said to
tum
irons to be carried out?
:
»,
to humide our body to the earth by labours of asceticism, After we had addressed many words humble it without irons.' ». cannot we to the blessed man. he continued to weep and sigh and at last he said to us
and,
«
If
we seek
:
;
o
And now,
said I"
1 1 i
in
sir, :
bürden, and
«
what do you
We
lade
wisli
wish you
tö
done throw
yourself inslcad
of
? ».
off
And
I,
joking a
little
with him,
these irons which are a useless
them with
performed with knowledge; and thus you will please
the bürden of labours
God
».
But the blessed
man was mucli annoyed at these words, saying, « It were better für nie that mV head were removed and not these irons ». And I turned upon him with « Forwhat reason? » But he in Ins simplicity said, « Qnaccount the words But of mv sins, and on accounl of the stumbling-block put in men'sway ». :
we, since we
pitied
the inlirmity of his body, and
irons from him, said to
him
:
«
vvished to
remove these
Lo! therefore see, our father, thal the matter
LIFE OF IIARFAT.
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since
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seek to conduct ourselves according
God's commandments,
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;
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near to
°
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extract in
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165
mild and lowly
we in
shall hear from
my
heart', and, «
him what
Whoever
smiteth thee upon thy cheek »; and iirst 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy and again God'; and again 'Thou shalt tove thy neighbour as thyself besides the other things which the Lord 'Whoever will take thy cloak' '
;
1
,
taught and
commanded
please the Lord, that
you
it
is
us in bis preaching.
If,
our father, you wish to
by these things and by the others that are like them
will please; but
by irons God
become sources of detriment
will never
to the soul.
be pleased; but they evcn
For now, as you said, you are a
you with irons hanging on you think to ourselves that you' are a great and holy man, and a worker of miracles. When tlie blessed If you are so, you do well in hanging irons on yourself ».
sinner; and
man heard 1.
we
all
or others
who
see
these things, bis heart trembled and he said
Id., XI, 29; V, 3U; XXII. 37,
3'.);
V,
'i0.
:
«
If it is so,
and
JOHN OF EPHESUS.
166
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they tend to cause loss,
cli.
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himself to our Lord, and to us; and by the aid of
Ums
JK^läj
K.->™».1/
1^»1 U»l,
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l».,a*
for as for me it is my And so he committed manv strong men wo took ».
these irons off him; and thenceforth he subjugated himself'
found him
^H-u^n-n
do not desire to suffer loss;
I
insomuch
-v*3
^3^>.
corr. I'i'om
earnest endeavour to amass gain, and not loss
in their place,
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«
Irving a hard
we
seven years
tliat after
and thus he ended
lifo,
by double labours
returned to him, and Ins
we
days with great
glory.
The history of Harfai
NEXT
XII.
CALLED
th<-
chorepiscopus
TWELFTH HISTORY,
TIIIC
DAUGHTERS
OF
AND
AltflDA,
THE GAZELLE Tili:
OTHER
T.WO
Ol 1
,
IN
AND
is
IIOLY
ended.
THELLA DMAUZLATH 2
Inasmuch as we learn from the divine Paul who says that is
Ho male nur female 3
persona also i.
ii"
emphalic
it
who were by \
i
i
I.
,
bitha),
il
um -I
ix.
has
seemed good
36 (see
p.
iT'i
;
but,
as ihe
HER
T.VSK
IN
.
in Christ
Jesus
us to introduce the history of
li>
naturc l'emales; Im-
WHO WERE
S1STERS,
PERFORMED
ONE
I
In-
word
not be readered as a proper name.
sulijecl
is
—
in 2.
of their lives does
the absolute (tabya),
Constantina.
—
3.
nol
the
Gal., in. 28.
LIVES OF
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EUPIIRMIA.
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MARY AND
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jK^j^^io
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and L.
—
A
5.
ins.
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-
wilh o mit. erased.
fall
neither
path
short of the Standard of the series of
in
great,
were
the course of
is
which each one
sisters in the
But
of these
lier
body, of
whom
Mary was
this
tlie
histories of the sainls; since
of these persons lower than that
walked, but their habits of
one, the eider, a
of the high life
also are
These virtuous blessed women then
and surpass written narratives.
Eupheniia.
from
life
was
pure virgin,
called
and
Mary, and one
chose
for
herseif
childhood quiefude and renuntiation and great labours of fasting
and mnch vvatching, and constant prayers, and exertion or of pilgrimage.
This
woman
in the
way
of eharily
therefore formed the plan of going up to
Jerusalem, and in the holy country in which the dispensation for the sake of the
all was carried out there to worship and return to her W'hen then she had gone up and prayed, she stood before
salvation of
employment 2
.
the place called Golgotha, and
was
lifted
up with ecstasy, and she remained
standing there three days and three nights, while raen came and saw her;
and the custodians wished feeble old 1.
Sic syr.
woman, and
—
2.
to driye
her away; and on seeing
further that she
Sc, asectie exercises.
was standing
in
tliat
she was a
prayer they
let
her
E
71
v"
JOHN OF EPHESUS.
168
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that time she used to
sit
sho continued going round and praying
anyone's house or speaking with
in
A
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human
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And,
if
il
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entering
she did not sleep
human beings; t
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And
beings.
the poor and pass the night with them, in
mighl be'.
E
4.
for three
outside the church, or yet ask nything from
among
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but she would
sit
he church and wherever
chanced that anyone came and gave charity
in the
place where she happened to be, she would Stretch out her hand and receive
and,
it;
if
tlie
sum
received
1
>
her
\
reached twenly minae, she would
afterwards accept anything more; and, minae, she would give them to
would
luiv bread for fifteen minae,
whenever
sii
that
the
110
sii
lYniii
1.
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same way, and
would in
il
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Icannot
to be
the place for three
someone
'
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while
eise; bul
and herb-;
for
with these twentv she
two, and pulse for three; and
she would take her food.
where she happened
But,
to be,
if
it
chanced
she would
sil
in
and four days, and as much as a week she
with her mind wrapl up
silent,
of Gölgotha,
not
she received more than twenlv
if
she sat
in
with
heaven. her
Usually her seat was
eyes raised, and
looking
with thestalemenl above thal she never passed a night outside the church.
ej
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in
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wonder and weeping, just as if she were looking at God fastened there to the cross and standing there, with the result that, while she sat mad in admiration every day, those who saw her looked upon her as a woman, or as some old person who had become silly; and thns she completed three years there in her praying. And afterwards some persons in ecstatic
came
her and were well acquainted with her admirable modcs of
thither
looking at
and funnd her
it,
sitting before
life
Golgotha with her eyes raised and
and weeping with ecstatic wonder.
And on
seeing her they
obeisance to her, and saluted her; but she was troubled, Then these because she did not wish that men should know her there. woman blessed the of of life modes perfect persons told many about the And from her childhood down to her old age, and many marvelled at her. feil
down and made
whose eyes she had been reckoned as a foobsh old she sat there for the sake of charity in order to live the bodily life, began to honour her as a great and holy woman, entreating her But the blessed woman when she saw it, inasmuch as she to pray for them. was Struck with fear lest she should be h'onoured by men and lose her labour,
thenceforth those in
woman, and
fled
as
1° a.
J^otlo ..öws
W «^
4.
'ii
loc***>Ko
-ot . voc*.-.^ JJjl; .ov^ ^--tfi^SLio
3.
A
KM
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^^-io
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—
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l°°«
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line.
who knew
E7
>^^d ^ )v*- JoCM^> J°t? och T A -.U^>o Jv-odo* +a Jjjoi; ^>a. ^.jl-J v^o« -.^i Jc*ioI^ looi 'UJ^
J.ä^o^
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MARY AND EUPHEMIA.
LIVES OF
16 9]
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if
thence immediately, being dislressed at her expulsion from the holy
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1.
place,
J;oi
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from l*a=»o) l-*=oio-
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—
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JoC^j
looi J-;j
where God
her
all
Life
the season of extreme heat,
Jjlsoio .6*.-.^.*
w^ieä- ^^so
^
J-^'j.3o öi»t.J
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)ooi
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Jj.1*. jJ
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to her
OlKÜOOO )
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-—
ool -.öw.OO;
in that
occupation
all
her
went down again to the East and she she would once every year ofTer worship in the ;
thus she did, travelling along that road in
and she did not taste anything except every other
day, white she carried nothing whatever except one sinall baskcl
which she fastened
^^
^.:*>i,
E
2.
And
sufTered.
^r*
..öi^i^s
1
so she departed, and
determined that
ohl~;
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,— J^aijo
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loot
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looi Jjisoi c*jls£k
^
oöt-i;
Jbai^
looi
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J^A ^3;
inasmuchas she had intendedto remain there
lifetime.
place
).n\co
^io;
)i-3o;
J.L30I3
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fl0
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)
,
[170] N?
(airuptoa),
arm, and one salver; and thus she travelled.
she imposed this labour upon herseif every year
all
the
Aul
days of her Ute,
returning and applying herseif to constant prayers and supplications and tears, all
the days of her
quid
life;
and so she would when her time cainc again vow and come back to
return and go up to Jerusalem, and accomplish her
her usual habits, insomuch that great deeds of power were wrought bv her presence, nol
l>\
her will and her words.
from such things, and
anything of he Kind i
her agaiü
For
it
was not pleasing
to her;
tliis
and,
devout
if
But she herseif shrank greatly to
her that
anyone should say
an\ one wished to press her, he did not see
woman guarded
herseif carefully against pride
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MARY AND EUPHEMIA.
LIVES OF
[171J
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J_fcio3o/ ^»»
•.Ö&.
J.001
),— Uv-so
looi
Ka-aj )'»-^^
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K.\
^-; ^_3Ȁs_.s .ouS. looi J-jl^^o (oC^s )pa.>. jlia^j
.loot
\±ä~>l
plK^w ; Öi-V-SOt-^ ').a
aa
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.''J.iaia.../io
j~>t-~/
-
«01
J^KaÜo
•
—
2.
E
ins.
—
3.
and repressed vain glorv,
^.nmä
a husband,
jj
E UaaaiAv
lest
I
for a
J^xQJ
J„«_~
J~«J^;
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v3/
6^^^~«.:a.^.
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.looi
<
t.
and had had one daughter, in religion.
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^*?
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E L^-a^Uo-
—
5.
pl.
in her
who
J^».»;!/ vs/ .^-.»-.ot
^^o |_~..«.Ji
^>o
—
(i.
«otoK-«..^o
E IV=o»o U-*^-=>
But her
sister
childhood been united to
herself also
had been trained
But afterwards, since this woman's husband little
and turned to the practices of her
daughter formed the household,
to herself' sister
from the secular Order
which she had been practising
long time, and lived in the order of devoutness and in the religious
habit (^f,y.xi, while she also learned the psalms by heart, and taught theni to
her dauffhter; for her daughter also had while she was a child been
splendidly trained in the psalms and in the Scriptures and in haudwrifing.
And from
that time she appointed fixed hours for reciting service
the prayers, those of the night
and
for
and those of the day; and, while observing
her sister's asceticism and the rest of her practices,
she herself practised
another high and sublime order of
fact
life,
while she in
carried out both,
the observance of abstinence and the praetice of relief of the distressed. tliis
admiralile
woman
othcr men's bread that 1.
Luke, xv,
17.
But
mind not to introduce into her house was not gained by the wprk ol her hands; and, if it
decided
in her
ätlv'
a.
£CS^>»
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t-ü« "' E
\
^~»o )«;
JojSs
,«w=>
)i»s;l^.io
(ich
she should lose her labour.
had died, Euphemia herseif and her
lile,
«*
-
jjot»
inxn^, ,-iO vS/j
S
insomuch that she thencefonvard came of
-
.loot
,jd
.looi
Jlc+^ioL
Euphemia, who was younger than she, had from a tender age
&l
J)
*s/;
öt^^j öu*^o;; J^.jl3o |Ao-*aJA»a
^ot-öl
).jl^o.jl^o
.ogu^V-s
^v
)Vaio).iajso
j.«_a.2^oo
-Jooi ^jJi» y/o .^.aij
A "W-
JldA^OL^iw;
n^eo
j->C^;
looi
«et
..)^io
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)^s;'Kio
looi
^.io
J...°>
K^clco )Lä.\,io jKx^aul; (.iä^f^io jj^
-.looi
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«oto .looi
|~io_~.Xi
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J_^\.\* .looi
01 31 ^
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i-joio
1.
J-
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ötlj^S.o -.k*3u^. jVaiopo
J^jo
.^>)i.-oiJ
yo'11
0/
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oii'f.a
^00 po
j-so
ätl^so '''^«^io
ch1q_^s^-=>
....» 2>
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JOHN OF EPHESUS.
172
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^io
p
Jjoi
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K~./j
oolo
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Jow.*p
J.—a,jLioi
y.^.
v^
Jjxa-JS,
J^aS.;
J001 •
^s;/ o/
.
Ji-ict— o
y>o+^ o/
J.^vt
came linc
ins. \>l-l
in,
E
worked
.5o.
—
3.
buying
assigning Ihc
ine to every place
anvwhere
.J-^».Q.iL«.a
>i« ^
o/ v-ro/i
JjLio;
E
orn.
—
E
4.
ins.
:J^l^^cd o/
L^:*xj» o/
>.
y°r*° y°? °/
Jj;
..;
yOouS.3 J-oäjcs
JjV.i-t.io;
J^lJO o/ |
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Kjk.s.2
JJ;
/
^j'/
>.o|Jl»»;
-
?°—-^-3
*^
any
which she received
other
supply
small
their
J^-.io-COi
J-^j
JK«.£Cls1 looi •
a
.
»'fo;
oi' it.
).vi',.
in
J\"v> cxX
But, because they were of goafc'a
frora great ladies of the city
of provisions
wilh
half
the relief of the poor and the
half to
J.Jo„o',L.o
o*V
of
sick
and it,
and
would take cooked food and bread and
where there was anyone
bonds or shut up
in
and again she would go round
eise,
>oo_
MM
o|jV.^.-.j/
JJ
the prisoners, while every day she \\
-J^^ro/
l
jVols
Jvj.~
workwomen, they would weave two pounds only
for a denarius,
up,
]Lxiü
<^'t—
neither she her daughter tasted
and excellent
wool yarn
and
2.
J.:^;
JK^joV
.bo f.» looi jLo.L».o öiiV.^S. looi J-^om
^j).llio
—
.
?o~JS*.s ^-»i.»l
ou^I^.3 oöio •.ot,^N°>j>
^°*^° ooto .^S. ^sj
/?
^.-.\ y/o .c*\ looi J.n.^4.
E
00
ä^^
JLjoi
V^
J
.vJS.
j
-.looi J-ovs^io
>oo_QJ ;
.
•
JJxs
Joot
JiüijL
K.^:^
.t-ia,^ ott^i
JJ
^•i^*^'
)-J^*J
J^x
J.ia~.\o
\hjo
J.1*/
la\
loot
^o-*^
s^öot
.oCS.
l»-^ -^?
J.^aJlX loot
y.,\.,*l
^.\
Jj-^?
-.JL-.*..^v3o
t
iVj/
^-iö ooi
:ooji
.^_.ot^^«t—
1.
^3
y~
yOOULio
J.xi-A
o3x
^o3l^
jL.sa.-io
looi
.
3
Jaa.m.iö*
Ja-/
^.^.io
^*;
It 1-*»-
U'.^jo
^_.ott ^3L-.iö
Jl»a>>j i
ts-.Jt.iXJ;
K.*J.*-«'0
[172]
all
in prison or
the streets of the city, and
wherever she found a sick man or a eripple, or a blind man of an old man \\
Im could not stand, she would
W hat,
my
by the side of each one of them and ask
sit
Would you like ine to buy you some bread and herbs only? ür do you perhaps wish for something eise instead <>f this? or do you perhaps wish nie to go and buy von some tinc wheaten bread? » And, whatever the man, whoever he might be, said, if liim,
(i
her head-covering hira.
And,
if
brother, do
wa9
she had
in ils 110
you wish?
place
1
coppers
,
she did not leavehim at
take some article of their furniture and e
was covered.
tili
she had satisfied
hand, she would run to her housc and r
L,
o and
pawn
it,
and thus she would
LIVES OF
[173]
J_.po
öi^J^ajo
jj;
o^o
^oöl;
) .. .
.OU.V-3 ?
)
n
i
od
oö»\
^00
»Vi ;
-'
I^cl^m
looi
v
K*Ao
K^
jooi
^^soi
»J»»-^
.-^
^00^2^3 ^io
\o^o;
^- mv»
6.
E
yoA
och-s
yOi\
<»;
^*"
—
2.
Erasure followsin A.
i»oia2s»|lo-
Jjqj
»Vl=.
satisfy that indigent
-
- 7.
lVoaA\
—3. E om.
—
i.
o/
^_iö_^
4
6u^Lo
<^V^^? (2° d
«
ollo
j-»>^ö/
ins. in Iater
who escaped
yoaib»
^.\oi
»£>\».~
band).
for him,
whom
knew
And,
5.
E
>=ol-.
man among
sick poor
was capable
of
running about
».
And
«
Is
all
there
so in Ihe case of
she found sick, according tö the extent of her possessions she
would buy she
—
her so that she did not visit him either
needy orphan, or a poor old sick widow?
whom
.w^S
,.3
.JJ.-Q-.S
But she would go round the courts ofthe houses and ask,
everyone
.-ou^.
E »SoLL.
twice or once in the day, inasmuch as she
liere a
,-).ai(i£>
JL1»^0
yaioa^
y^l
j.i.,_}
'looi
-Jt-iÖ/o
JJ;
A W^s«|a
looi
it
fi'ne
to
wh'eaten bread and
fruit,
and wine
for
anyone
be proper, and would go round and distribute
for
it
to
happened that she had not by her wherewithal to satisfv any manwhoever he might be as was proper, nothing whatever would prevent
them.
if it
her from at least bringing sitting
atllicted
youare of
him apples or pomegranates or
fish
by him and taking him by the hand, and asking him you,
my
son
in distress
?
»,
admonishing and saying,
and have no consolation.
unending blessings that are prepared
these distresses which are passing by
for
« I5e
in that
upon you.
because he endured and was patient and did not
or bread, and «
YVhat
lias
not dejected because
Blessed are you
you
for Ihe
world,
Look
murmur
at
•
A
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74 v*.
.L}oa_
¥>,.2>o
jVoj.— o/>
oiioJS.
man; and there could not be any
those lying in iho streets
day.
i^lo
j-sä^ J.iao
JJ*
.JJö*
looi
jKlicaiO
jK_i_flD
oö^> -oio_«-w^ui;
jjLioo»
^CU^
'»Ä^»-oll
^-i-^^iö ^»V^s
^ö
o/
s^oki.^
1
^a^io; .»p^s yoia—
E 1w*P-
1.
—
.-Lia^JS. o/
2
/o
.^.ota-i^floi
jjpKio
looi
jjj
Jooi._m
ouS. jooi »^oj»j
Jj^kiOO
°9i?
jLicu^co
o/
.,^lVl
)ĻXio;/
Jj.:»j
,iooi
y-\
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^.o(a^.^J.ilo .'ot^jLs
JS^Xo yokj/ ^.j-J^J .j^a^»»i»
j^^Äioo
^^
**>
flD
JJ;
^Jb»..o
v/o -vOoC^
j»— o/
jlV^i ^.;
..Jom>3;
Jpeu-o .J-s/o J^-^c -a); J.ia— 2^ .o»J^ )ooi
jK-JL^j
oCS. looi
)oup )-iimvi
^_io
-.jJJjLioo
JLlSOIO
lT.i
..UajJio
Jjlsojo
^?'? ^»Aoi
ts^.1
'|^»ot
)
°l
.
jpaioj ^"/ .Lioo^s
ioot
'i
ivi
^-ocL» a
,
:)^-'j J^ok-
o|
•
.looi
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]J
MARY AND EUPHEMIA
in
number
return for
Lazarus,
how
he inherited the
JOHN OF EPHESUS.
174
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i
75
r
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^x2u
"^aa -Jwi^JJ
k-./»
ia^.£DL
öi^
Jouila^. u^^jIi looi J.Ä2iiD
öii',-3
-?t
pojj
JLj/
^.»Aico looi
y/
«'w-
kingdom
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üiii.
)
>.t\
0&.
J
jjjlo...
.
l\
X
3l
^J&^iO
^*> yj
J_o„Xjlcdo
JJ/
.K-J^a^iol looi jbai. Jj>aia_/o n
•> ,>
;
:U\-~l °l öil'^—
Jjjl^
.~;
^-*o»_.lYK-s;
,1-JS.V.J»
looi
l>..iI>OOi
ÖiS.
^»o£S.io>.
jj
JjJ~
K*^t
)ooi
),.. »
v«^»
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.^O
oilovj^^. oooi ^-»>L.
..j^'^^o» ,ioo«
ö^
^o
-.L^'/
J-^\
°l<^ )°oi
»•
of heaven. »
And
Blessed trulv
visitor'.
ji-V—/°
JJjo
.JjL^i
jl.ia.^-^ oi^o.3 i^ca> w^a^o/
E
öw-^
.o»J^ oi-oll» looi J-O.3K.Oli0
)po/ »J
S^_fcaLiOO
K-.)—I'^luiO;
-^-v^o
,),_,
J-uJSa3 oom
ji^J*;
r jx>. ch\. looi
jj*
t^/o
•
-J;oi «Ol
<0_.flol
ou.oi
jJo
^*^>Q-i )iiwvi
vm,»°>v> -.-.oia^^i
Joot
(^.oifSoo "^... T^O Jjlsoio .»oSs-cdIo
.looi
"
-.^>
lv-
^-»)mV*
JK*Jl^
C*^JL2)
^o^ia-^vSo -.^jji;
j-^t.-»«
Jloa^io
.J.-»-*»-*?
..)KjL.poj jlVj—o JVJ»— v 05*^3
^>l»o
)ooi
oüS.
J^-*^
*^
Jjjoio
J-*13 ?
j-V^^10 J^jl^SO
,jo .looi
k.^SSj
^^-xiN
viio.2>«-flOo
[174]
so the poorused to call her 'our comfort and our
ihal soul for the
is
nu'mber of souls that are laden
with gratitudeto her and with her bounlies, like ihose of the original Tabitha,
God
and display Ihem
to
called Tabitha
over Ihe city.
women ofthe distressed
all
city
the all-seeing; and accordingly this
to entreat her to
from
nur
that
anxiety,
she
amount
herseif to the
employmenl at
mindedlj and vvithoul
and on to
visit
relieve
the
she
And therefore murmuring aighl and
companions or anyone
liis
fife
to be required
was much
used
by her
distressed,
and needy out
sid<
she had
vvhich she had taken
night.
fashion,
liberal
and thus she was henceforth
them;
both points
and another that
of labour,
and saw that she was
seeking what was for the good of
because
was unable
her hands, excepl
of her
zeal,
the distressed in a
go and take everything that she knew
relief of the afflicted
free
small
in
visit
woman was men and
the high-placed
all
saw her strenuousness and her
because she could not
everyone who was earnesi
for the
And, when
mit
upon
leisure
of
herseif, the
their
devote
to
work
of
her däughter laboured simple-
day, and she would say
eise said to her.
o
if
any
Your rnother leaves you
to
MARY ÄND EUPHEMIA.
L1VES OF
[175]
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L^oiKio
^oo-J\a.T>
|_jL_t_a_io
loot
JJ^.i_=>a^
J;ot
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61^.2^
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sn
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1.
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w^.o',.3 '"'Sä^.o'/o
Joot vJlj-sKiO
•
.
.•w-^a.ia^.
JLsa.o-^;
y-*\
chA
*;v
work alone »
day
all
oreater than pra) r ers.
Jp>o/ +z
s£DO,_a»
jJo
^>0 yOOl^
.^--Ot^s.^3.^
JN.iol6j>
.yOOi..»oi..»^JS;
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ins.
,J .looi ).£a^2.^io
>Jpo/
jl»/
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E
--«
6tla\jV3
JoC^.
.^.»Aio +3 .ou^s L>oo_ Uj^ioo
>s/
'^OläI*
L75
she on her part would say
»,
labours: and
all
And
I
receive
1
My
«
,
streni^th
mother's labour
is
from God through her
woman liad a littlo freedom from own necessities, and as far as
therefore this blessed
anxiety, since her daughter laboured for their
they were able
she
solicitude carried
alllicted all the da} r
,
the
quence
many would
necessities
May
and
distressed and needy and
and afterwards she would further gatlier them together
save
me from
my body out receiving in my
eating
the
work, and
spirit the stains of their sins ».,
pressed her on the other side, she to this charity of yours, since
that poor girl
I.
Sic syr.
is
it
is
But,
was displeased and would
you wish
blots are sullicient for
who
conse-
to pollute
me.
with me, both to
me with
beings,
strong enough to
of the toil of otliers while
my own
in
human
strength of
and gratifying
sins;
And
what was required for her own her daughter, and she would not consent, saying,
entreat her to accept
tliose of
the Lord
much
needy, and she herseif without
ministration to the
house every day and relieve them out of their labour.
at her
«
supplied the
out
say,
if
«
anyone
A
the mire of
truce
your
God puts strength in me and work for our necessities, and
in
to
•
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42
V a.
JOHN OF EPHESUS.
176
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;
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l^isi-
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la^; J-po»
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ocx;
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,_io
la*vs JN^jlsq^ -? ^*a^o -.yo^/
J^J..io.^
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oi-^OLi
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>1-S"
—*
7
I '
om
-
—
°'
minister to our brethren according to our power.
"'
»
A.
^ov^^-
And
so they never ate
except from the proceeds of their labour in their house, unless perhaps one of them might be constrained on some occasion to perform an act of friendsliip 1
somewliere.But inthis way they were continually occupied
moreover
in
the blessed
fasting also and prayer,
and the
woman was engaged outside
in this labour,
recital of service
;
and
and, whenever
inministering to the needy, shewould
perform her office (*avwv) in the street while going from one to another, and likewisealso did her daughter too
at
liome as well, and at vespers, noctiirns,
While theo
and matins they recited service together.
was with
all
perfect course of
neither did she miss
life,
the great
another labour, in order that the saying bf the Lord talents
five
who
said,
«
He
that hath to
him
shall
fulfiUed; but, vvhen the persecution took place,
l.l
woman
and
benefil
to the
be gjven all
derived from
man who had »'-',
ihe
might be
the convents round
were expelled from their places, and the adversaries occupied them, thal blessed woman, like a harbour Xifr/iv) which receives ships from all
the city n
Ihis blessed
her power running in the line of these great practices and in this
Ly
2.
Matth.,
w\.
29.
\ J^^*00
NS
*° ^°?
1^.»»
^^i<x^ jpoas^ vooü^ ooot ,<-,j^fcoo
•^»-A»
t—^
..
v^^IJL
l^°^p>
c*jl_3~i looi
j^söi-
J^iii.
^o
It-m^.
1.
3
—
sides that they
2.
A
^..-w
may
lie
relieved thepersecuted
no place
•°°l
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E ao^?«*
i'or
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.juJJ ö|l>-^»
0/
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t
(sie).
to
—
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to
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3
5
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E
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^
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5.
^
jJS*jLia*k\
a^
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r;
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.U^ä^
^»»-oi
\
U^oio Jl>.-^> «01
a Ua^icis-
peace in it, so herseif also reeeived and from every place; and, because there was
at
afflicted
the convents
y^\
6tlvjL-\o
j.i«C^j;
^»o. -
E
3.
and be
and
J.bi.
-
c*i.
.voi.o_=ü
» v ojo
)jL^;o_0 v3/
K.wo^
öu;a—J^_» ^Jls
x
.j-w^JLioo ,looi jL=ufl.io
06.0 .jK-ajilo JN^V,L.o .ka*^' JK^Voj
-.looi
Ji.oi-oij.3
J^ÄCSO
^^iOO
r-*VJ>-'?
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(Kau
177
2 »j .J^.oV |K.:^ 66. i-t-^/o .k-co^i./ ,~*; -ot
.OtS JoOl
oj/
JU/;
EUPIIEMIA. ..ou>
)jl3oi
K*\
ioiiojLiöo
JjooK^> KjloI
looi |t^.J
vs/
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joot
J^o^
J_OÄ>;Va3^>o Ji.Voj.3o
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0/
MARY AND
LIVES OF
[177]
away from
enter
the heretics,
they were
constrained to find qnarters with her as with a devont wornan renowned for
hermanner which was
Butshe found means, and hired spacions rooms; and one
oflife.
suited and adapted for the purpose and of great size she turned
into an imitation of a
chests \
everything that
mats
martyrs' chapel, with likenesses and pictures, and
and. everything, while
also,
the oblation
proper to a monastery were
and curtains and rugs.
made provision she alone
is
in a certain inner
And
and the Seriptures and
also in
it
;
for herseif
Chamber; and
and she prepared great and her danghter she
heilig a very wise
woman
devoted herseif to ministration with the blessed men, and her
daughter, because she was a child, she would keep in security within
r by by the sight of her she should härm anyone, or bc herseif harmed by anyone through the sight. And so from that time that
day and 2 by night,
lest
martyrs' chapel harboured not fewer than ten or fifteen, and as
many
as
twenty, while with the labour of their hands which they disposed of outside 1.
Either for relics or
PATR. OR.
—
I'or
the sacred vessels.
T. XVII.
—
F.
1.
—
2.
A
om. 13
e
V:
r
76
a.
V*.
JOHN OF EPHESUS
178
J^aJ^ iV oo6>
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;
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loot
.iv
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Joot •
J^'o
iooi
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i
r
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2.
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3.
E ^£»0-
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4.
E
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V?J ?'
lentils
~»n
vf—jKajo a.^^ yjo
J-*- J /
jtC^K^s övia—-\
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5.
loot
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Jl^JL.^iaj» ^.^x..^
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to
°°^°
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and herbs from evening
^3
"*?'
k-)v*^o
».3
sing.
make bread and
she would tliereforc buy wheat and lentils and herbs, and
cook
J^ioa
x^*-3
'
loJ^
^öu»
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1
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p
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loot
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^.^io
lo^j ötoo—
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[178]
evening, and thus she would relieve
manv as came, while she herseif was oecupied in her miiüstration whole day, and moreovrr also the blessed inen too were ceaselessly When accordingly they came to her from all remitting(?) matters to her
them, as the
1
.
quarters on aecount of her love toward God, and the produce of their labour
was
too small lo provide for them, she
was compelled,
in order to relieve their
distresses, for their sake to aeeept
what was necessary
never joined them
And,
reverend
them,
would bring
she
she
sei
them, sayirig
An
be
to
portion
need and not
in
A
«
:
all
it
2
mighty matter
cl
as she ale
'
'
happened
of her
bread and
But, ifit
known it
them, while she
for
that there
were some
her to reeeive the blessing wilh
is
happened
all
that
she
that strangers
came, she would
in the city
of high position,
your good things are.
"i h
triple
a
some persons
to
whose property I.
if
before her, and so eat.
it
knew
go out and go of
it.
men among them who constrained
required and
whom
tasting of
in
and make instant demands
thal
And now
Or render 'were sending Ihings
von do
toward Christ,
you
are smearing off
lo
lo
!
her'.
—
2.
'rinn'
loaves? Or
mo
n^»» a
^*.
Jjoö/j
qjlso
J;ot Jjlsoj
^-O^j
>s/;
ooot
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.
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laoX n a Ks^jo i^aii «Sl^Kjoj JotSxo
.'^axjo Kj/ E
1.
—
l»oov
ins. » init.
—
2.
wOiaVf^ol
E »ai^-
—
3.
tvj/
ous looi
o wrilten over marg. in A,
E
nmxs
)
vOioo..aJo
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»
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—
4.
.
n^
»soxjo
_
E k^^n^o.
)^ou think that
your charity
is
(
».
5.
e
'Woe
great.
men wail and weep for the calamities that are Coming And in aecordance with the text « The righteous is bold
you, rieh
you'
.-^.ioV*
Jj^oto
|xsä^CS>
A
6.
your superfluities on him, and to
-.ouio
Jjl2l.'/°
L*_ia2io/;
to
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JjL-^> liOO-
J-
EUPIIEMIA.
jot
yo
,)iL.bo>
)...;/
m ^a_X ^11»
i
.Jou*^
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a^J^./
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MARY AND
LIVRS OF
[179
lipon
;
lion >r, so this zealous
woman would
as a
boldly rebuke everyoue wilhout fear of
men and women of the city were was going up to the threshold and they heard that Euphemia was coming up, they would say, « Woe to us; Tabitha has come upon us to smite us ». And so therefore she would boldly take all that she wanted to give to anyone who was in need, to the blessed guests or to sick widows and orphans and needy persons, or perhaps sick men, and go down. Bat, if anyone was recalcitrant and did not give cheerfully, she would make him nie the day by her words, saying, « Is it well that you persons, insomuch that the high-placed afraid of her, and, as soon as she
thus
sit
yourself while slaves stand and wait upon you, and enjoy a variety
of tastes in dainty foods
while Ins
God
is
in
wines, and of 8 pure bread and splendid rugs,
in the street
and swarms with
hunger, and you do not fear him? and
when you
he answer you, 1.
and
knocked down
James,
v.
I.
—
2.
I'rov.,
xxvm,
treat 1.
—
how
will
you
lice
and
call
him with such contenipt? ür how 3.
Sic syr.
from
faints
upon him and will
you
JOHN OF EPHESUS
ISO
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—
3.
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ts»_.)v..>^o
.
v oof.fc.\.\
JVaXj^O JLJLsVojX V""-^
^Ot^°
JjLSot
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Mss. ^l»^v».
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JJ»
4.
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sing.
—
5.
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JLooi
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J-J-caa /
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Jjl<^2> JoIS,jdo
—
6.
A
>ä2&)o,^5|I
how can you expect him to deliver you Crom would pass judgment upon them, so that those who
ask forgiveness from him? Or
And
hell? »
ihus she
wero secular saying
«
(?)
were
a little offended against her in
who
Tlie fool loveth not one
so earnestly beut on relieving at
lacked
human comfort and
all
reproveth him
»
'.
accordance with the
But she herseif was
costs distressed and afflicted souls
who
satisfying their needs that even the whole city
did no1 suffice for her business, but she
would even go round the inns and
roads and habitations outside also and search, lest there should he any needy
man
or stranger laid up sick in one of them, so that she in fact found
many
and relieved them. And some she took inlo her housc, and some she carried to superintendents of hospitals, chiefly
on
known
to greal
her even this
al
a
and small
distance
1>\
Prov., xv,
12,
feet,
;
and everyone recognised her on seeing her quick and rapid walk, since she would walk in in ihe city,
way summer and winter
whatever on her l.
and gave charge concerning them, and it was were received and tended for slie was
her account that they
in
mud and snow and
frost
without anything
with her toes bruised and her nails torn out and the
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blood flowing from her wounds, and she would not consent even to treat them,
while everyone was very sorry for her
saw
lier; for
«
Do
«
When
not
siuall to teil
city
yourself in so cruel a way, Tabitha
kill
the end of a thing it? »
preserve
And
'
she
was so energetic
the story of her great labour
of Thella
was celebrated
that the
fame of these
wrapt
wonder
for her
sisters
to think
how
woman had
practices,
;
»
;
but
slie
in her task that the for, just as
which they
would say
:
all
mouth
is
too
her sister Mary in the
perfeet practices
woman
was spoken
of asceticism
also in the city of
and
Amida; so
over the East, everyone being
each of them in one peerless mode oflife was
strenuously applying herseif to blessed
in
corruption and the worin, wherefore do \ve
is
quietude and renuntiation, so was this
in
account of the stale
011
indeed \ve ourselves too would often jest with her and say to her,
störe up righteousness.
When
completed a period ofthirty years more or
then the
less in
and her house thundered night and day with the praises
such
of the
1. This must have been while John was living in Amida, i. e., between 530 and 537 (see Intimi. and the story is with his usual carelessncs^ misplaced, for the monks were not in exile at that time, and Ihe persecution raentioned must appy. bc that of 537. ).
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always envious of good things did not
make them
and deprive them of
cruelly and savagely and mercilessly, in that they said,
disturbing
.)Kj-^d
«
lose the benelit
Them he
it.
envy of those who held power
the heretical
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neglect to stir np a trial against them, in order to of their greal and spiritual business
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in the
stirred
church,
These woraen are
and the Citizens fear and honour them more than the house has been made a cave of robbers', and they
city,
bishops; sinee their
And they sent and arrested them and make them communicants in their brought many inducements to bcar upon tliem
reeeive and shelter the deeeivers
».
broughl them into the church, in order to impiety.
both
in
When Mm-
way
they had of threats
and
woman
yield, bul the blessed
vehement language, saying,
in the in
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13.
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in
of blandishments and
As forme, may
From communicating with those proclaim a quaternity
way
who
the Lord Jesus Christ deliver
divide him,
place of the Holy Trinity
similai
storj
they did not
conlidence that fights with death even used
is
told
bj
John
in //.
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,
and with those and,
39.
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those
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they were seized with
heard them,
whole
And
so slie
was eonfined
city entreated that
slie
for thirty
might
days
in the
released;
be
furious,
woman
punisbment
be eonfined in the lowest dungeon of the prison as a audacity'.
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vehement, passionate indignation, and they ordered the blessed
the
.jbo^S
dungeon, while
bound
and they
tbemselves under a curse that she should not come up thence
to
for 'tliis
tili
she reeeived
And, when slie heard it, she would mockat them, and Would that might undergo sulferings in return for the suffering of am glad to die here rather him who suffered for my sake on the cross. And, when they saw than to die in denial of my Lord and my God ». the oblation there.
say
:
«
I
I
that
was impossible, and the whole
it
they released
her
and
expelled
Satan had been contriving city
to
her
people of high position were distressed. it
was
the
trials
(äywv)
of
And
then
But they go up
so
persecution
Or
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as also
'.
left,
and wenl
Jerusalem
to
for
live
also
the poor of the
these blessed
reeeived one another's blessing, afterwards, thinking 1.
all
allliction, r insomucli that
their wish to
went up and prayed, and returned. büffeted by
And
bring about.
were oppressed with sorrow and great
blessed sister Mary, and
was grieved on her aecount,
city
from the whole city; which
;
1
all
the
In
her
and they
women were
years; and, having
that the fury
againsl
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speak
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[184]
began
to
in
whose house they were residing were alarmed, and they besought them
to
depart,
distressed; and she cried to God, and said
thy mercy knoweth thal in ine.
1t is
and
into a sickness in fear,
I
have grown feeble, and there
sufficient for nie ».
forth for the blessed feil
;
woman
1
shall
And
is
the sanie night a
:
«
summons was
and says to them
go out from r among von
1
:
this
who was
called Maria, in
and said
«
Be not dismayed,
weck assuredly
1.
Or
it
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from
nie,
our house'.
my
beloved)
;
but
I
to her
:
«
My
».
And
my But she
daughter,
purity for the Lord your Lord to
am not deserting you for am committing you to the Child of my
wlmni you were betrothed; and be not distressed, be
sent
and, while these people were troubled on her account
be comforted in Christ, and keep yourself
(far
Lord,
no more strength
they did not understand her words, to what departure she referred. called her daughter,
My
according to the request of her prayer, and she
she called them,
children; for
But the
they said) their house should be plundered.
(as
lesl
woman was
blessed
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Lady Maria, and
Spirit of
God I
And
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for
my
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a temple for the indwelling of the
am going
of the
^
JTiocoo
.OUlSJ
many charges to Christ »,
lipon
her,
Lord Jesus Christ
;
low-
you Holy
and saying
and committing her
divine grace, while speaking, she stretched out her hand, and
over her in the
:ipo|o c*^
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the holy one herseif, that by her prayers
after laying
part
3.
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MARY AND EUPHEMIA.
made
to the
the sign
and she extended herseif and
looked toward heaven, and, while her eyes were raised toward heaven, her
away, while everyonewas seizedwith amazementat her departure; And on the next and her daughter remained alone solitary and bereaved. day but one after her mother's departure, while she was in inisery and was
soul passed
and she also was near passing away froin life, lo! a man from the blessed Mary, who had passed from the world to God ten days before. And certain persona on it coming to their knowledge prevented her niece from hearing it and her soul flitting from sorrow, since her whole hope was now this, to go to her blessed aunt, and share her manner sitting in her grief,
came bearing a
of
life
letter
until her end.
hear the
And
for this
reason they prevented
news and be överwhelmed with anguish.
These
it,
lest
she should
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