Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Second Series, Volume XIII Gregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus, Aphrahat

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Philip Schaff
Cosimo, Inc., 2007 M06 1 - 440 pages

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APHRAHAT THE PERSIAN SAGE
119
Name of author of Demonstrations long unknown
152
Their subjects and arrangement
153
Ascribed to Jacob of Nisibis
155
His Nationality Persian and probably heathen
156
Evidence that he was a cleric and a Bishop
157
His writings little concerned with current controversies
158
Possibly suspected of a Nestorian tinge
159
On the Faith The Pearl
291
HOMILIES
303
On our Lord
305
On Admonition and Repentance
330
On the Sinful Woman
336
SELECTIONS FROM APHRAHAT DEMONSTRATIONS
343
Of Faith
345
Of Wars
352

Their popularity in the Armenian church
160
Discovery of the PostSyriac original
161
His use of Holy Scripture
162
SELECTIONS FROM EPHRAIM HYMNS
163
Nisibene Hymns
165
On the Nativity
221
For the Epiphany 263
247
Of Monks
362
Of the Resurrection of the Dead
375
Of Pastors
383
Of Christ the Son of God
387
Of Persecution
392
Of Death and the Latter Times
402
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