From the journal of an early Western visitor to
the East. This excerpt describes in detail Jerusalem's
Christian liturgical cycle. Modified Duchesme translation.
-- Michael Fraser
Legendary lives of the patriarchs who lived before the Deluge.
May or may not be a genuine work of Ephraim.
Translated and edited by G. A. Anderson and M. E. Stone.
--- University of Virginia
Bar-Daisan was a celebrated intellectual whose version of Christianity incorporated Gnostic and possibly Hindu or Buddhist ideas.
Here, Ephraim sings that
God is everywhere and fills all things; everything else -- in
particular, Fire -- is merely created, not pre-existent as
Bar-Daisan must have argued.
Jones translation, 1904. --- SPL
Eighth Epistle Ostensibly a justification of Basil's withdrawing into the
country to meditate, this is is one of the finest Orthodox expositions of the Trinity to
emerge from the Arian crisis. However, since the
1920s, most scholars have attributed this work to Evagrius Ponticus,
a controversial disciple of Basil and Gregory the Theologian
whose Origenistic speculations (in other writings) were
condemned by the Fifth Ecumenical Council. The Greek manuscripts themselves,
however, ascribe the epistle to Basil. Jackson translation.
--- SPL
