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The name, Aphrahat, is the Syriac version of the Persian name Frahāt (modern Farhād). He was a subject of Shapur II (309-379 CE). He converted to Christianity and became a hermit in Edessa moving in time to Antioch, Turkey. He is thought to have been born ca. 280 A.D. and to have died (possibly a martyr ) ca. 345 A.D.
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Aphrahat (c. 280–c. 345; Syriac: ܐܦܪܗܛ, Ap̄rahaṭ,Persian: فرهاد, Arabic: أفراهاط الحكيم, Ancient Greek: Ἀφραάτης, and Latin Aphraates), venerated as Saint Aphrahat the Persian, was a third-century Syriac Christian author of Iranian descent from the Sasanian Empire, who composed a series of twenty-three expositions or homilies on points of Christian doctrine ...
Dec 12, 2021 · Early Syriac Literature, by Sebastian P. Brock, in 25 bookmarked and searchable pdf pages, from Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature (Cambridge,...
Jul 1, 2009 · The translation did not appear. cf. New Schaff-Herzog encyclopedia of religious knowledge. ... Be the first one to write a review. 11,161 Views . 9 ... PDF download ...
Jul 2, 2011 · He wrote 26 sermons, and a selection was included in the Ante-Nicene Fathers series so is online. But few people even know there is a complete translation, made in Kottayam in India a few years ago and available in two volumes from the St Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute at $25 a vol.
Christ is the “herald and apostle of the Most High,” to whose words Christians will attend so as to become “children of his mystery” ()ܒ ̈ ܐܪܙܗ.66 He is the key to knowledge. For Aphrahat Christ functions as a presumption and basic control for learning, interpretation, teaching, and practice.67 This means, first of all, that ...
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Jun 18, 2023 · references to spirit: “she says”, “body which preserved her”, and “asking. that the body be added to her.”. Both the “animate spirit” and the “heavenly. spirit” are immortal ...
