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- Aphrahat (Greek: Ἀφραάτης; Latin: Aphraates) (c. 270 – c. 345 C.E.) was an Assyrian author of the fourth century from Persia, who composed a series of twenty-three expositions or homilies on points of Christian doctrine and practice.
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Aphrahat's mode of biblical interpretation is strikingly similar to that of the Babylonian rabbinic academies of his day. His position within the church is indicated in Demonstration 14, in which Aphrahat appears to be writing a letter on behalf of his synod to the clergy of Persian capital, Ctesiphon - Seleucia on the Tigris .
Aphrahat (Greek: Ἀφραάτης; Latin: Aphraates) (c. 270 – c. 345 C.E.) was an Assyrian author of the fourth century from Persia, who composed a series of twenty-three expositions or homilies on points of Christian doctrine and practice.
Who but the priests and Pharisees who did not build a sure building, but were overthrowing everything that he was building, as is written in Ezekiel the Prophet: -- He was building a wall of partition, but they were shaking it, that it might fall.
Aphrahat (c. 270–c. 345) was a Syriac Christian author of the third century from the Persian / Sasanian Empire. He is also known as the Persian Sage. His surviving work is a series of twenty-three expositions or homilies on points of Christian doctrine and practice known as the Demonstrations.
Though it is not explicitly titled Against the Jews, as other pieces attributed to him are, this Demonstration is written as advice to an imagined Christian friend who seeks to answer several objections supposedly raised by Jews about how Christians speak of Jesus.
Oct 11, 2010 · Among the earliest known sources from the Persian Church, the 4th-century Demonstrations of Aphrahat reflect a form of Christianity much closer to its Jewish roots than contemporary Western forms. Their mix of ascetic instruction, polemic against Judaism, and theological reflection provides an invaluable glimpse into this otherwise poorly ...
The writings of Aphraates consist of twenty-three "Demonstrations", or homilies on moral and controversial topics. The first twenty-two are alphabetical, each beginning with one of the Syriac letters in alphabetic order, and may be divided into two groups according to the time of their composition.
