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This volume contains a translation of a collection of hymns of Christ, composed by Ephrem the Syrian (c. 306–373), the most famous and prolific of the fathers of the Syriac-speaking church.

Of all the wombs that contained Him, one womb sufficed: [the womb] of the Great One Who begot Him. The womb that contained Him, if it contained all of Him, is equal to the wonderful womb that is greater than [the womb] of His birth. But who will dare to say that a small womb, weak and despised, is equal to [the womb] of the Great Being. He dwelt [there] because of His compassion, and since His nature is great, He was not limited in anything.127 Not only the bare fact of the incarnation but also of
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