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This volume presents for the first time in the Fathers of the Church series the work of an early Christian writer who did not write in either Greek or Latin. It offers new English translations of selected prose works by St. Ephrem the Syrian (c. AD 309–373). The volume contains St. Ephrem’s Commentary on Genesis, Commentary on Exodus, Homily on Our Lord, and Letter to Publius. The translators...

2. After [God] performed for Moses the signs he requested, [Moses] also asked his Lord to loosen his tied tongue. “I have never been an eloquent man, neither yesterday, nor the day before yesterday. And since the time that you spoke with me, there has been no change in my stammering.”70 (2) His Lord said to him: “You will become great by that which makes you small, so that you will become an eloquent prophet for the God who is silent. I will be with your mouth, not to loosen your tongue or improve
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