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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...

life: like a grain of wheat, they sowed it in the depths, so that it would sprout and raise up many with it.71 (2) Come, let us make our love a great, common censer. Let us offer up our songs and prayers72 like incense to the One who made His cross a censer to the Divinity,73 and offered His blood on behalf of us all. (3) The Most High bent low to earth-dwellers and distributed His treasures to them. And although the needy approached His humanity, they received the gift from His divinity. Thus,
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