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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...

later carried on the sea to show that, if He could carry him over a threatening sea, He did not need to be carried by him on dry land. Our Lord visibly carried him on the sea to teach us that He was also invisibly carrying him on dry land. The Son came to the servant not to be presented by the servant, but so that, through the Son, the servant might present to his Lord the priesthood and prophecy that had been entrusted to his keeping.263 Prophecy and priesthood, which had been given
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