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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...added a third vol., Paris, 1618. The 3 vols were reprinted, but less correctly, Paris, 1G38, fol. A better edition has long been desired. See Cave, Histor. Litter., and Schroechh, Kirchengesch., vol. xiv., p. 3-147.--Tr (20) An elaborate account is given of him, by Jos. Simon Asseman, in his Biblioth. Oriental. V&ticuia, torn, i., p. 24, &c. The English published several of his works, in Greek, at Oxford by Edte. Thwaites, 1709, fol. The same were published in a Latin translation by Gerh. Vosstus, Rome, 158997, 3 vols, fol His works were published in Synac, a few years since, at Rome, by Sleph. Euod. Asseman. Six volumes in all; vol. i., ii., iii., Gr. and Lat., 1732-4346; vol iv., v, vi., Syriac and Lat., 173740-43, fol.--Ephraim Syrus, a monk and deacon of the church at Nisibis in northern Syria, was born and spent his whole life in and near that city. When elected bishop there, he feigned himself deranged and absconded, to avoid promotion. He was a most ardent devotee of monkery, a man of genius, and a prolific writer. His works consist of essays and sermons, chiefly on the monastic and moral virtues, commentaries on nearly the whole Bible, and hymns and prayers. A few of his essays are polemic. AH his works were written in Syriac, and were so popular in Syria as to be read in public after the Scriptures, and being early translated into Greek, were held in high estimation in that age. It is said, his hymns and prayers are still used in the Syriac churches. He died A.D. 378. See Jerome, de Scriptor. Illustr, c. 115. Scnomen, Hist. Eccles., l. iii., c. 16. Theodoret, Hist. Eccles., ii., c. 30, and iv., 29. Schroechh, Kirchengesch., vol. viii., 255, &c., and xv., 527, &c. Milncr's Church History, cent, iv., ch. 21.--Tr. (21) Pamphylus, a pre...
