John of Ephesus. Lives of the Eastern Saints
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Having taken upon ourselves to trace, even if obscurely, a picture of the marvellous beauties of the saints whom I met in my youth and leave it for the general benefit, if only to the remnant who have been left in our days, I am reduced to marvelling greatly in my thoughts how it is that all these marvellous and giant-like men have been collected like clear pure wine, and the world has been reduced to disgusting dregs clouded with evil matter, and we lay not these things to heart.
1. Life of Habib
2. Life of Za'ura
3. Life of John the Nazirite
4. Lives of Abraham and Maro
5. Lives of Simeon and Sergius
6. Life of Paul the anchorite
7. Life of Abraham the recluse
8. Life of Addai the chorepiscopus
9. Life of Mare of Beth Urtaye
10. Life of Simeon the Bishop
11. Life of Harfat
12. Lives of Mary and Euphemia
13. Lives of Thomas and Stephen
14. Life of Abbi
15. Lives of two monks
16. Life of Simeon the mountaineer
17. Of a stranger who would not give his name
18. Of a monk who left a monastery without being released
19. Life of Zacharias
20. Of a monk from the same convent as Zacharias, and about sound training
21. Life of Thomas the Armenian
22. Lives of Addai and Abraham
23. Life of Simeon the Solitary
24. Life of John of Tella
25. Life of Hephaestopolis
26. Life of Thomas of Damascus
27. Life of Susan
28. Life of Mary
29. Life of Malkha
30. Life of Elijah of Dara
31. Lives of Elijah and Theodore
32. Of a monk who stole
33. Life of Hala
34. Life of Simeon the scribe
35. Of the Amidene monasteries
36. Life of Mare the solitary
37. [Missing]
38. Life of Aaron
39. Life of Leontius
40. Life of Abraham the presbyter
41. Lives of Bassian and Romanus
42. Lives of Mari, Sergius, and Daniel
43. Lives of four deacons
44. Life of Tribunus
45. Life of Isaac
46. Life of Paul of Antioch
47. Of the refugees in Constantinople
48. Lives of five patriarchs
49. Life of James [Jacob]
50. Lives of James and Theodore
51. Life of Kashish
52. Lives of two Antiochenes
53. Life of Priscus
54. Life of Caesaria
55. Lives of John and Sosiana
56. Lives of Peter and Photius
57. Life of Theodore the castrensis
58. History of the monastery of John Urtaya
Appendix: Spurious life of James [Jacob]
Appendix: Translation of the relics of James [Jacob]
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/W3t' U. GIUFFIIN
F.
NAU
PATROLOGIA ORIENTALIS TOMUS DECIMUS SEPTIMUS
I.
_
E.
W. BROOKS.
John of Ephesus. Lives of the Eastern Saints II.
_
S.
E. Ms'
PETIT.
L.
ÖOCUMENTS RELATIFS AU CONCILE DE FLORENCE. yii-xxiv III.
—
:
(1).
DoClinieiltS
QEuvres aiiticonciliaires de Marc d'Ephese.
RENE BASSET. Le Synaxaire auabe jacobite. V. Les mois de Baounah, Abib, Mesore
IV.
_
S.
et
jours comp leinen faires.
GREBAUT.
Les Miracles de Jesus. Miene les xxi-xxx.
FIRMIN-D1DOT ET
PARIS IMPRIMEURS-EDITEURS
C",
LIBRAIRIE DE PARIS, 56,
1923
RUE JACOB
Go
JOHN OF EPHESUS THE
OF
LIVES
SYRIAC
EASTERN SAINTS
TEXT EDITED AND TRANSLATED
BY E.
PATR. OR.
—
T. XVII.
—
F.
1.
W. BROOKS
Nihil obstat. Parisiis,
R.
die i" maii 1923.
GRAFFIN.
PERMIS
D'IMPRIMER
Paris, le 1
er
.1.
mai 1923.
LAPALME, v. gen.
INTRODUCTION
was hardly known except from
Until 1853 the narae of John of Ephesus
scattered
extracts from
references in
Dionysius and other
so-called
the
rd part of his Eccleauthors published by Assemani; but in that year the 3
siastical
History
followed by
J.
was published
ischer Kirchenhistoriker (Leiden,
was published
Cureton's text
German
translation by
Beatis Orientalibas
de
J.
W.
Oxford by
at
at
v.
Ephesos der J stB syr-
1860 an English translation of
In
1856).
Oxford by R. Payne Smith, and
M. Schönfelder
at
in
1862 a
Munich. Finally the Commentarii
and fragments of the
History appeared in tom.
Cureton, and this was soon
pamphlet Johannes Bischof
P. N. Land's
2'" 1
part of the
Ecclesiastical
of Land's Anecdota Syriaca at Leiden in 1868,
II
and a Latin translation of the same by van Douwen and Land was published at
Amsterdam
Since that time however two works have appeared
in 18S9.
which are invaluable
for the
purpose of enabling us to Supplement John's
published works and correct his text, M. Nau's analysis of the 2 the history from the so-called Dionysius in/}. O.G., the
first
1899,
two volumes
1901)
\ and
Duchesne
L.
work
the shade by the great in
M. Chabot's edition
p.
part of
455, (1897), and
of Michael the
Syrian (Paris,
2 Other studies of our author* have been published by Land
'.
H. G. Kleyn
of
II,
nd
'
of A.
but
;
all
these have
now been thrown
,
into
Dyakonov, Ioann Efesskiy (Petrograd, 1908), a critical aceount of John's life and
which 402 pages are occupied by
works, and
use
füll
and Michael.
In
chronology of bis
is
made
life
new
and of the
an almost insoluble puzzle 1.
of the
Information derived from 'Dionysius'
consequence of John's careless methods of writing the
;
and
it is
facts
which he records appeared
not the least of Dyakonov's
many
to be
merits
Some fragments are also preserved by Elijah of Nisibis (C. S. C. 0., a 2. De gedenkschrißen c. een Monoph. uit de 6 ° eeuw (K. Ak. v.
tom. VII, VIII).
—
le Reeks, Dl. v, Verslagen en Mededeelingen; Afd. Letterkunde, 3 3. Een buk of het godsdienstig leven in de oostersche Kerk Amsterdam, 1888). d. 6 ie eeuw (Theol. Studien, VII, p. 229. Utrecht, 1889); Bijdrage tot de Kerkgeschiedeniss v. het Oosten gedurende d. 6da eeutv {Festbundel aan M. J. De Goeje. Leiden, 1891). 4. Jean dAsie. Memoire lu devant les 5 Academies le 25 oct. 1802 {Journ. Ofpciel, n" 299, p. 5200). I take this ref. from Dyakonov, but cannot find the
Wetenschappen,
—
p. 237.
—
work.
'
INTRÖDUCTION.
|V
L'vJ
of the ^ hole subject he has succeeded in tl.at by a laborious investigation In a few places I am obliged to differ from bringing order out of cliaos. upon bis work (I have not him; but in general mv chronology is based bis name every time), mentioning by space to'oceupy thought il necessary the necessity of attempting spared been have to indeed thankful am and what seemed to be an impossible task. was born about 507 of Kphesus (so called from bis titular bishopric) I
John
for ecclesiastical purposes
which
neighbouring monastery of the
in the
Maro's
15, after
deatli,
he
stylite
moved
Armenia IV,
as
the province of Mesopo-
was united with
tamia of which the capital was Amida, and
age of
known
afterwards
in the territory of Ingila in the territory
the age of 3 or 4
at
Maro
was placed At the
Ar'a Rabtha\
at
monastery founded by John
to the
during the ürtaya at Amida', the mtfnks of which, having been expelled Mama persecution of521, were then residing in the deserted monastery of
The archimandrite Häzim, where they remained 5 years, i. e. tili 526 \ eh. given in 58 seems to have at this time was Sergius', who from the dates 7 in 522/3 placed be may migration died in 523«, so (hat the author's at
.
Aller other wanderings the monks were tinian to return to
8
Amida
precedmg year John had been ordained
In the
.
end of 530 allowed by Jus-
at the
deacon by the exiled bishop John of Thella (Constantina) \ The quiet life and he frequently in the monastery seems however not to have suited him, hermits; in 532 celebrated and monasteries other travelled about to visit he aecompanied bis friends Thomas and Stephen to Antioch "\ and in 534 undertook a journey to Egypt, and in 535 visited Constantinople ". At the end of 536 or beginning of 537 the patriarch Ephraim of Antioch followed up the final condemnation of the Monophysites at the synod of 536 by a 'descent In
the Käst',
when
Thuthe
to Thella d
the
W.
region lying
in the
of
they were drite 1.
seems 4. Cli.
.iiel
—
5.
Cli. 58.
'Zach. Uli.', vui,
mixed Syrian and Armenian populaüon; but lngilene
a
ä.
—9.
Dyakonov,
6.
They were
Cli. 24.
p. 28, n.
1G0).
p'its the
Egyptian journey
10.
-
in
in exile I'.
207.
—
2. P. 64.
p. 38, n. äl. i>:
—
1
yrs. 1.
I'.
-
3. 1'.
- 7.
See
and returned 209 seen.
1),
84; see also eh. 51. p. 83, n. in Ind.
211.
535, but himsclf notefe that, since there
see Byz. Zeitschr., XII.
13.
p.
p.
294; 'Zach. Rh.',
Ch. 35;
cf.
eh. 58
it
49), \,
l
;
and Land,
must have been before that time. Vit.
Monoph.
p. 295.
C
S.
('.
(>.,
tom.
—8.
Gh. 35;
IX (Dyakonov,
Dyakonov is
(7
— 12.
XXV
(p. 47)
no mention of
the ecclesiastical revolution that followed the patriarch Timothy's dealh
Land,
this time
the
•">:>'.)
have been predominantly Syrian.
:i.">.
and
let alone,
bulkofthem, headed by the archimanincluding onr author, came to the territory of Claudias on
This was inhabited by to
the extreme limit of the
at
Hut there also they were not
dispersed; hui in
Abba
.
Amida, and on being expelled
thenee came to the monastery of the Poplars
Amideiie territory ".
They then removed
2
monks were again expelled
Feh. 535;
Gh. 35, 58;
(11),
p. 65,
-
INTRODUCTIOX.
[vj
the Euphrates
Thence
1
.
to Constantinople about
manently returned.
540 John, perhaps following Abba,
in
removed
time,
tliis
made
In 541 he
went
the autnrnn of the year he
v
a second journey to Egypt,
beginning-, and thence to Mesopotamia, and
The date
Constantinople. topolis
fixed
is
performing ordinations
in
by
Asia Minor
dore were appointed for that purpose In 542 John
pagans
in
donian
was
in
just
returned through Syria to
that he
tlie fact
and
where the plague was
Palestine,
to
iled
-\vlio
and never per-
to the capital,
3
for in
,
met John
Hephaes-
of
542 James and Theo-
'.
selected by the emperor for the task of Converting the
Asia on condition that he should convert them to the Chalce-
faifch
8
Probably however he did not wholly neglect the oppor-
.
when James Burd'ana passed
tunity for propagating Monophysitism, for,
Among these was John was made bishop of Ephesus, the metropolis of Asia 6 whence he is often called 'John of Asia'. The date of bis consecration may be gathered from the fact that he was consecrated at almost the same time as Kashish of Ghios 8 who, having begun travelling with John, continued to travel for 13 years, and then lived 5 years in Chios before being made bishop Now the travelling must apparently have begun between 540, through Asia Minor, he consecrated seven bishops. himself, wlio
,
,
7
.
when John
monastery, and 542,
left his 8
the pagans
,
and
when he undertook
this brings the consecration to 558-60,
bably be fixed to 558
9
He was
.
still
and
the mission to
should pro-
it
a deacon in 541, for he officiated as
such at the ordinations perl'ormed by John of Hephaestopolis, and the date of his presbyterate
is
unknown.
There
is
nothing
to
show
that he ever
resided at Ephesus; and after the death of the patriarch Theodosius in 566
he became the acknowledged head of the Monophysites
Constantinople,
in
where many Syrians had taken refuge under the protection Theodora and tinian,
of the
empress
her death (548) continued to enjoy the favour of Jus-
after
who encouraged them
to
come
he might
to the capital in Order that
10
bring pressure to bear upon them for the purpose of eifecting a union leave the Monophysites in Syria without leaders.
and
In this objeet he failed;
and, though his successor by using more violent measures effected a tem-
porary union (571)",
it
Ch. 58; see
loc.
1.
p. 62).
—
konov
(p. 81)
5.
n.
is
ad
supposes
It
it
Land,
C,
II,
—
11.
—
GP.,
310.
p.
p. 482.
is
H. E.,
was
in
that 540,
J.
the
—
--
have begun between
may be added to
See ch. 25.
to
that he
monastery and went 10.
2.
he does not note that
no evidence
on ch. 50.
—
Mich., p. 287; H. 0.
tion to 555-8; but
There
n.
was repudiated by
3. 0.
537"
eastern Monophysites, and
Ch. 25.
Ch. 50.
— —
Ch. 50 (Dyakonov,
4. 7.
and 540, and
Ch. 51.
— 8.
fixes the
states that the travelling
was
in
the
West between 535 and 540. when J. (and probably Kashish also)
the
Dya-
consecra-
-
West. 9.
See
left
the
the most likely time for the travelling to have begun. I,
24.
INTRODUCTION.
v,
the division between East and
which John
West
eventually led to a scliism (575)
found on the opposite side to
is
however did not
last
[vi]
liis
'
in
The union
hero James'.
even in Constantinople, and the Monophysites suffered His history ends in 585, and
frequent persecutions as long as John lived.
3 but with he probably died in 586 after a year spent in prison at Chalcedon the last 18 years of his life, which fall after the completion of the Lives of ;
Eastem
Ihr
we have
Saints,
For the
concern.
little
first
two years
of his
residence in Constantinople (540-2) he lived in the house of the patrician Probus 4 nephew of the emperor Anastasius, and after this, wheri he was in ,
were perhaps for a time in the palace of Ilormisda, 3 where many of the refugees were settled under the protection of Theodora " the in who Callinicus, chamberlain 546 542 and but at some time between 8 565 held the office of praep. sacri cubicuW, gave him a villa at Sycae (prothe capital, his quarters
;
bably that previously occupied by Mare the solitary,
which he turned
into a
monastery known as
which he was archimandrite
of
578
it
was
,0 ,
and
'
the monastery of the Syrians
was
this
died in 542/3) 9
who
',
his head-quarters until in
confiscated by the patriarch Eutychius".
His earliest work was a history of the persecntion, which was probably written in 537
and does not now
,2 ,
an account of the plague of 541/2
He
exist.
,3
but
;
it is
Both
published as an independent work.
also wrote, probably in 544,
not certain that this
was ever
were doubtlessly incor-
of these
porated in the Ecclesiastical History, which extended from the time of Julius
Caesar to 595, and was divided into three parts
came down
we
to the time of
liave only citations in
Theodosius
of
a defence addressed to the
it
may
Eastem Synod
of 571 and written not later tlian 575
16 .
it
is
first
probably
Of part
1
more conveniently
be possible to restore
Another work, now in the
matter of the union
the
ways of
life
of the blessed
Eastem Saints'",
called, Lives of the
—
- 2. Cli. 49.
it
lost,
There remains the most charac-
works, the Histories concerning
teristic of all his
which the
'\ and the second to 571.
II
Part 3 exists almost complete.
almost entirely.
Easterns, or, as
',
Michael; but of part 2 large fragments exist, and
with the help of 'Dionysius' and Michael
was
'
—
—
3. Mich., p. 364 (Dyakonov, p. 165). 4. P. 157. by the fact that Leontius, who died before the Lives were wrilten (566 lived 20 years in the monastery (eh. 39). Dyakonov (p. 86), appy. confusing him with Aaron (ch. 38), makes him die in 560, and therefore throws back the origin of the monastery to Mare's lifetime. See n. at end of ch. 36. 7. Corippus, /.uns Justin/, i, 75 ff. For the site see p. 298, n. 2. 8. //• E\, ii, 41. 9. Ch. 36 and, for the namc, p. 187, n. 1. (see tit. 10. P. 298, ch. 36 init. 38, 39, 40, 41, 51- 11. //. /.'.. / c. 12. Seech. 35, 2'"' note. 13. Land, p. 325 (Dyakonov, p. 168). /•'.,
1. //.
5.
Ch. 47.
—
iv.
6.
1.;.
The date
is
fixed
,
—
—
—
—
,
,
—
most likely that he would end part 1 at where Socrates and Theodoret end, but the evidenee adduced by Dyakonov 179 is to me unconvincing. Dyakonov, ]). 169). 16. //. /•„'., n, 6 17. Lives is
l't.
//.
.'•.'.,
i,
.!;
Mich., p. 377.
15.
It is
the point p.
the easiest designation; bul
—
many
are only detached aneedotes.
•
;
INTRODUCTION.
[vn]
vn
58 short lives or stories of hcrmits and others with whom the author was contempprary, after the style of Palladius and Theodoret, but containing more ofthe personal element, and including lives not only of obscure ascetics but also of
men who played
chapters on
a part in history
Monophysite
besides a few more general
'
2
This seems to have 566 \ and amplilied in 567 \ and again in 568*. We have one ms. only which contained the whole work (1) Brit. Mus. Add. 14647 (A), written in 688 in a good estrangelo hand. This ms. consists of 20 quires in
life
been written
circles in bis time
.
in
:
of (normally) 10 leaves each, the
sl
l
being marked with the number of
leaf
the quire in estrangelo, and the next four with the letters
o, u
and
;,
,
oi
the last five leaves, being the other halves of the folded sheets, needed no
There are lacunae
numeration.
after
no numeral, and the 2 Dd quire begins after f.
2,
f.
and one each
rd 13, and, the 3 quire
after
and
3
f.
beginning
at
2,
f.
at f.
f.
and
3,
f.
6,
f.
There
5.
5; and, since
f.
f.
another lacuna after
is
4 lh quire
The
14, 2 leaves are lost.
and the 3 rd quire therefore contained 9 leaves only. rently the scribe, perhaps by inadvertence, left a leaf unused. The begins at
f.
begins at
23
f.
6 th quire begins
3' d
at
f.
and 5" leaves are numbered o, u 1
4"',
,
The
44.
5"'
83)
is
the
is
2"'
1
leaf of the
1'",
1
the 15"' quire,
which begins
no numeral, and there
earlier
must include
f.
120, there
we know
that
ends at
it
136
f.
of eh. 41 does not appear in the narrative, the
at the
-
7 .
all
The missing
its
text.
1.
Ch.
Ch. 35, 47, 48, 49, 58
39),
58
2, 10, 24, 25, 2G,
tit.
illegible.
—5.
^-
7.
portions are parts of eh.
Ch. 58
4, all eh.
48, 49, 50.
fin.
Dyakonov,
(f.
—
135 6.
p. 363.
V
— a).
2.
is
2"'
1
f.
123.
carefully
Gh. 37 has
in the
1,
heading
the beginning
26 except
chs. 27-29, all eh. 30 except about
3.
the
and the
end of that chapter has perhaps
end of eh. 3 and beginning of eh.
beginning,
is
or 2 after
1
The ms.
r° a.
;
also been omitted
In
cannot have covered less
121, and
f.
been omitted by the scribe and, since the Simeon mentioned
of eh. 2, the
124
f.
89
122 has
f.
7 leaves are lost,
not often necessary to depart from
is
f.
Part of the text here lost can however be
at least 3.
rest is complete, but our text it
121,
f.
123, while
f.
After
90, 2 leaves are lost.
a lacuna after
is
than 5 leaves, so that 5 or 6 are lost after
written, and
f.
two lacunae
in these
supplied from D; and from this
The
the blank leaf in quire 3,
missing, and the next leaf
quire begins at
another lacuna after
is
Hence
17"' quire.
ofthe
leaf
at
quire
and the
»'', ,
so that 11 leaves are here lost.
12"'
another lacuna; and, as the
5' b
quire therefore contained 11 leaves; and
we may perhaps suppose that the scribe found and tacked it on here. The 10"' quire is wholly (f.
Appa-
;
33, the
3 has
follows that 3 leaves are lost
it
|
of a leaf
of a leaf at the
-;
Ch. 35, 47, 58, and the latter half of eh. 20.
—
4.
Probably the
Ch. 31 6"'
fin.,
35
fin.,
was numbered
48, 51 init. o,,
(cf.
but the mark
ch. is
INTRODUCTIOX.
viii
[vm]
end, the end of eh. 33 and beginning of eh. 34, the
some
Several other mss. oontain
These are
7.
13,
18,
19,
(B),
written in 875, whieh at
I'.
36,
and 40, which are also
in
and Mary
the lives of Susan
order,
The writing
probably because
was
it
l'ading, a later scribe
did not ink over the letters, but spaced
them
wrote
semicursive, and,
over; but, since he
it
and
three having
last
is
afresh, he often
remains of the original writing show,
(he
ff,
A, in
and an extract
11
eh.
161
which are
belöw),
22
seems
the
to
word
wrong place
I
have not
is
missing
in
if it
A,
is
12"' cent.,
of the
resembles that of B,
and the peculiarities
B and
II;
but for brevity's
meaning
to assert that
Paris Syr. 234 (P), of the 13'" cent.,
but the latter part of eh. 2"'
1
4
hand, but
is
added under belonged
tlic
line in I)
to the line
(f.
below.
336
v°)
defec-
is
have been most carelessly written.
^^., is
as
.
conclusion of eh. 33,
text
in eh. 18,
the original of
1
r")
(G), of the 9'" cent.,
fll),
for the Its
'the scribe of B' without
(f.
125
r",
Add. 18814
the only authority.
is
121
has been written over again by a
read and
difficult to
''
text
(7)
171 v°, 157 v°),
(f.
(f.
255
the reading is not older than
contained chs. 3 and
copy
variants.
ils
may In' seen from a comparison B may perhaps be derived from
sake
111
to be a
very It
is
and inserted
IXTRODUCTION.
[,x]
ix
bad a State to photograph, and I owe the text to a copy taken long gl ago by M. Nau which he kindly sent to me, and of which M GrafTin and of eh. 4 P is the beginning collation for me. For obtained new a Nau M. in too
the only authority.
Land's text does not claim to be a is fairly
no doubt misprints) remain.
Hardly any suggestions
made; but
many
of
Douwen and
in v.
but
critical edition;
aecurate, though
with the mss. by Wright, and
was
it
many
collated
errors (some
emendation are
for
Land's translation are 2ipages of emendations,
which come from Professor Nöldeke
A
'.
large
number
of these
are actually in the ms.,
and of the others many are of great value
restoration of the text.
The
A Land
parts defective in
mss. in which they arefound, but did not give variants where
where
A
for the
supplied from other
A
exists, and,
does not exist, gave the text of one ms. witliout recording the
variants of others, except that in the
life
of
Susan
(eh.
27 below), which he
The existence of P Hence the beginning of eh. 4, which is in P only, edition; and the life of Susan is given in the paraphrastic
published from B, he gave a few of the variants of E.
was unknown is
to
him 2
absent from his
text of
B
.
E \
instead of that of the more faithful
V.
Douwen and
translation generally reproduces the original accurately; but in
they have misunderstood the meaning, and, give
what they
when
there
believe to be the sense intended without
a difliculty, they
is
comment
Notes on the subjeet-matter are rare, and there
dation.
Land's
some places
is
or emen-
no attempt to
elueidate the chronology.
Michael
(p.
377) mentions this
number
stating the
as 54
".
work
This
of John, and gives a
list,
which
list
of the lives,
very corrupt, has been
is
emended by M. Chabot, in whose translation the number appears as 51, but üyakonov (p. 369, n. 75) notes that no. 42 in the list is our eh. 52, and that next '^e our J-'t-O' i s a corruption of vm-om-V 3 » an ^ lä tne t t e °^ *' ie eh. 53), which brings the total to 52; and, if we suppose that the scribe omitted Elijah (eh. 30) because Elijah and Theodore (eh. 31) followed, and '
'
(
James (eh. 49) preceded, we have 54, and 43, and the life of Malkha (eh. 29 the missing lives being chs. 10 \ 42, below). Among the lives mentioned by Michael is one of Cosmo, which cannot be identified with any existing life 6 and this life together with the James and Theodore
(eh.
50) because
,
1.
I
believe these are taken from a
them from
v.
review, but
I
have not the
D. and L. with mention of Nöldeke's name.
— 2.
he departs from his principle of transcribing the oldest ms. that J. wrote more, but says that
—
Land,
ref.
to
p. ix.
(Id., p. x).
—
it,
— 4.
and give 3. In this
He
implies
he himself transcribed or epitomated these 54
in
Dyakonov notes that in Mich. 's no. 7, where only ^=-i! is legible, we should not with M. Chabot supply 'Simeon' (eh. 10), since he is not called ia*M, in the heading, but 'Addai' (eh. 8). —6. M. Chabot identified ii with eh. 52, because a C. is
another work.
5.
mentioned there; but see above.
'
liNTRODUCTION.
x
Mary, and Malkha must have occupied chs. 27-29, which were quire of A, and eh. 37, which has been omitted by the scribe.
lives of Susan,
in the lost 10
Now
in B,
come
[x]
,h
where the
followthe order of A, the lives of Susan and Mary
lives
betwen our chs. 19 and 36, and, though
in that order
stated below, this does not prove that Mary's
life
reason
for a
was not the omitted
life,
it does prove that Susan's was one of the missing chapters 27-29, and that it Further the life of Mary begins with the words « Neither preceded Mary's.
then was the history of this holy Mary unworthy of admiration it
seems a
fair inference that
another woman's
life
from which
»,
preceded; and,
if
this is
two lives aeeepted, since there is Van Douwen and Land, knowing are either chs. 27, 28 or chs. 28, 29. nothing of Michael, and therefore knowing nothing of Cosmo, treated the Omission of eh. 37 as merely an error of numeration, and made the lives of
woman's
no other
life tili
eh. 54, these
Susan, Mary, and Malkha chs. 27-29, without binding themselves to the correetness of the order.
It is
however more
likely, as
Dyakonov
remarks, that the three women's lives carae together; and this
The great lacuna in A covered, will show that Susan's
by the following consideration. shown,
and an easy calculation
11 leaves;
cover about 4| leaves, Mary's about or 8^ leaves in
all,
26) except the
(cli.
we have
3-^
of a leaf,
j
first
(p.
371)
borne out as
I
life
have
would
and Malkha's about 3 leaves,
Thomas
Damascus Dara of a leaf there remain 2| leaves, i. e. for these two Now Thomas was a distinguished bishop, and is
so that for the whole of the
life
of
i of a leaf, and the whole of the
(eh. 30) except the last ^
lives
is
leaves.
life
of
of Elijah of
inserted here after John of Thella and John of Hephaestopolis as having
been concerned with them
and
their lives
in the
work
of ordaining Monophysite clergy
oecupy 34 and 4 leaves respectively.
It
2 ,
seems unlikely then
Thomas covered less than 3 leaves, and, even if we cut it wo have only of a leaf for that of Elijah, at the end of which Out of his practiees I have briefly set down these », which seems
that the life of
down
to 24,
John savs tu
«
-5
iniply a longer space than this
3 I
.
conclude therefore that a shorter
life
than Malkha's stood in this place, and that can only have been Cosmo's'.
Accordinglv
it
most probable that the
is
life.
Malkha's, und thal the lives of Susan, Mary, and
As
to Ihe order,
we have
the order in Michael
1.
'f.
a slight presumption that the three lives
is
Sc. Mary's and that which preceded, be
71,
eh.
liu.,
2.">
Dyakonov
(p.
ch.
370)
the C. of eh. 52; hat stated that he
36
tin.
would it is
chs. 27-29.
already seen that Susan's preceded Mary's, and
implied by the opening words ofthe p.
omitted by the scribe was
Cosmo occupied
,
eh.
—
life.
49
3.
fin.,
it
Susan's or Cosmo's.
—
in
lives
of considerable
in
This
is
2.
There are similar expressions
all
came
at p. 35,
lenglh.
identify the hcroine of the life with the C. of ch.
—
13 and
stränge that in that case John should in neither place have
was writing or
liad written
her
life.
INTRODUCTION.
[xi]
xi
If however we make The work naturally divides
the order given above'. tlilliculties arise
which the
:
I
(
)
life
eh.
two
portions, of
whom
1-35) deals with persons
earlier (chs.
Gonstantinople)
in
Amida 3
(2)
The
sepulchre built by Mare, and the
title
at
.
was
by
built
Mare
..
immediate sequel of Mare's
to be the
of
Aaron the pres-
...
from which
»,
he
36) describes the
(eh. «
who were
byter and the rest of the presbyters and deacons in the sepulchre that
1
of eh. 38 runs
knew
whom
whereas Malkha died
,
Mare
of
lif'e
2
time
after that
37,
the author
(most of them in the East) before 542, and the later with those
knew (mostly while he was
two
Malklia's itself into
it
afterwards laid elearly appears
Hence we must suppose that
life.
the Omission of a chapter has caused an error in the numeration through the scribjs
numbering the chapters consecutively without looking Dyakonov (p. 371) would make Malklia's
he was copying.
at the
ms. that
and
eh. 36
life
Mare's 37; but another dilliculty then arises, since the history of the Ami-
dene convents during the persecution in eh. 35 seems to wind up the
monastery of John Urtaya
part, just as the history of the
up the second part.
opening words of Malklia's
we were
,
in our convent
back
thought 5
to eh. 35,
and
;
it
before
Cosmo's
does not exist,
life
if
this life,
life
Once, when
«
life
»
seem
were added as an
after-
banishment
being
at the
end of a volume, were
uncertain and of no importance, and
is
have preferred not to cause confusion by
I
Douwen and Land \ and have
altering the numeration of v.
Ieft
Malklia's
as eh. 29.
life
Of the whole 58
Thomas
of
1.
of
then that of
lives
Damascus
Mich, by calling eh. 47 a
Cosmo,
(50)
Caesaria
Possibly he put Th.
of
:
(46)
Theodora
Sosiana
might appear
CP.
to
difiicult
We
similar phrase oecurs
original,
G.
(eh.
It
might also have expected
—
however
may be
by Mich, are reduced is
meant is
lost,
of the lives
only insignificant which he puts
lives,
Susan,
(48)
Mary,
Mary and Euphemia to
(49)
(eh. 12).
speeify the others in order,
and added them
3.
in
Dyakonov,
at the
end.
—
2.
my
If
right (see notes there), that chapter
eh.
17 (p. 149)
that the. ms.
to 3.
—
clear from the
7.
'
XXXVI l'
list
to find eh.
p. 380.
— a
in
4.
life,
in
in the title of
in
25 in the 2" d part, but
See
life
p.
187, n.
which case the
Mare's
1.
—
it
A
5.
which much resembles
used by Mich, was derived from
and therefore did not contain Malklia's
misprint, as
women's
7
47), (47j
55), (52)
chronology of eh. 52
the natural sequel of eh. 24.
—
we have
be an exception; but his informant, the cleric John, lived with him
for 8 years.
Malklia's.
(eh.
as being empress, and
but accidenlally omitted the two sisters,
understanding of the
altogether
is
(30)
Theodora reckons
life
(eh. 54), (51) first
Cosmo
and Elijah
(26)
together at the end as follows
is
Malklia's
into
roay be conjeetured that the two parts were in two volumes,
Since however the order
.
was driven
it
and look as
and that the leaves containing lost
first
58 winds
possible therefore that the error oecurred earlier;
It is
but on the other band the
to refer
in eh.
life in v.
of contents and the note on p. 141.
A
or
its
lives omitted
D. and L.
is
a
INTRODUCTION.
x„
fragments, and the lives of Habib
Z'ura
(1),
t
Simeon the scribe
(2),
x "J
(34),
The rest, except in so far Priscus (53), and Caesaria (54) are defective. and a few illegible words scribe', the by been made have omissions may as -, is complete. Besides Michael the work was also used by the so-called Dionysius, who transcribes p. 141, I. 2-12 \ and linder A. S. 836 gives the following list of
in eh. 4
inen celebrated at the time
«
:
from the convent of
stylite
...
Surtha on the Tigris, Addai Jioäu»
disciple, Marc, [Paul] of
Fardaisa, John
the convent of
of
Zuknin »\
order and with eh. 7 omitted (nnless it
is
Abraham bishop
with
in
.Maro presided, the
an early ms.
5
lacuna after Marc); where
mentioned
(abstinent) to the
Abraham 58
in eh.
the Sfcdite
131 v°
(f.
S.
a gloss
names
he gives the following
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HISTORIES CONCERNING TUE WAYS OF LIFE OF THE BLESSED EasTKÜN-,
COMIMLED AND WRITTEN UV JOHN THE PILGRIM AND AT ONE TIME
A SOLITAIU
OF THE HOUSE OF [MaR John] OF AlMIDA IN THE FERVOUR OF DIVINE [zEAL].
When we
considered thc words
which he
his preaching to bis saints
oi'
our Saviour and Redeemer Jesus in
said, « Let
your light so shine before
men, that they may see your good deeds, and glorify your Father who heaven
»',
seemed
it
to
us that
tliis
is
is
the light of thc deeds and of the triumphs of his holy disciples should at tiines
arise
and be
in
not disagrqeable to his will, that
made known and appear among men,
as indeed
sense of his holy saying declares; and for this reason, although
all
the
we may
seen to be presuming to set foot in things that are too great for us, by the of his saying and the hope of his gift we have beeu encouraged to approach the task of compiling histories concerning their ways of Life and
power their
brave triumphs and
may draw, though 1.
Matih..
v,
the
Hi.
PATH. OR.
—
T.
characters of their good deeds,
obscurely, by
XVII.
—
!•'.
I.
means the
vile
that,
we
and common pigments of
r.
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»
JOHN OF EPHESUS.
2
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our poor vvords, the pattern of their likenesses for posterity, [and] leave
it
when they read and see their good deeds and marvellöus ways of life, hy tliis means we opine that two beneficial results will be produced, ne that when they see their good deeds they may also glorify their Father who is in heaven as it is written, and the second again, that, when the light of the narratives of their ways of life memoria] of our writings; so
in the
shines upon souls entangled error, they
may
imitate them, and to
Io
may attain to « Come enter,
they says since
I
in
be enlightened
their
to
the vanities of this world
by the
light of their
my
Father
» '.
ii
have seen and known and clearly learned
am conßdent
tation;
1
having
Matth., xxv,
34.
—
in
2.
I
deter-
hcroic and divine persons,
of bearing true witness without
lirst
,
and cover with silence the great and marvellöus virtues
that
I
condemns the man
not by the sentence of sin 2
not to conceal
I
call that
For these reasons therefore,
hear the apostolic saying that
mined and
and darkened by
triumphs and be eager
receive their patlerns in themselves, in order that
good and does
is
hat,
crowns, and hear with them the life-fraught
ye blessed of
dreaded even
who knows whai
l
formed James,
iv,
this resolution in
17,
my
fear
and without hesi-
mind, that, though
I
hear
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childhood
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whom was in whom some feil I
some time ago, and some during this time, and some are still men who have power to perform apostolir signs,
tributed and given 3
,
to
this
miracles, to that great
since
ways
of
life
withoul
and purity, to another ready sorrow and
another self-denial and perfect pilgrim
other distributions
illus-
to the blessed apostle's saying gifts are dis-
signs, to another beauty of heart
copious tears, to
'
the
aetions to the truth of which besides myself
,
them aecording
the
whom
long time and
for a
commit anv the of
of our time are also witnesses, aetions that
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in
part except those of
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of gifts, consisting in the
life,
beauties
one of them severally used to depict upon his person.
addition
that
each
These marvel-
He gives an aecount 1. Ms. om. — 2. This Statement cannot be taken llterally. Kalesh (ch, 41 who dted before he was born. 3. I Cor., xn, to.
—
in
of
Abraham
of
f.
a.
2
JOHN OF EPHESUS.
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D. and L.
thereforu
I
have
set
myself
to
bring
the
lo
record of narratives, while the spiritual beauties and great triumphs themselves, vvithout the
interposition of elegant language, are related bv their
which as
with
natural simplicity of hearl
is
written they glorified God',
and wo record the aclive manifestation of the ways of iliem withoul
Ornate diction and
and dismissing
all
life
lest
l>\
it
we
snil
their
liolv
of
images; which have no
whatever ofbeauty and adornmenl lying outside their
d
of every one
combinations of words, rejecting
worldly elegance outside the circle of these admirable
and divine beauties, 1
artificial
circle, as ncither
has the Giver of their beauties himself, since indeed they are not lacking
We
anything, which also enrich and enlighten others by their beauties.
in
begin therefore from
ihis
poinl
sai-.il>
h\
relating his histoiy
dence
in
their petitions on
strengthened them, that
is,
to
draw
the
picture of each
one of these
through (he help of their prayers and confi-
cur behalf, and hope
in
the
as far as our small strength
is
gift of hini
ning, through the strength that arises from grace; and at the head
Company we sei ihis greal ld man whom a high heavenbj life, whcre each is in Christ Jesus, well befits.
divine
I
I'-.
cxix,
:.
«Im
capable of attai-
place
a1
f
this
table in the
LIFE OF HABIB.
5]
5
•
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.o»ova.
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[6]
me
shall
also" lo liini
and
do greater than these signs which
whüia
tu those to
bringing these few things
(a
it
I
do
»
\ we leave this
has not been hard to believe his word,
small proportioa) to record for the glory of God.
mau tlierefore came from the district of Sophanene, and was trained bv a man who was liimself also great and holy and a worker of This divine man therefore was miracles, whose namc was Bar Nbyl. This holy old
before our times; and, inasmuch as his end preceded our days,
great old
man
liis
disciple
marvels which he used
omit
shall 1«.
men
in
;
who
perform, inasmuch as
whose ease the sight
mir haudwriting 2
sainl
to
and inany others used to
,
for this
reason
himself also again
was
we
teil
though
declared before that
of our eyes has not borne
we have
this
us about the great
we
witness
not touched the history ofthat
trained bv a divine blessed
man whose
name was Mar Dada; which things we have omitted to relate, in order to This teil only the things that concern this man who was our contemporary.
man also
I.
therefere
came from
came; and he John, XIV,
12.
2.
firsl
P.
a villagc called
Fvl
r,
from which his master
planted thal monastery, and then this blessed llabib
LIFE OF HABIB.
[7]
•
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power
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all
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parchments
and entreated him to forgive him.
who had
many
ass lieard
it,
his
tlie
fapcns),
Again
an ancient debt,
tliere
many
keenness
knees knocked
of the saint's curse slionld liglit
his
another village,
also used to plunder
joot
I..
when
lost
Jh
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because he saw his zeal and readiness and
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man
upon
lo
him.
liim
and brought them
was another years old
;
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'
Lo
rieb
and he
people; and they came and told the blessed
about him, and he set out to go
!
man
Habib
coming', inasmuch as he was not prepared to do good, he arose and tunk
parchments
the
the blessed
man
jrjfcpr/is),
heanl
il
i.
the deeds, and left him and fled. was distressed and said « Because
lliern
lel
fear
feil
:
1.
\i-
his will
was
God wills their deliverance, never see him again ». And the same night tliat man died, and 011 all who heard it. And the blessed man went on continuing
busy hiaaself greatly
rance
And when
e,
he
thus prepared to do evil toward these poor inen,
to
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in
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ofhis purpose.
also:
);
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•
A
)»~J\
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ch.jjl^
[8]
for
the poor
and
in
if
matters of debt-remission, becoming
his'
fame increasing.
Hnl
the wife
a delive-
ofthe man
LIFE OF I1ABIB.
[9]
.
i
)
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ft
X
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y-»..a.\o
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and
brought tliem to
took
children
his
tlie
all
their
parchments
blessed man, and tlms returned
y«pf?.;
tliein lo their
,
and
owners.
Again there was another man, and he kept ancient deeds some years old came and told the Saint, and they bröught him, and he went; and that because from his boyhood and down to his old age
against poor men, and they
he retained his humility and obedience which so that a
widow
woman
or a poor
him on any business whatever, he refuse
to
When
did not
itself also
distinguished him,
man who begged him to go with as heing a man of high reputation
satisfy him,
go, hut, in order to
withont delay.
'
or poor
wonld go with him at once to that man, inäsmuch as
thereforc he had gone
Satan had fdled that man's heart, he was roused to fury against him, saying, «
Will not this fellow go and
lie
man heard
these tliings he
having prayed and said if
sit
comes out and wanders about
thou knowest that
forgive this of thy
come 1.
man.
name and
I
:
was «
came
And for the
his
monastery and be quiet?
and drink
distressed,
».
And when
and he returned
Lord who knowest what
is
for see!
the blessed
to his
monastery,
in the hearts ol all,
out in this business in order to eat and drink,
again,
if
thy gface knoweth that
it
is
for the sake
sake of the deliverance of the wrongcd (hat
out, in order that this
Sic s\r.
in
to eat
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f.
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a\._Q.».
9
same thing may be made known
to this
I
have
man and
3
;
JOHN OF EPHESUS.
10
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r.
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b.
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everyone
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^
and
*icu^I^s
L>Ss
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mau
.
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',-=•
Otki^A
otA
jooi
jlj/
1^»/*
knoweth how
V-=»
became withered, one
Jj-q-soa
^^a
);«
Then Grace same dav
».
man; and
.p&l
-.-«O^.
^^C^
that
üf his eyes
And, when he understood that
into grievous affliction.
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la>o^
^J?
one of his arms, and the whole of his side, and one of his feil
JJ /
Jjlso^
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requital for the old
half of liim
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>
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^
v
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hini as tliv grace
do with
exacted forthwith f'rom the the Lord smofce liim,
o»
).
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d-^_äo yoouuC^ö/
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to
Jjo^j
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•
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001
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[10]
it
and
and he
feet,
was
a sen-
tence emanating from justice, which had overtaken him of on aecount of his
blasphemy, he sent intercessors to the sainl
to
ask him to pray for liim; and
he on his side did not withhold his kindness from him, his disciple
whose name was Z ura;
of the gift of the
power
of
Elisha, so that after
disciple
Tliis
himself.
man
011
whom
reverse
forlli
immediately sent
prayer like the blessed Elijah upon his him he became even more distinguished than liis
therefore he sent, saying
:
«
Go,
Bat
llie
againsl him, that he shall depart from
lifo
part will not close the door, and pray for him.
has gone
luit
from that time he poured part
my
son;
we
for
and this we cannot
;
And, when he had gone and prayed over him, immediately
».
soul departed from
was broughl about
liis
our
rest of the sentence
ln^
body, and he died, and withoul his consent a remission
for these injured
to subjeel to afflictions.
Ami
in
persons vvhomhe himself was prepared
conscqucncc
f
this fear
everyone
who häd
debtors of ancient Standing would remil the debt; and some ofthem broughl their
il
la
lo
the blessed
man
himself, and entreated
him
to
bless
them
LIFE OF HABIB.
[11]
.
vQj/ yV^J? »^ :oo-/
^-iöj
\cl±
\oo ^o-Do
JjL-O*
)^m\
U/
JlqJsj
.loot
^a^
^-o
(j-.fco;
Jjlso^-3
^V^''^
.loCH
U:sa£^
°°°* ^--ÄJ.*9LiOO -.ooot ^-.J^iö
^^io
.ooC^Jl^ oo» v3/j
11
otk^ojo otKiK-»; ^.. tvi *»
*-»/»
-J°
J-a-»
«^
Kiou
is
here
°°t°
V--^ °-£
v-jl^-.»
t3 •«****>
v^alaiia-cH; .6C^
lost.
while the fear and the terror of him went out thenceforth in every place And, as it is because he himself also travelled in all the districts of Syria. written in the blessed Job,
peace?
him
» ',
so
was
it
in this matter,
«
Who
hath contended with him and hath had
man, so that no one resisted and raised bis head again.
fulfilled in this spiritual old
and transgressed
his Orders,
2 There was again another rieh man in the eity of Maiferkat who was a old, and years several (ypaji.[jLaTeTov) banker fa>QO
OOOI
JlV-/
~Jo|
öiKaj&oi^o J-^a
IfcsjUL,
JV^?
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-»o«ij/ow^j -i^o/o öviok— o Jb/,
A r
t 12 !
JOHN OF EPHESUS.
12
>
,
,—
°°1-
1'»-=^
1°^
••
b.
^.j/o vÄ-au V-io/
1.
^-»;
.l-^-flo
An erasure
scave
-ota
-.>ö^;/;
oöi
001 .-oto^o».
follows:
—
2.
\-^?o ^3o .K-.JL*--;
ju_=>j
>J;
jJ
Ms. t-om: corr.
v.
D.
^a-Äioo
|ooi
ou^>.
and
I^OfJ^ 06.
-.J-a..»
Joot
la2S> Jils ^D
1.
While he was exerting
thanks to God.
ooi
his activity in the
ccitain persons l'rom thc counti v of the Persians heard of
il
same
city,
because he was
near there, and they broughl liini two women, one who was persecuted by a demon, and anöther who was harren of offspring, having been many years with her husband and ao1 having had children; and they continued entreating liim to pray for them. Bu1 he on liis side came up and made the sign
woman, and prayed, and
over the possessed
demon, and
lie
eise of the one said,
«
laid
an inhibition upon thal
immediately came onl of her, and she was healed.
who was
Go and keep guard over
next year lo! von
sliall
have
a
yourself,
son
».
that
And
you
in
her arms, and
si
I;
to
in the
the
and
at
iliis
and time
believed, and went
a son: and,
came
Bul
the sign over her
woman
that
awav; and she leeeived conception and bare passed, she took him
made
barren he prayed and
aller a
blessed
year
man
in
liad
his
monastery; and he baptized and blessed him; and she returned rejoicing and praising God.
Again there was spenl
min
and made
h
a certain
money upon
terrible
il;
havoc of
man. and he had
a
and
for
thal
vineyard; and,
the fourtli ynar, he sei forth and wenl
three
large vineyard,
and had
came down time came in
years running hail
wceping
when
to the old
thal
man. and continued
.1
LIFE OF HAB1B.
[13]
^
*.",_•
.Jj/
^jjjo
JjLsiojJ
omia\ ^v- ^
Jk~s>J
^j
t-a^'
LJL..1
(.^l^oi
.
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sk.j,.£>a3o
U
-'01
J.J_L>.
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f~»l
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L^a».\ —010^/
yV^o -.^io/o
Ms. with puinL--
son,
is
—
-1.
—
^erased.
-i.
/^S
Ms. oCoiaß-
liini.
«
No
and
let
«
Whereforc,
:
Sir,
I
know
not
»
to
him
:
Know
«
and see
own sins that things which But go make au von may repent. ».
Tliat
And the old And, when fhey had
ordered him, and made a particle of bread.
man went as man set qut and went, and offered the partaken and sat down to receive the
oblation there.
blessing aller their oblation, suddenly
cloud ascended in terrifying fashion, and came to the place; and this
perhaps so that God mighl
make
it
kuovvn
tliat
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the Lord heard the old man's voice; and that cloud passed away, and did not härm even one leaf in it; and lo! l'rom that time, through the power of the blessed man's prayers,
while havoc was made
Agäin they brought and he
laid
that vineyard remained without
of every thing round certain
ä
woman
it,
to
and
it
hail falling
in
it,
alone escaped.
him who had a demon
an Inhibition upon him, and he came out of her.
in her,
And
after
some years the old man feil sick, and was constrained to die; and his disciples came near and besought him to remove his inhibitiöns; and the And immediately blessed man removed all his inhibitiöns that he had made. And, when they said to that fiend retnrned, and appeared in that woman. him, « How have von presumed, when you were laid under an inhibition by the blessed Habib?», he said to them, « Las! evening he removed every Inhibition laid by bim, while
I
was standing
there, and
I
came
».
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they
him a message, « As for von. von And so ,,,. not al liberty lo dwell in a human being for ever and ever ». hewasagain expelled by the power ofGod's word. There was again another
came and
woman
in
harkod
nt
told the blessed
a certain
Cf. rh.
village
he sent
who had
a
mad demon
in her,
a
woman who
people like a noxious beast, and tore their clothes, and violently
assaulted manv, and, 1
man
".
when they brought
where a simllar *tory
1s told.
her to the old man, she continued
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the
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man
stretched out
hand, and made the sign over her; and he laid an Inhibition upon him
his
« In the name of the Lord you are barred from his creation » same hour he went out of her, and she was healed and that woman became quiet, while everyone wondered and gave thanks to Göd, There was again another poor widow woman, and she had been taught,
and said,
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the
;
the art of'drawing, and used to practise
and she used to teach pupils.
it
and labonr
And two
at
it
l'or
during which she had spent labour upon them, went away learned and dcfrauded her, and did not give her her fee. everyone
who was defrauded whether
holy Habib as to a deliverer of those to him, and informed him of her
of
little
or of
much had
who were wronged, And he wrote
affair.
her necessities,
of her pupils, after a long time
when they had And, because recourse to the
this
woman came
a letter to these
them not to make use of her art tili they But they acted presumptuously and treated the old man with contempt, and did not comply with his order, and they began to practise the art. And the same day the sentence for their presumption overtook them; for thetongue of one was seized with an impediment
pupils of hers the
same hour,
telling
paid her the fee for her labour.
so that she could not speak at
all,
and the arm of the other withered and
f.
a.
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made
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forgive them.
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fee to her,
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them
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ran carrying [that poor woman'a
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v.
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them
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him
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come
in;
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in liim.
these beasts, say to them
[in]
confidence in the divine
Go; and, when you have seen
«
a lond [voiee],
are not permitted
Habib the sinner [says that vou
'
to taste of
and
in this
village' ».
Company
the
to
thev
said
day acts that have
been recorded
aeglecting the
rest,
while
all
in
we comprise in the low who performed them,
Order to glorify him
of us
who
are at this time
the truth of the things that have been written,
each one of them, together with the blessed well,
among
w
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the
lirst
which blessed Z'ura, of
and the
men
will
of
Habib had marvellously run
also
power and miracles and signs and -•
end üf Chi
PA1R. OK.
—
in this
body
testify to
clearly
the disciples of the sainl as
compose
[began] vigorously to walk wbollv in the footsteps of tlie [old]
the
in
and have seen and know
niost eminent are Z'ura
whom we
'In-
a
and Hanau ya special
saint.
XVII.
—
F.
1.
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path of heroism, and of acta
mighty deeds, and deliverance
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persecutors came to lüm: and. since they did not find in his disposition a down chance of making him communicate with them, they broughl him
from
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saying,
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«
1
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tili
lie 1
had come down, he was moved with
go up
to
zeal
him who holds the royal authority,
him before our Lord Jesus Ghrisl concerning the persecution whole church, and concerning the distresses and the mockery of the
testify to
of the
saints in every place ».
With also,
this zeal the blessed
and he arose and took
man armed
himself and with trusi in Ins Lord
ten of his disciples, and
journeyed
to the royal
having also preceded city itself and arrived there, letters from the adversaries Information as to gave which days, of number small the blessed man by no his croinü' up, thino-s
by Dispensation of providence, in the same manner in which effected through Ahab without his knowledge, for, while
were also
was turning over his plans for killine- the zealous Elijah the greal man, sending as of his owd motion his envoys and his letters among foreign and display peoples with regard to his death, he was being made to celebrate he himself
the fact that he
was able
upou the
and was by
earth,
actually to bis
bind the lieaven
envoys proclaiming
so that ao rain
his
mighty ad
to
feil
the
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as tightly as he could in violent rage, and Struck himself
upon Ihe breast and and
p
-^^o
said, «
You
are apostates and corrupters, and the svnod
it from you any you wcre true men, God would show me a sign byyour hands. And he who anathematizes the synod contends with bis life ». On all this
is
true,
more, and.
I
will not consent to hear these things against
if
commotion taking place great
terror overwhelmed all tbe magnates; but tbe when he saw tlial lie bad decreed death against anyone who anathematized the synod, was kindled with zeal and liis beart became hot
blessed man,
within liim as
wrni
slraiglil
Lord
is
il
is
writlcn, and
anathematized nol
Ami, since you seek
a
Lord will not show you a
he
weiit out in violenl
man.
the blessed
him according
to
I'.ni
body
seized bis
fire
against him, and said
:
«
!
.
Ps.
1.
'
mit
'1
ihisremind
Z'ura.
3,
1.
i
—
sign, by believers signs are not required; a sign outside
you, but in your
rage, while threats after a
day tbe sign
the blessed man's saying,
2.
Christ our
only by us, but also by the angels of heaven.
human shape was
xxxu,
,
The synod which diyided
Sc. Justinian.
ofProc, Hist.
An
3.
Mich, i
and
who
seif »
bu1
the
And
.
which he asked appeared
for
in lhai
ool recognised in
—
own
so
were also being forged against
head, and his understanding was taken away; and
him
and immcdialelv he
1
him
i'epeats
in the story
he
was smitten upon
fearful
a ',
swelling covered
insomuch thal
Uns passage
in liis
rroni
nur
Ins wife,
text]
which there follows the monk
'
his face
is
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every place, and they openly hcld assem-
in
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And
the
Rome, while God continued
to
fame of the
work signs
and deeds of power llirongh him, and Lhe wliole city resorted to him, and
was made protector
he
of the poor as in
liis
were resolved by him before the king and '\i'i\
il.iy
he
was engaged
same
in the
country, while tnany great affairs
all
the Senators
si/wX-n-mwi),
contesl on behalf of the faith.
while After
man had been some time in the royal city, the man deserving of evil meinorv who had at lliai time been made patriarch in Home, whose name was Agapetus, was summoned by sinne cause, and went down tu the royal \ a man who was a grievous blasphemer, in comparison of whose lhe blessed
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bc found depicted anywhere, while he presumptuously promulgated his blasplieraies, which did not retard for him the reward that This man therefore, having been magnificently reeeived his labonr deserved.
nor her likeness
by the hing with much display, inasinnch as he was not aware of all the evil of his inind, when he had come in, inasmuch as he was annoyed by the brought a complaint about
reports of the blessed Z'ura, hing, saying, to turn the
Wherefore
«
world
r
is
the Syrian deeeiver
deeeption
to his
1
a
stubborn
man who
does not fear
zeal in the case of the blessed
man
And what can men d. But he, «
wish
lirst,
bis will, saying,
«
If
all
the
b.efore
do
in
to
the
lic
him?
knew
For he
show Ins me do to And countries ». order
you are stronger than
to
Let
«
he, do as
you
».
But
this
men and
man
Mich.
in Ins
arrogance without delay sent some of
the king's to the blessed
the other side 1.
him
I
aecused him saying,
him so that he will submit, or be expelled from the king gave
liim
here allowed by you
is
But the king, inasinnch as
»?
well the old raan's power, said to him, is
who
'
2
man
himself
(a
his
own
leading
large villa at Sycae
011
had been given him by the queen, and he was staying there
In bis sorceries'.
—
2.
Sc
of the
Golden Hörn.
A
f.
i"
b.
8
JOHN OF EPHESUS.
28
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disciples; für liiniself
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terms
:
here, or
I
in these
come
reinain longer in
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al
down
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was thc
t
days ofthe
first
against the blessed
kingand
come there
,_a_3o
at
».
When
his arrogance, telling
fast),
while thc prcsump-
mau by sending him
a
message
the patriarch' have ordered that either
once; and
h is country, unless
tnake accord wilh us
jeered
•
v£OOt^.^Q-»^. aa \
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all liis
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it
is
impossible
i'or
you
von
to
you do the king's Order and ours, and
ihe blcssed old
them
cpiilc
to
say
man
him,
to
«
heard these things,
We
have a law
lio
vdp.o?)
by our truo King, thal we arc no1 to receive anyone in these make answers fc-öapiceis) ins uch thal nur door is closed, aml accordingly we are nol free to answer either you or ho king. Bu1 waii for us tili the fiftb day of the weck when we sliall opcn the door, and whal God knows tobe right he will himself perform after we have opened between us. But for the presenl we will not voluntarily answer you; für you seek to acl wilh violence you know ». When lhal wretched mau learned these things, lie was filled wilh violent rage, and ordered ihc laid
höh'
for us
days, nor
;
l
il
il'
magistet to take excubitors and irons and bring
When I.
M.
ihal
man
as he
was ordered had taken
the blessed
man
the irons and
across.
embarked
in
a
LIFE
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promulgate
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into the ears of the king
bis
blasphemies openly,
and the people ofthe beretica
an Instrument
(opyavov) had been found Cor the spirit of and they had begun one and another to become drunk dregs, and he was forging threats againsl the believers everywhere,
their blasphemies,
on
l,is
foul
'nasmucli
as
happened
in
the fear of his case
the Assyrian,
,
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th 3 tonguc, save againsl
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God was not before
which was once
ll|s
whom
said
hast thou
the Floly
his eyes,
a
suddenly
thal
ofthe arrogance of mouth and lengthened
the case
opened
Hin
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f
tongue, and
in
ii
»
'thandcame down to his breast, makinga fearful sighl will, greai swelling, '"' was twi °c lanced in ii. while terror and trepidation
tha1
whosavvhimal
the sightof him.
And
seized all inthis torment and manifest sentence
roquital Cor his blasphemy he lingered tili the which the blessed man fixed as the term and said. "'
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threatened the Itlesscd
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accompanied by sliame seized
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liis
burial
the parLisans of
und perished
and
1 ,
fear
wretched man, and
llial
joy reigned over the believers everywhere, while everyone
was amazed
at
how God wrought this miracle in him. When the partisans ofthat wretched man could not by reason oftheir shame find whal to say, they devised a plan, saying, « Whereas on the day which Z'ura
the blessed man's words,
decreed for the patriarch he dicd, he used enchantments against him, and he died on gloritied,
tliat
same day
confess that
God had heard
against the blasphemer. blaspliemies, he prayed »
And
».
his voiec,
For,
and
when
and had awoken
said, as he
'The Lord awaked like a slecper and
used
a
lilvO 2 .
man
l.
enemics make lumult. and they
22 Apr. ncr. to Lib.
A. addressed a tetter to
Pont.
:
who
18
Mar
Jaffe\ sul
'/..
Pont, right.
'
/ach.
or indication of date.
—
Rh. 2.
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nx.
19)
anno
gives a similar accounl
Ps. lxxviii, 65, 66.
of his
seasons,
all
vvho hath shaken nff his
in ,
if
Lent. lie
storj ol
God; sincelo!
silcnl,
hate thee have
must have been20Mar.;but seep. 30,n.2.Verj probablythe whole in Lib.
al
Lord behold the blaspliemies
but this was Tuesday, and nol
Justinian ob
sentence
his
rcappviria
pray and say
to
presumption against thee, and 'Be not quid nor
tliine
willi
he heard the openness
wine, and smote bis enemics behind liim' of
were ashamed and God was man liiniself wonld
so these inen
and the believers rejoiced; and even the blessed
his
\
lifted
Eastei
died on is
a
up the head
A-as
23
Thurs.
Mar., and in
Lent,
ii
baseless and the date given
death but withoul
mention of
r
b.
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