Given on his arrival in Qinnasrin and at his reception by the faithful of the city. Only the beginning of this homily was preached, when it was interrupted due to a question of municipal affairs and disturbances, and then it was suddenly resumed at the end. When the Great Moses ascended to Mount Sinai, […]
I am beginning a new project to produce an English translation of the Book of Councils by Severus, bishop of Aschmounain, from the 10th century. It was he who also compiled the History of the Patriarchs, and composed the Lamp of the Intellect. This passage is the introduction to his work, the Book of the […]
Summary This is a translation from French of a Greek manuscript containing the History of the Egyptian Solitaries. This post contains the French translator’s introduction, and the first of the Apothegmata. Of course many or most of these are known to us. But I want to have a translation of these texts that I have […]
Text Concerning Mary, Holy Mother of God and Ever Virgin. When I want to focus my attention on the Virgin Mother of God and touch simply on the thoughts that concern her, at the beginning of my steps it seems to me that a voice comes to me from God, and sounds loudly in my […]
Summary This translation into English is of the introductory article and the text of the Presanctified Anaphora of St Severus of Antioch. It was publsihed in French in 1919, and I have translated it here into English. A Presanctified Liturgy is one in which a chalice of wine is consecrated by a portion of the […]
Notes This is a part of a discourse by St Severus of Antioch about the Virgin Mary. He especially describes the Virgin Mary as Prophet, Apostle and Martyr. This text has been translated from the French translation. I believe it may be the first English translation. The Translator from the Coptic, E. Porcher, says… The […]
Summary The translator of this text from a 17th century Arabic manuscript notes that it is in two parts, a homily and an apocalypse. He adds… The sermon aims to condemn all relations with others and especially the use of the Arabic language (21-23-25, 28). to give moral prescriptions (fol 25 – 26) which often […]
Summary This text is a translation I have produced of an article by the scholar E. Porcher from the French, published in the Revue de L’Orient Chretien in 1907. I believe this is the first translation into English. Text Patrologia Orientale, edited by Mgr. Graffin and M. Nau, published two Lives of Severus in Syriac, […]
Summary This is an interesting text, preserved in an Ethiopic manuscript. It describes something of the affairs in Egypt at time of the council of Chalcedon when violence was threatened against those who rejected the Tome of Leo. It describes a miracle performed at the prayer of St Langinos. I have translated it into English […]
Text The Plerophories That is, the testimonies and revelations that God made to the Saints, concerning the heresy of the two natures and the prevarication that took place in Chalcedon; they were written by one of the disciples of St. Peter the Iberian, namely the priest John of Beth-Rufin, of Antioch, bishop of Maiouma of […]