Comments This interesting homily allows us to discover some of the attitudes of Severus of Antioch to the vulnerable and disabled of Antioch in his own time. It was the tradition that in the weeks before the Feast of Pascha there would be a collection of fabrics for the benefit of those suffering from leprosy […]
Translated from the French of F. Nau. Les canons et les résolutions canoniques de Rabboula, Jean de Tella, Cyriaque d’Amid, Jacque d’Édesse, Georges des Arabes, Cyriaque d’Antioch, Jean III, Théodose d’Antioche et des Perses. Ancienne Litterature Canonique Syriaque. Volume 2. 1903 177. He who buys fields from the Church, or who steals them for him, […]
Translated from the French translation of a Coptic manuscript. Revue De l’Orient Chretien. Volume 18. 1913 Believe me, many times I’ve seen this episode painted on a board. I have never been able to pass in front of him without shedding tears, so clearly is the artist’s art fixing him for us. Abraham, indeed, placed […]
Salvation through Christ and the return to conformity to nature. I don’t want you to ignore, brethren, that in the beginning, when God created man, he placed him in paradise with healthy and stable faculties in their natural state. But when he listened to his seducer, all his faculties were returned to an unnatural state, […]
On the parable reported in the Holy Gospel of Luke, whose subject is as follows: A man descended from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among brigands. And there is a reproach to those who, as is customary in the middle of the Lent, did not throw pieces of canvas to heal those who are tormented […]
This is a translation of the French text of the Book of the Councils by Severus, bishop of Aschmounain, of the 10th century. It is found in Patrologia Orientalis Volume 12. I am translating from the French edition of the Arabic text produced by P. Chebli, a Maronite priest, in 1905. Part I Know, blessed […]
This is a draft translation of a short work by Abū al-Faḍā’il Ibn al-‘Assāl, one of three brothers and scholars of the Coptic Orthodox Church of the 12th century. This family had produced as many as six generations of scholars and this short theological work on the Holy Trinity and the Incarnation expresses the knowledge […]
1. Once more it is the feast of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ, and once again it is the restoration of our race. He was born for the first time according to the flesh, and he shared in my manner of birth, that which is without seed and without sin, and the one who […]
On the dedication of the Holy Cross and on the anniversary of the earthquake that took place. If, the elders celebrated the feast of the first dedication for the temple of Jerusalem, that which the wise Solomon built and which the Holy Spirit, speaking through the prophet David, had prefigured, according to the account which […]
On the munificence of the gift of the pious emperor (Anastasius), who had remitted some remaining contributions and taxes from the Public Treasury. 1 Vast and difficult to scrutinize is the depth of the Economy, which the Word of God and the Saviour Jesus Christ manifested with regard to our race by his coming in […]