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	Aphraates - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aphraates (a Greek form of the Persian name Aphrahas or arhadh) was a Syriac writer belonging to the middle of the 4th century AD, who composed a series of twenty-three expositions or homilies on points of Christian doctrine and practice.
		The homilies of Aphraates are intended to form, as Professor Burkitt has shown, "a full and ordered exposition of the Christian faith." The endpoint is that of the Syriac-speaking church, before it was touched by the Arian controversy.
		Aphraates impresses a reader favourably by a moral earnestness, his guilelessness, his moderation in controversy, the simplicity of his style and language, his saturation in the ideas and words of Scripture.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aphraates (741 words)

	Tatian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Epiphanius relates that Tatian established a school in Mesopotamia, the influence of which extended to Antioch in Syria, and was felt in Cilicia and especially in Pisidia, but his assertion can not be verified.
		The ascetic character which Syriac Christianity bore as late as the time of Aphraates was not impressed upon it by Tatian, but has roots that reach deeper.
		Thus for Aphraates baptism conditions the taking of a vow in which the catechumen promises celibacy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tatian (1401 words)

	Aphraates - Bishop -Welcome to The Crossroads Initiative
		Aphraates lived during the early 4th century and was the first of the Syriac Church fathers.
		This means that he wrote, not in Greek like the New Testament authors and nearly all of the Church fathers before him, but in a dialect of the Aramaic language that was the native tongue of Jesus and the apostles.
		Ironically, at the time that the Roman emperor had finally legalized Christianity, St. Aphraates found himself within the boundaries of the Persian empire which undertook in his lifetime a fierce persecution of Christians.
	www.crossroadsinitiative.com /library_author/94/Aphraates___Bishop.html (264 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Aphraates
		According to a manuscript of the British Museum dated A.D. 1364 (Orient, 1017) Aphraates was "Bishop of the monastery of Mar Mattai", on the eastern shore of the Tigris, near the modern Mosul in Mesopotamia.
		Because of the numerous quotations from Holy Writ used by Aphraates, his writings are also very valuable for the history of the canon of Sacred Scripture and of exegesis in the early Mesopotamian Church.
		The editio princeps of the Syriac text of the twenty-three "Demonstrations" was issued by W. Wright, "The Homilies of Aphraates" (London, 1869).
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01593c.htm (813 words)

	Aphraates of Persia, LIves of the Saints, Catholic Radio Dramas.com
		An illustrious author, Aphraates wrote the Demonstrations, a series of twenty-three treatises written between 335 and 345 considered the oldest extant document of the Church in Syria giving a detailed summary of the early Christian faith.
		Aphraates affirmed that the Holy Eucharist is the real Body and Blood of Christ.
		Aphraates suffered persecution at the hands of King Sapor the Great and was known as "the Persian Sage."
	www.catholicradiodramas.com /Saints_Works_A/Aphraates_Circumsion_of_the_heart.htm (833 words)

	APHRAATES - LoveToKnow Article on APHRAATES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Aphraates impresses a reader favorably by bl moral earnestness, his guilelessness, his moderation in con- wi)versy, the simplicity of his style and language, his saturation in th the ideas and words of Scripture.
		On the other hand, he is co II of cumbrous repetition, he lacks precision in argument and hi prone to digression, his quotations from Scripture are often cr Ippropriate, and he is greatly influenced by Jewish exegesis.
		In Crete she has been identified with Ariadne, who, cording to one version of her story, was put ashore, in Cyprus, iere she died and was buried in a grove called after the name
	25.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AP/APHRAATES.htm (2422 words)

	The Compass newspaper -- April 4, 2003 Issue -- Saint of the Day
		Any thoughts Valens may have had about arresting or killing Aphraates disappeared soon after when the servant was accidentally scalded to death, thus convincing the superstitious emperor to spare Aphraates' life.
		Aphraates had been born into a pagan family living in Syria on the border with Persia (now Iran).
		Some scholars believe Aphraates is the same person as the bishop of Mar Mattai monastery near Mosul, Mesopotamia (now in Iraq).
	www.thecompassnews.org /compass/2003-04-04/03cn0404f2.shtml (447 words)

	Jewish-Christian Relations :: The Parting of the Ways
		Aphraates replies to the Jewish objection that the Christians distort Monotheism by quoting precedents about "sonship" from the Hebrew Scriptures.
		Aphraates says that when Christians call Christ "God" and "Son of G-d" this is not extraordinary.
		Aphraates sees no problem for Jews in naming Christ as G-d's Son as the prototype is in the Hebrew Scriptures and for Aphraates not superseded.
	www.jcrelations.net /en/?id=797 (3901 words)

	Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of April 7
		Saint Aphraates was born into an illustrious pagan family on Syria's border with Persia (Iran).
		This Aphraates may have suffered persecution at the hands of King Shapur the Great and was known as 'the Persian sage' (Benedictines, Delaney, Encyclopedia).
		In art, Saint Aphraates is a hermit striking a rock from which water gushes out, or refusing a rich robe (Roeder).
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0407.htm (3793 words)

	Catholic Online - Saints & Angels - St. Aphraates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Aphraates was born on the Persian border with Syria.
		Aphraates is sometimes identified as the bishop of the monastery of Mar Mattai, near Mosul Mesopotamia.
		Aphraates is often referred to as "the Persian Sage."
	saints.catholic.org /saints/saint.php?saint_id=1483 (182 words)

	Philoxenus, Ascetic Discourses (1894) pp.lxxiii-xciii. Summary of the Discourses of Philoxenus
		Much of the ground covered by Aphraates is gone over by Philoxenus, and though he never scruples to declare his belief openly, it is stated with a gentleness which, if we only had the accounts of his.
		The description of motives and the part which they play in the Christian life is given by Philoxenus with a minute fulness not found in Aphraates, but this is partly due to the fact lxxv that Philoxenus addressed himself chiefly to ascetics.
		Though living in the body we shall be in the spirit, and shall live the life of the world to come, and we shall learn the cause of the coming of Christ into the world, which those who live in the body can never know.
	www.tertullian.org /fathers/philoxenus_discourse00_6_synopses.htm (5334 words)

	Holy Eucharist teachings by the Fathers of the Catholic Church, Before He was crucified He gave His blood as drink, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Holy Eucharist teachings by the Fathers of the Catholic Church, Before He was crucified He gave His blood as drink, Aphraates the Persian Sage (c.
		After having spoken thus ["This is My body...This is My blood"], the Lord rose up from the place where He had made the Passover and had given His Body as food and His Blood as drink, and He went with His disciples to the place where He was to be arrested.
		Holy Eucharist teachings by the Fathers of the Church - Aphraates the Persian Sage (c.
	www.theworkofgod.org /devotns/euchrist/Topics/teachings.asp?key=478 (152 words)

	Find in a Library: Aphraates and the Jews; a study of the controversial homilies of the Persian sage in their relation ...
		Find in a Library: Aphraates and the Jews; a study of the controversial homilies of the Persian sage in their relation to Jewish thought.
		Aphraates and the Jews; a study of the controversial homilies of the Persian sage in their relation to Jewish thought.
		Subjects: Aphraates, -- the Persian sage, -- fl.
	www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/d5c99c2a4f458f01.html (81 words)

	Excerpts From Demonstrations by Aphrates \| Church History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		When Aphraates spoke publicly against the Arians, servant of Emperor Valens tried to murder Aphraates.
		When the servant died suddenly, Valens took the death as a sign from God and protected Aphraates, refusing an Arian request to exile the hermit.
		Possibly a martyr, he is believed to have written a many-volumed defense of the faith called the Demonstrations, which is the oldest extant document of the Church in Syria.
	www.preteristarchive.com /Books/0345_aphrahat_demonstrations.html (5263 words)

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		Someone pointed Aphraates out to him walking on the banks of the river in full view of the Emperor, who asked him what he thought he was up to.
		This boy was devout and of a firm faith, and he brought the horse to Aphraates in the middle of the day, identified himself as one of the faithful, explained what the trouble was and begged Aphraates to effect a cure by his prayers.
		But the divine Aphraates throughout all those stormy times gave constant proof of his virtue, and when peace was restored carried on exactly as he had done before.
	www.vitae-patrum.org.uk /page132.html (3862 words)

	The Great Commission Addition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Concerning Aphraates, of Nisibis, Conybeare states, "There is one other witness whose testimony we must consider.
		He cites out text in a formal manner as follows: 'Make disciples of all nations, and they shall believe in me.' The last words appear to be a gloss of the Eusebian reading 'in my name.' But in any case, they preclude the textus receptus with its injunction to baptise in the triune name.
		Were the writing of Aphraates an isolated fact, we might regard it as a loose citation, but in the presence of the Eusebian and Justinian texts this is impossible." (Conybeare).
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		Chapter VI S If anyone were to think of leaving Simeon out, and consigning the memory of his wisdom (philosophia) to oblivion, they could well be accused of being vindictive and envious of his merits.
		For he was born and brought up in Persia, an uncivilised nation, but in spite of his parentage and the laws under which he was educated he arrived at such a peak of virtue as to overshadow even those born of devout parents and nourished in the true faith from an early age.
		There is a story that Anthemius, who later became prefect and consul, had been to Persia when serving as a legate, and brought to Aphraates a tunic woven in Persia.
	www.vitae-patrum.org.uk /page131.html (3939 words)

	NPNF (V2-03) (iv.viii.iv.xxiii) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Between the palace and the river lies a public way open to passengers from the town, through the gate in this quarter, and leading to the country in the suburbs.
		The godly Aphraates was once passing along this thoroughfare on his way to the soldiers’ training ground, in order to perform the duty of serving his flock.
		Nevertheless they did not depart from the impious doctrines but hardened their heart like Pharaoh, and the infatuated emperor, though made aware of the miracle of the holy man, persisted in his mad rage against piety.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/npnf203.iv.viii.iv.xxiii.html (502 words)

	Patristic Quotes Index for 1-3 Maccabees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Aphraates, Demonstration 5: Of Wars - 2 Macc.
		Aphraates, Demonstration 21: Of Persecution - 2 Macc.
		Basil, Letter 6: To the Wife of Nektarius - 2 Macc.
	www.holophotal.net /Maccabeespatristic.html (173 words)

	Famous Ascetics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He was well known for being a holy man and a miracle.
		Artistically, Saint Aphraates is depicted as a hermit striking a rock with water coming out of it or refusing to accept an opulent robe.
		Also known as Albert Aibert, he was born in the diocese of Tournai, France.
	webpub.alleg.edu /group/mystics/Mystics/Ascetic/famous_ascetics.html (1856 words)

	ORTHODOXY AND HERESY IN EARLIEST CHRISTIANITY
		The first native Syrian ecclesiastical author of any importance, Aphraates the "Persian" sage (that is, he lived in or came from the Sassanid kingdom) dealt with Marcion, Valentinus, and Mani in his third treatise,[54] which according to his own account was written in 336-37.
		What persisted as Valentinianism in the areas known to Aphraates, [[ET 25]] apparently became absorbed in Edessa by the teaching and the community of faith of Bardesanes.
		Since Aphraates already cites two passages of "3 Corinthians" as the words "of the apostle," the letter must have been accepted as canonical in Syriac-speaking areas, and above all in Edessa, around the year 330.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~humm/Resources/Bauer/bauer01.htm (15293 words)

	Syriac Phase 1 Titles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wright, The Homilies of Aphraates, the Persian Sage.
		Hallock, Frank H. "Aphraates on Penitents." Journal of the Society of Oriental Research (Toronto) 16 (1932): 43-56.
		Ephraim's Prose Refutations of Mani, Marcion, and Bardaisan of which the greater part has been transcribed from the palimpsest B.M. Add.
	cpart.byu.edu /ECRL/titles.php (2876 words)

	Antioch, Patriarchate of (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		386) it is said that Aphraates was a pupil of Julianus and that he died, according to some, at the age of 104 years.
		The Dame Jacobus seems to have been adopted by Aphraates as bishop of the monastery of Mar Mattai, near Mosul (cf.
		495), confounded Aphraates with Jacob of Nisibis, under whose name nineteen of the homilies were published in an Armenian translation by N. Antonelli (Rome, 1756).
	www.ccel.org /s/schaff/encyc/encyc01/htm/iii.v.htm (15885 words)

	SAINTS CELTES, BELGES, ETC 7 Avril www.amdg.be (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Au nombre des hommes généreux qui bravaient le courroux du tyran et enflammaient de leur propre courage l'Eglise opprimée d'Antioche était le grand solitaire Aphraates.
		Du haut du portique, Valens aperçut Aphraates, vêtu d'un pauvre manteau, et se dirigeant à la hâte vers le champ de Mars: "Où vas-tu, lui cria le prince.
		Tel était ce grand Aphraates qui vint alors au secours de la Foi et fit ensuite plusieurs miracles.
	www.amdg.easynet.be /sankt/avr07.html (3713 words)

	Matthäus 28,19 - "Taufe im Namen der Trinität" ? - BibelCenter Studien
		Das ist Aphraates, der syrische (aramäische) Kirchenvater, der zwischen 337 und 345 geschrieben hat.
		Er zitiert den Text in offizieller Form wie folgt: 'Macht zu Jüngern alle Völker und sie werden an mich glauben.' Diese letzten Worte scheinen ein Hinweis auf den Wortlaut "in meinem Namen" bei Eusebius zu sein.
		Wäre die Aphraates Stelle eine einzelne isolierte Abweichung, so könnte man in ihr wohl eine ungenaue bzw lose Form eines Zitats sehen, angesichts der Stellen bei Eusebius und auch Justin ist das aber unmöglich." (eigene Übersetzung aus : Artikel von F. Conybeare in The Hibbert Journal von Okt.
	www.bibelcenter.de /bibel/trinitaet/mat28_19_allgemein.php (4324 words)

	Aphraates and the Jews: A Study of the Controversial Homlies of the Persian Sage in their Relation to Jewish Thought - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Aphraates and the Jews: A Study of the Controversial Homlies of the Persian Sage in their Relation to Jewish Thought - GAVIN, FRANK.
		Aphraates and the Jews: A Study of the Controversial Homlies of the Persian Sage in their Relation to Jewish Thought
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	Is Matthew 28:19 Spurious
		It is proposed to being forward evidence from the following,either to direct quotation form their writings, or indirectly through the writings of their contemporaries, viz.
		Eusebius of Caesarea, the unknown author of De Rebaptismate, Origen, Clement of Alexandria, Justin martyr, Macedonius, Eunomius and Aphraates.
		He is Aphraates the Syriac father who wrote between 337 and 345.
	www.jesus-messiah.com /apologetics/catholic/matthew2819.html (7640 words)

	Aphraates -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Aphraates became a convert to Christianity during the reign of the anti-Christian Persian king Shapur II (309–379), after which he led a monastic life, possibly at the Monastery of St. Matthew near Mosul, Iraq.
		Later he may have become a bishop when he assumed the name James.
		"Aphraates." Encyclopædia Britannica from Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service.
	secure.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9007997 (119 words)

	The Demonstrations OF Aphrahat
		A.D. It was not until the tenth century that the "Persian Sage" was finally identified with
		According to a manuscript of the British Museum dated A.D. 1364 (Orient, 1017) Aphraates was "Bishop of the monastery of Mar Mattai", on the
		Beloved, I send thee inquiries and questions, for I am compelled to seek further instruction of thee on many points.
	www.piney.com /FathAphrahatDemon.html (14135 words)

	Mark Bonocore and Isaiah 22:20-22 (Part III) - Pros Apologian
		"David handed over the Kingdom to Solomon and was gathered to his people; and Jesus handed over the Keys to Simon and ascended and returned to Him Who sent Him." (Aphraates, xxi, 13).
		But to leap to the final conclusion just to find a way to cite Isaiah 22:20-22 only shows how utterly vacuous this form of argumentation is.
		As for patristic support, look again to Cassian & Aphraates above.
	www.aomin.org /index.php?itemid=151 (1617 words)

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