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502 Text(4) |             been found necessary to render athra sometimes by ' Place '
503 Text(1) |                           1 For the rendering, see Galatians vi 1, syr.
504 Text    |           bodies and substances, [I reply] that at first they exist
505 Text    |           not been learnt by him is reproved when he approaches the work
506 Text    |     consider that it is a necessary result that Space should both exist
507 Text    |         therefore the darkness is a revealer, like the light, since in
508 Text    |        intensity of the light which reveals (the object) ; for by much
509 Text    |           For wise men, perfect and righteous, have humbled themselves
510 Text    |           such as, 'eat,' 'drink,' 'rise,' 'sit.' Now these are variations
511 Note2   |             pages are numbered with Roman numerals.  Arabic numbers
512 Text    |            Time and Number) are the roots from which all the branches
513 Note1   |          the accompanying Syriac.  [RP]~ ~
514 Text    |            be confused, and he will run in every direction, because
515 Text(12)|                             1 Lit. 'sailed about' : see p. 221, 1.
516 Text    |       DISCOURSE MADE BY THE BLESSED SAINT [P. 1] EPHRAIM AGAINST THE
517 Text    |           of the eye) that which he saw by the light which is within (
518 Text    |       invisibly, like the invisible scent which comes from visible
519 Text    |            who are opposed to their school of thought. ~But in the
520 Text    |             that) of many books, of seals, of pearls and the like.
521 Text    |          assist the weakness of the seeker. ~Hear therefore with respect
522 Text    |             these things to him who seeks them, in order to assist
523 Text    |          nouns called 'buying' and 'selling' have no substance. Therefore
524 Text    |             how it concentrates and sends forth the smoke, and it
525 Text    |            some sight (or other) is sent out and goes forth from
526 Text    |         things are 'bound ' and not separable ; but notions are not 'bound' [
527 Text    |           then) it ascends and does service on heights that are hard
528 Text    |  philosophers who in their writings set forth first the inquiries
529 Text    |              because that air which sets things in motion (lit. the
530 Text    |            their proper colours and shapes. And if he adds in one of
531 Text    |             hand above his eyes and shelter them, their sight is not
532 Text    |             with respect to a sign (shmei~on) and a line that they
533 Text    |         from which all the branches shoot forth. And though it would
534 Note1   |             Introduction, p. (10):~[Short lacunae are indicated in
535 Text    |             And because one side is shorter in its measurement it is
536 Text    |             would suffice that thou shouldst know all of them by means
537 Text    |            which the sight might be shut up, as in a tube, [the sight]
538 Text    |       consider also the fire-hoses (si/fwnej), and see to what
539 Text    |         therefore with respect to a sign (shmei~on) and a line that
540 Text    |       feeble to reprove also by its silence the ignorant man who desires
541 Text    |             of Plato ; and in (his) simplicity he hastened to calumniate
542 Text    |          not arrogant, how shall we sinful ones be arrogant in such
543 Text    |            a mirror is seen when it sinks into the midst of the mirror
544 Text    |          there is no excuse for the sinner, seeing that Nature itself
545 Text    |             eat,' 'drink,' 'rise,' 'sit.' Now these are variations
546 Text    |         even (in the case of) these six notions which are associated
547 Text    |             to be great, though its size has not received any augmentation (?)
548 Text    |            of the eye failing (lit. slipping) is that the sight of the
549 Text    |             39.] is weak errs (lit. slips). But the contrivances which
550 Text    |       according to the greatness or smallness of the object seen, and
551 Text    |      substances which are bought or sold have these three dimensions,
552         | somewhere
553 Text    |         hidden by the light, as the sons of darkness (are hidden)
554 Text    |            i.e. was dissipated), as soon as its wandering motions
555 Text    |             if the meaning were any sort of substance, the ear would
556 Note2   |              Note of the electronic source~I have moved the footnotes
557 Text    |         when they go far from their sources, so also the sight diminishes
558 Text    |             the East and ... in the South . . . and extends (its rays)
559 Text    |          the moon, does that female sow perception in a female ?
560 Text    |       makest with them as it were a spacious hollow on the inner side
561 Text    |                    we (?) blame the speaker, because he is not able
562 Text    |              28.] if they (i.e. the speakers) are Persians, the mind
563 Text    |          that Space of which we are speaking, through what (i.e. in relation
564 Text    |           And so also when some one speaks to thee of colours. But
565 Text    |            a lamp, and perfume from spices are weakened when they go
566 Text    |             5 l.27] Thus the Greeks spoke words of knowledge and . . .
567 Text    |             so ; for rest cannot be stable, because that air which
568 Text    |             exist by themselves and stand without the support of any
569 Text    |          become the opposite of the star which is akin to it—but
570 Text    |              And if without measure starving men make use of food death
571 Text    |            he [P. 8.] was unable to state but also in that he did
572 Text    |             is a thing which can be stated indeed, but cannot be (in
573 Text    |           breadth of it"—these, lo, stay upon the bodies by favour.
574 Text    |         Brass,' with the name there stays the substance also, and
575 Text    |      concentrated (enough) to look (steadily). And likewise when a man
576 Text    |          contrivance of the trumpet steps in it causes the voice to
577 Text(9) |        grammh&) and extreme points (stigmh&) and its isolation (mona&
578 Text    |             insignificance also [is stirred up by the hearing of these
579 Text    |            But as for dark-coloured stones and (other) black substances,
580 Text    |         account of the heavens. But store up (?) these things in thy
581 Text    |          thinkest, "He is drawing a straight line," he draws for himself
582 Text    |         different, by reason of the strength and clearness which are
583 Text    |            power of thy nostrils is strong enough to concentrate (and)
584 Text    |            a wall its breath beomes stronger because of its accumulation.
585 Text    |      goldsmith its blast goes forth strongly because of its concentration.
586 Text    |            though Plato had a great struggle against these (very) inquiries,
587 Text    |         perceive they cannot add or subtract anything ; and when they
588 Text    |          say that, because it rises suddenly and its light shines into
589 Note1   |        passages, where the text has suffered great mutilation, italics
590 Text    |          forth. And though it would suffice that thou shouldst know
591 Note1   |         summarise the argument from suggestions in the fragments.]~[P.101]
592 Note1   |      italics indicate an attempt to summarise the argument from suggestions
593 Text    |       tested by him, since even the summits and depths of the earth,
594 Text    |           see that unless thou hast sung or called I know not  whether
595 Text    |        juggled 13 even by names and supposed that [P. 49.]  the nature (
596 Text    |      definite quantity)." For if he supposes that Space is measurable
597 Text    |          sense, for if] thou think 'surely it is bound up with the
598 Text    |              something ") cannot be surrounded by anything. And on this
599 Text    |           then also again something surrounds that body ; that is to say,
600 Text    |          soft or hard, or bitter or sweet. And so also when some one
601 Text(1) |      rendering, see Galatians vi 1, syr. vg.~
602 Text    |          carries. Again, make (lit. take) an experiment for thyself, (
603 Text    |            not seen by the eye, nor tasted by the mouth, nor smelt,
604 Text    |         hurt! ~For as heavy burdens teach weakness to excuse itself
605 Text    |            humble and learns from a teacher, he is able . . . ~*         *         *         *         *         *         *  ~[
606 Text    |              l.22]. . . . And if he teaches another. . . . For he who
607 Text    |         sees] a fire [burning] in a Temple or a [Palace] the sight [
608 Text    |            of the same kind, it all tends to show that what he has
609 Note1   |           or to belong to a special terminology.~Words in italics inside
610 Text    |             the eyes of the man are tested by him, since even the summits
611 Text    |          that I may bring to thee a testimony from near at hand, consider
612         | thereby
613         | therein
614 Text    |          inquiries, which Bardaisan thinks belong to Plato. ~But these
615 Text    |             take) an experiment for thyself, (namely) if thou openest
616 Text    |             and the Platonists this took place, for the Platonists
617 Text    |             sight [comes] up to the torch or the . . ., on that account
618 Text    |             but if it is limited it touches upon some body and is (thereby)
619 Text    |     parables, and these without the tradition (of their meaning) no one [
620 Note2   |            has not been possible to transcribe the fragments of Syriac. 
621 Note1   |        lacunae are indicated in the translation by dots, and longer gaps
622 Note1   |             regarded as conjectural translations or paraphrases.~In a few
623 Text    |             is scattered and cannot travel to a distance. And when
624 Text    |             is victorious, since it triumphs and defeats fasehood and
625 Text    |           the three dimensions (to_ trixh~ diastaton)," namely length
626 Text    |          striking upon a mirror and turning back to it (i.e. are reflected
627 Text(5) |        words in square brackets are uncertain ; perhaps they are place-names. ~
628         | under
629 Text    |          signs by means of which we understand everything {that} has body
630 Text    |          again mix one with another unequally, but are ... ~*         *         *         *         *         *         *  ~[
631 Text    |     according to the healthiness or unhealthiness of the eye itself, and moreover
632 Text    |          would be right also for an uninstructed imagination to refrain from
633 Text    |           perceives it. And even an unlearned eye sees a book because
634 Text    |         again do rays go forth from unpolished bodies or from substances
635 Text(9) |       isolation (mona&s), are real (unsai/ai), more real than the
636 Text    |         they propel and scatter the unstable water. Consider moreover
637 Text    |             he does not know] he is unwilling to be humble [l.22]. . . .
638 Text    |            looking downward and not upward. Again, observe a carpenter (
639 Text    |          bodies according to common usage ; for a man says 'length'
640 Text    |           measure starving men make use of food death is produced
641 Text    |       hearest a name which some one uses and he calls out 'gold,'
642 Text    |           and that object which is (usually) visible is swallowed up
643 Text    |          above-mentioned words were uttered) the ear heard thine own
644 Text    |            of) thine own voice thou utterest those notions which have
645 Text    |             blows a flute or he who utters cries with a mouth that
646 Text    |            the hearer when they are varied in the mouth, and these
647 Text    |       cannot be (in reality). But I venture to say ... as many have
648 Text(7) |                       3 In Syriac a Verb is called a 'word' ([Syriac])
649 Text(1) |            see Galatians vi 1, syr. vg.~
650 Text    |         either of them his truth is victorious, since it triumphs and defeats
651 Text    |         latter comes with its light visibly towards the eye, and sight
652 Text    |            of its (i.e. the food's) vital force. O correct measure,
653 Note1   |                           Note from Vol. 1 Introduction, p. (10):~[
654 Note2   |            at the back of the paper volume.  ~
655 Text    |           sounds, or of those seven vowels (?), or seven Syllables,
656 Text    |            in the opening through a wall its breath beomes stronger
657 Text    |         when it went forth from us, wandered (i.e. was dissipated), as
658 Text    |         dissipated), as soon as its wandering motions are concentrated
659 Text    |             hand above the lamp and ward off the rays from his eyes,
660 Text    |         world, the world would be a waste. And that I may bring to
661 Text    |             perfume from spices are weakened when they go far from their
662 Text    |          that he may estimate (lit. weigh) the extent (lit. surface)
663 Text    |           itself from (lifting) any weight which it is unable to bear,
664         | whatever
665         | whenever
666 Text    |             may say how and why and wherefore. ~[l.19] . . . but they
667 Text    |          darkness ; the darkness is wholly destroyed and ceases (to
668         | whose
669 Text    |           if thou openest thy mouth wide and criest, thy voice wanders
670 Text    |           to measure the extent and width of that body, and when thou
671 Text    |          eat more than birds, and a wild beast drinks more than creeping
672 Text    | concentration. Furthermore, if this wind that blows is compressed
673 Text    |             that with its lines all works and all designs are made,
674 Text    |         being in its form or in its writing. There is no clang or buzzing
675 Text    |       nowhere does it put us in the wrong ; for even in the case of
676 Text(2) |             1 Albinus (c. 152 A.D.) wrote an Introduction (Ei0sagwgh&)
677 Text(11)|      argument against Bardaisan (p. xxii), that the word for 'engender '