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St. Ephraim Second to Hypatius against Mani and Marcion and Bardaisan Concordances (Hapax - words occurring once) |
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501 4 | whosoever he may be, whose name is BÂN—who in the days of 502 21 | The Mosaic narrative gives the true purpose of 503 26(7)| The radish is said by the native Arabic authorities to produce 504 31 | the Body, and so do not need a wall, above in the House 505 | never 506 34 | which was alien to it. For a newborn babe changes from its place 507 33 | light, and as bats in the night. To these and many others 508 | nine 509 21 | l. 2.] at the seventh or ninth hour ; while for two whole 510 31 | the Manichaeans practice non-resistance. they do so that they may 511 | none 512 3 | what belongs to itself—a notion difficult to accept—then 513 22 | together and ordered the numberings that it might perfect the 514 Note2 | are numbered with Roman numerals. Arabic numbers and line 515 12(2)| 1 Or perhaps "easy," "obvious." See note on p. 12. ~ 516 33(8)| 2 [Syriac] in the Syriac occurs only here and on p. 73, 517 35 | its-taste is in it, and its odour has not grown faint, but 518 | off 519 | often 520 33 | if you immersed a fish in oil, and hid a mole in honey, 521 Note2 | syriac]" or similar have been omitted, as it has not been possible 522 28 | And how do the Sons of the Omniscient not know how to go to their 523 31 | came against Mani in the open country, and against his 524 26 | food ; and then a way is opened up for the imprisoned Light 525 3 | just as a wolf does not oppose itself nor a lion itself. ~ 526 3 | Entity all alike, it is not opposed to its own nature ; just 527 19 | lunar month of 29½ days opposes Mani's view about the Moon. ~ 528 34 | nature," and exchanged its ordinary manner for something which 529 Note1 | mark quotations where the original has [Syriac]~Single inverted 530 28 | why does it) not flit away outside and go up, and be taken 531 30 | up above, there are the outstretched heights immeasurable,—to 532 30 | creation which cannot be overcome. For (should they wish) 533 25 | filled from a high and lofty overflow and floods those who are 534 20 | anything that falls into it overflows. But this full object (i.e., 535 8 | Constituents may preponderate and overwhelm the rest of its companions ; 536 31 | with the vile Body.] For owing to the lack of walls, of 537 33 | frequented by man, as an owl in ruins, as a dove in the 538 Note2 | fragments of Syriac. The pages are numbered with Roman 539 33 | suffers pain, just as a man pains the dark mole when he brings 540 20 | that it may refute by the pair of Luminaries those who 541 Note2 | printed at the back of the paper volume. ~ 542 35 | our Old Testament. [The parable of the Wineskins applied 543 Note1 | conjectural translations or paraphrases.~In a few passages, where 544 21 | the Moon is the mother and parent of the months. ~ 545 Note1 | or paraphrases.~In a few passages, where the text has suffered 546 20 | quickly refutes them, when it passes from dealing with the Moon 547 3 | the Darkness verily longed passionately for the Light because the 548 28 | came ? And who can have patience with these (men) ?—unless 549 34 | its own Domain it is at peace, so in a Domain which is 550 33 | or a louse in a heap of pearls, although these excel the 551 34 | the Darkness had its own peculiar Domain,9 as they say,--this 552 18 | Teaching is refuted by what is peculiarly its own, in that its existence 553 31 | for his house ; or do they perchance argue in answer to this, 554 12 | above in the sky. And this performance is the reverse of the right 555 15 | thus built after a long period, and with [P. 15.] much 556 30 | for Constraint does not permit them—they have attempted 557 20 | they worship Luminaries are persons whose intelligence is wholly 558 18 | them that when those who persuade are many, much more do those 559 9 | is stripped bare by the persuasive arguments of Truth. For 560 6 | witness—that the power of food pervades the body. But if the Light 561 15 | he has 'intoxicated' and perverted and put them to shame, after 562 26 | that is to say, the cold phlegm, which is over the food— 563 26 | should bite and tear in pieces that Manichaean who disgorged 564 11 | he melted, and raised and piled up the mountains,"—we thank 565 30 | bold like those of old He placed them in the midst of a creation 566 32 | the rules, and devised a plan, where there was all this], 567 9 | of its nature—this is not pleasing to the ear of Truth. For 568 13 | swallowed it. Such is the polluted teaching which refines the 569 31 | is not clothed with the polluting Body, does not know how 570 34 | the Darkness) should be positively injured as Nature indicates, 571 20 | then know that) if thou pourest anything more into a vessel 572 31 | walls ? [If the Manichaeans practice non-resistance. they do 573 26 | here it is not the man who prays much who is refined, but 574 8 | of the Constituents may preponderate and overwhelm the rest of 575 8 | one of its Constitutents preponderates on account of the quantity 576 30 | order that kings at the present time might not be bold like 577 17 | was emptied out might be preserved, and that latter Light which 578 30 | knew that mankind (would) presume with their Freewill and 579 7 | fix the Nature of fire to prevent its being divided in the 580 31 | Body. [A wall would have prevented their being mixed with the 581 14 | On Mani chaean principles the Archons and their skins 582 Note2 | relate to the Syriac text printed at the back of the paper 583 9 | deficiency refutes those who proclaim it. For they have put together 584 33 | that are not proper may be proclaimed. And if they are thus puffed 585 9 | doctrine of madmen, then, proclaims an Existence which is deficient 586 21 | beginning to its end the Moon produces thirty days. But if the 587 9 | of Truth. For they have professedly set forth two Roots, though 588 21 | And, therefore, even if we prolong our discourse, let us declare 589 33 | these things, against all propriety they are debating so that 590 29 | Why did not the Good Being protect his possessions from the 591 29 | his possessions to place a protecting wall around his flocks which 592 33 | will. And because of the proud who have exalted themselves, 593 6 | Light.~Now wise physicians prove to us—and the limbs with 594 33 | proclaimed. And if they are thus puffed up though in Error (it is) 595 26 | thence. And, therefore, that pungent radish7 can be the enemy 596 28 | Darkness able to handle that pureness which is not palpable, or 597 24 | seeing that it is a Light purer and more refined than the 598 26 | Disgorgings in order to purge (?) the stomach which does 599 11 | swallowed by them might be purged out, and that there might 600 5 | that befouls; not one that purifies, but one that defiles ; 601 12 | there had been wine (to purify) would he not have known 602 9 | knowledge ; and whoever puts on contentiousness is stripped 603 8 | preponderates on account of the quantity of one of the foods, the 604 35 | and laid bare. For as the question (?) of Moses shattered the 605 35 | imposture is crushed by the questions of the [L. 16.] Truth all 606 20 | Sun. ~And because Truth quickly refutes them, when it passes 607 7 | without speech, [P. 8.] and quiet without motion. ~ 608 26 | Light was transmitted in the race of mad dogs and biters ; 609 11 | was, that by means of the rain and dew whatever was swallowed 610 11 | bones, too, he melted, and raised and piled up the mountains,"— 611 22 | But we have spoken this rapidly because we were not sailed 612 29 | unclean Enemy and from his raving Neighbour, especially when 613 7 | not a fixed nature. But a ray of the sun a man cannot 614 12 | learner, who had not yet reached experience in workmanship. 615 8 | of the foods, the injury reaches the whole system. But the 616 Note2 | end. Those consisting of "Read [syriac] for [syriac]" or 617 20 | of its Light—as it is in reality—(then know that) if thou 618 18 | How is the amount of Light received by the Moon always the same ? ~ 619 33 | Psalm of the Blessed David reckons ; and he declares in due 620 18 | who imagine that they are recognised by the Luminaries. And, 621 9 | without knowledge, it is rectified by sound knowledge ; and 622 22 | they may point out in them Refinings which go up from the earth. ~ 623 18 | Luminaries they receive a special refutation who imagine that they are 624 28 | He whose sole object in refuting these (men) is that they 625 Note1 | square brackets are to be regarded as conjectural translations 626 23 | itself as [P. 20, l.9.] regards its own nature with (i.e., 627 8 | seven Parts without proper regulation. And because it does not 628 Note2 | numbers and line numbers relate to the Syriac text printed 629 Note1 | intended to bear any exact relation to the number of the missing 630 26 | i.e., the food) should be released, and go forth thence. And, 631 12 | refine every day ; but in the remote south it is not even, a 632 26 | in a contest with it, and rends the veil which is spread 633 28 | that He delights in their repentance, [S. Luke xv. 7, 10.] He 634 28 | to the Moon, but it would require a helper to conduct it, 635 28 | Light), loses itself and requires a helper to conduct it ? 636 25 | they both are wrong in both respects, so that the word of Moses 637 26 | wishes by its coldness to restrain the Refining, lest it (i.e., 638 17 | the Light) in one hour and return so that that former Light 639 11 | him that his falsehood is revealed— "since there is in them, 640 12 | this performance is the reverse of the right one, in that 641 35 | but the Manichaeans do not revile the worship of the Sun and 642 26 | of a Manichaean called a Righteous one (ZADDIQA), has entered 643 33 | that they may be defeated rightly on the other. For it would 644 18 | filled above their limits and rise beyond their wont ? 645 21 | months.] For it is by the rising of the Sun and the setting 646 18 | there are many floods the rivers are filled above their limits 647 Note2 | pages are numbered with Roman numerals. Arabic numbers 648 10 | it was not mixed in the root from which it came ? And 649 Note1 | the accompanying Syriac. [RP]~ ~ 650 22 | rapidly because we were not sailed to speak of these matters ; 651 8 | it may happen that the scale of one of the Constituents 652 17 | also bring forth as the scorpion in one day ? And if she 653 35 | they are not alike in their Scriptures. For as the Jews blaspheme 654 30 | there are bitter illimitable seas, and these [things He did, 655 35 | bear it. ~THE END OF THE SECOND DISCOURSE. ~ ~ 656 18 | it is possible for that secret falsehood of theirs to be 657 26 | perhaps, this Mystery was secretly in the world, and the world 658 28 | necessary that we should seek some other Entity who himself 659 16 | days that Ship of Light seeks to empty out (the Light), 660 | seem 661 | seems 662 21 | two whole days she is not seen at all. God, in His wisdom 663 28 | or how can the corporeal seize the spiritual which is intangible, 664 27 | Primitive Darkness, not merely 'seized' that Primitive Light, but 665 1 | The self-contradictions in Mani's Teaching.~LOOK1 666 7 | the Body) ? And if it has self-knowledge because it is collected 667 26 | looks upwards in order to send upwards by means of the 668 25 | who come from beneath and sends (them) away to the Upper 669 4 | Earth in which there is no sensation, and they be Stones in which 670 15 | Cf. p. xxx. l. 14.] has sense enough to frame a Grave 671 13 | they do not at all times separate fruit from the dust and 672 5 | another Body, not one that separates (the Light), but one that 673 11 | and that there might be a Separation and Refining of the Natures 674 33 | are in water, as moles in sepulchral vaults,8 as moths in clothing, 675 1 | as the very words of the servants gave the verdict against 676 22 | the Luminaries from the service of the months and days, 677 21 | third or fourth hour, and sets [P. 23, l. 2.] at the seventh 678 21 | rising of the Sun and the setting of the Sun that the days 679 21 | sets [P. 23, l. 2.] at the seventh or ninth hour ; while for 680 35 | so the power of the Truth shatters the fabricated Teaching. 681 19 | increasing as well. The shortage of Light, however, does 682 23 | falls into them, they do not shrink. And if anything that is 683 31 | is there who does not shut his door or the door of 684 26 | refined. For the coldness shuts up the food heavily there, 685 33 | disregard them on the one side that they may be defeated 686 25 | Luminaries, 'they shall be for signs and for [P. 28.] seasons, 687 12 | gathered within a covering of silence. ~ 688 7 | deaf-mutes without knowledge, and silent without speech, [P. 8.] 689 Note2 | syriac] for [syriac]" or similar have been omitted, as it 690 22 | of the three hundred and sixty-five days, where may three superfluous 691 5 | him that he is a wise and skilful Maker, he who might have 692 15 | therefore, did they not skin him, too, in the beginning 693 29 | heal—is it not one who is smitten? And whom do they teach 694 12 | what they say about the Snow, as they are quite futile, 695 13 | and their produce from the soil; and also cornfields (are 696 3 | Light because the Light soothed it, how do they say that 697 Note2 | Note of the electronic source~I have moved the footnotes 698 12 | day ; but in the remote south it is not even, a little 699 22 | Luminary may be abased, and the sovereignty of God may be made known. 700 7 | knowledge, and silent without speech, [P. 8.] and quiet without 701 22 | rest in it. But we have spoken this rapidly because we 702 26 | rends the veil which is spread over the face of the food ; 703 Note1 | Words in italics inside square brackets are to be regarded 704 6 | examination they cannot stand. ~ 705 14 | the proof which they offer stands against them. For there 706 34 | wisely acquire the custom by stealth, little by little, he is 707 33 | natural den! And if any one stimulates it to go forth thence, it 708 8 | But we have not come to stir up now the mire of Bardaisan ; 709 35 | faint, but in the new there stirs the ferment of its power 710 15 | and with these Stones had stoned him, then, lo, [Cf. p.xxi. 711 35 | The Golden Calf story applied to the Manichaeans. ~ 712 9 | they are dissolved with straightforward reasoning. [P. 10, l. 5.] 713 11 | For his sole purpose in stretching them out and arranging them 714 19 | demonstration. But let us strip it that it may appear bare 715 9 | puts on contentiousness is stripped bare by the persuasive arguments 716 2 | confused ending, things which strive with one another that it 717 15 | remain and turn again to struggle with pure souls ? . . . [ 718 12 | a little moistened. Very stupidly arranged, too, is the hollow 719 8 | is found to speak with subtlety, when he said that of seven 720 21 | no division, because its succession goes on uniformly, and does 721 Note1 | passages, where the text has suffered great mutilation, italics 722 28 | being emptied, and then it suffices for thirty days. ~Or is 723 Note1 | summarise the argument from suggestions in the fragments.]~[P.101] 724 Note1 | italics indicate an attempt to summarise the argument from suggestions 725 32 | to build the wall. ~And suppose a man says there were no 726 29 | Goodness and Justice to surround his place with a strong 727 3 | bitter to Darkness ? For the sweetness of our place bears witness 728 22 | of the Moon (also) by its swiftness and deficiency changes the 729 31 | escape from it by means of a sword, which, moreover, is not 730 28 | outside and go up, and be taken up to its place? [P. 33, 731 33 | Mani taught. ~But if they talk foolishly against these 732 8 | connection that Bardaisan, the teacher of Mani, is found to speak 733 13 | Mani teaches that the whole of creation ' 734 26 | that it should bite and tear in pieces that Manichaean 735 4 | should pain it, with their teeth they cause it to suffer 736 32 | would) have escaped from the ten thousand evils which encompass 737 Note1 | or to belong to a special terminology.~Words in italics inside 738 11 | piled up the mountains,"—we thank him that his falsehood is 739 31 | escape from the Body.] But I think that they are wiser than 740 21 | that the Moon rises at the third or fourth hour, and sets [ 741 32 | have escaped from the ten thousand evils which encompass them 742 30 | grace of the Creator, nor in thousands or myriads of years would 743 15 | and with [P. 15.] much toil, if the Sons of Light had 744 8 | sufficient. For behold our tongue is very eager to conclude 745 26 | that Manichaean ought to be tormented instead of it (i.e., the 746 3 | if that Prison-house, the tormentor of Darkness, is built up 747 3 | Darkness, a Nature cannot torture itself. For fire does not 748 3 | And if the Darkness is tortured by what belongs to itself— 749 3 | opposite and finally its torturer ? And if Light is an Element 750 27 | Primitive Light, but also 'felt, touched, ate, sucked, tasted, and 751 Note2 | has not been possible to transcribe the fragments of Syriac. 752 Note1 | lacunae are indicated in the translation by dots, and longer gaps 753 Note1 | regarded as conjectural translations or paraphrases.~In a few 754 26 | thence it was sent forth by a Transmigration (?) when the dog produced 755 26 | young ; and that Light was transmitted in the race of mad dogs 756 13 | i.e., Primal Man) made trees to be Furnaces." Yet they 757 33 | a great evil and bitter trouble for them as the celebrated 758 34 | much more is an Entity [troubled] if a man roots it up from 759 28 | and Mingling, how is the turbid Darkness able to handle 760 28 | heaviness ? And if they are pure turbidness has entered from some other 761 30 | whither Elijah went up in the twinkling of an eye. For a tower does 762 34 | thing to which a man is unaccustomed disables a man if he comes 763 4 | it is a Nature which is unchangeably pleasant. "For the Architect 764 | under 765 | unless 766 1 | refuted by its own nature, and unmasked by its own character; its 767 25 | sends (them) away to the Upper Places ? But they both are 768 27 | whole system is utterly upset as to the manner [Cf. pp. 769 21 | and also the Greeks, who use the reckoning of the Sun, 770 | used 771 12 | sky a strainer which is useless all summer, and even in 772 27 | perceive it, then by this short utterance their whole system is utterly 773 27 | utterance their whole system is utterly upset as to the manner [ 774 1(1)| Syriac Text of Discourses ii.-v., see pp. 1-185. ~ 775 30 | may not wear itself out in vain and fruitless efforts]. [ 776 23 | vessels themselves do not vanish. And since they call the 777 23 | them is emptied out and vanishes, those vessels themselves 778 33 | as moles in sepulchral vaults,8 as moths in clothing, 779 26 | contest with it, and rends the veil which is spread over the 780 6 | us—and the limbs with the veins bear them witness—that the 781 25 | Contrasted views of Bardaisan and Mani about 782 30 | should not be made. [Gen. viii.] [P. 36, l.22.] For the 783 26 | by means of the force and violence of the wind that thing which 784 35 | of its power and of its violent heat. (?) But [P. 44, l. 785 Note1 | Note from Vol. 1 Introduction, p. (10):~[ 786 Note2 | at the back of the paper volume. ~ 787 16 | being emptied ? It must wander about and be lost for lack 788 23 | the vessel itself wax and wane? ~And inasmuch as the Moon 789 21 | Moon, when it is full and wanes, makes a division for the 790 21 | completes thirty days in waning and waxing, it is clear 791 33 | is true.] as fish are in water, as moles in sepulchral 792 23 | how can the vessel itself wax and wane? ~And inasmuch 793 21 | thirty days in waning and waxing, it is clear that the Moon 794 30 | boldness that it may not wear itself out in vain and fruitless 795 34 | P. 42, l. 9.] it verily weeps when it goes forth,—how 796 32 | line and [P. 39, l.35.] weighed out axes (?) and set, the 797 | whenever 798 22 | place, and why not ? And, wherefore are eleven days lacking 799 | whether 800 | whoever 801 20 | persons whose intelligence is wholly dark. For just as he is 802 4 | their account says, "is one—whosoever he may be, whose name is 803 4 | not they who are not even willing to break bread lest "they 804 26 | force and violence of the wind that thing which is refined 805 35 | Testament. [The parable of the Wineskins applied to Jews and Manichaeans.] 806 34 | accustomed, if he does not wisely acquire the custom by stealth, 807 31 | But I think that they are wiser than their Father (i.e., 808 30 | Disputation; just as also they wished to build a Tower by which 809 26 | the School of Mani. For it wishes by its coldness to restrain 810 21 | because they are the only witnesses concerning them, and let 811 3 | its own nature ; just as a wolf does not oppose itself nor 812 17 | latter scattered. Now a woman is with child for a long 813 18 | limits and rise beyond their wont ? 814 33 | in clothing, as worms in wood, as maggots in barns, as 815 5 | the Evil One), then his work convinces us concerning 816 32 | where there was all this Working, and where there was this 817 22 | right that they should be worshipped. ~For if the numbering of 818 20 | as he is enlightened who worships the Lord of the Luminaries, 819 25 | Places ? But they both are wrong in both respects, so that 820 26(7)| see the Lisan-al-'Arab, xiv. 29, 19). ~ 821 16 | swallows it once more. [Cf. pp. xliv. 1.16; lxxxv. 1.4; lxxxix. 822 4 | Grave for Darkness? Cf. pp. xlvii., lxxv.~But if from the 823 28 | their repentance, [S. Luke xv. 7, 10.] He whose sole object 824 15 | stoned him, then, lo, [Cf. p.xxi. l. 32.] he would have come 825 4 | deaf-mute Stones? [Cf. p. XXXV. l. 32.]Therefore, there 826 | you 827 26 | when the dog produced young ; and that Light was transmitted 828 26 | called a Righteous one (ZADDIQA), has entered and become