Who
Deacon of Nisibis and, after the city passed to Persia in 363, of Edessa; the greatest poet of the Syriac Church and a Doctor of the Church since 1920. His hymns (madrashe) on the Nativity, on Paradise, on Virginity, on Faith and the Nisibene Hymns, with the Commentary on the Diatessaron, teach by image and paradox rather than definition. He sings of Mary as the second Eve, the closed door and the ark, and of her purity in terms the later doctrine would make explicit.
Contents
In Jewish Roots of Mary
Who
Deacon, poet and theologian of Nisibis and Edessa, the greatest writer of the Syriac church, whose hymns on Mary are among the earliest and richest.
Quoted works
- Hymns on the Nativity 15.23 — Eve and Mary set against each other (p 36)
- Nisibene Hymns 27.8 — 'Only you and your Mother are more beautiful than everything… neither is there any stain in your Mother' (p 38)
- Commentary on the Diatessaron 2.6 — 'If Mary was blessed of women, she would have been exempt from the curse from the beginning' — the painless birth (p 135)
- Commentary on the Diatessaron 21.21 — 'the seal of the tomb witnessed in favour of the seal of the womb that had borne him' (p 137)
- Hymns on the Nativity 10.6–8 — 'The womb and the sepulcher being sealed were witnesses unto you' (p 137)
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