Church Fatherc. 306–373

Ephrem the Syrian

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.

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)

PassageEphrem — 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)
PassageEphrem — 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)
PassageEphrem — Hymns on the Nativity 10.6–8
'The womb and the sepulcher being sealed were witnesses unto you' (p 137)
PassageEphrem — Hymns on the Nativity 15.23
Eve and Mary set against each other (p 36)
PassageEphrem — Nisibene Hymns 27.8
'Only you and your Mother are more beautiful than everything… neither is there any stain in your Mother' (p 38)

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