Who
Syriac bishop and poet, 'the flute of the Holy Spirit,' whose homilies on Mary supply the book's epigraph and an early witness to Mary as the Ark.
What Pitre quotes
- Homily 1 on the Blessed Virgin — 'It is easier to depict the sun with its light and its heat, than to tell the story of Mary in its splendor… Love moves me to speak of her' — the epigraph (p 7)
- Homily III on the Mother of God 671 — 'that maiden was the Ark of the Godhead'; as David danced before the Ark, John leaped in the womb before Mary (pp 61–62)