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The Death of Saint Ephrem the Syrian, Emanuele Zanfurnari

The Nisibene Hymns

Emanuele Zanfurnari, The Death of Saint Ephrem the Syrian, 17th century · Pinacoteca Vaticana · Public domainEmanuele Zanfurnari, The Death of Saint Ephrem the Syrian, 17th century, Pinacoteca Vaticana

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Ephrem the Syrian, The Nisibene Hymns. Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 13 (Schaff and Wace, 1898), public domain.

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  • The Nisibene Hymns Hymn 1 — 1. O God of mercies Who didst refresh Noah, he too refreshed Thy mercies. He offered sacrifice and stayed the flood; he presented gifts and received the promise. With prayer and incense he propitiated Thee: with an…vatican.va
  • The Nisibene Hymns Hymn 2 — 1. This day are opened, our mouths to give thanks. They who opened the breaches, have opened my sons’ mouths. Thank the Merciful, who has delivered the men of our city, nor thought at that time of exacting the debts…vatican.va
  • The Nisibene Hymns Hymn 3 — 1. Fix thou our hearing, that it be not loosed and wander! For it is a-wandering if one enquire, who He is and what He is like. For how can we avail, to paint in us the likeness, of that Being which is like to the…vatican.va
  • The Nisibene Hymns Hymn 4 — 1. My God, without ceasing, I will tread the threshold of Thy house; I who have rejected all grace, I will ask with boldness, that I may receive with confidence. R., Our hope, be thou our Wall! 2. For if, O Lord, the…vatican.va
  • The Nisibene Hymns Hymn 5 — 1. Cause to be heard in Thy grace, the tidings of Thy salvation: for an hearing has been made, a path of passage; our minds have been downtrodden, by messages of terror. R., Praises to Thy victory! Glory to Thy…vatican.va
  • The Nisibene Hymns Hymn 6 — 1. I will run in my affections, to Him who heals freely. He who healed my sorrows, the first and the second, He who cured the third, He will heal the fourth. R., Heal me, Thou Son the First Born! 2. My sons, O my…vatican.va
  • The Nisibene Hymns Hymn 7 — 1. Wrath came to rebuke, the greedy who in the midst of peace, bargained, defrauded and plundered. In calamity the greedy have waxed rich: lo! what was theirs they have scattered, what was not theirs they have…vatican.va
  • The Nisibene Hymns Hymn 9 — …My afflictions are as Job’s. Thy justice delivered him; let Thy grace have mercy on me! 2. In these two things is profit; that neither should the just, be weary in supplication, nor should the rebellious, multiply…vatican.va
  • The Nisibene Hymns Hymn 10 — 1. My children have been slain; and my daughters that are without me,—their walls are overthrown, their children scattered,—and their holy places trodden down. R., Blessed is Thy chastisement! 2. The fowlers have…vatican.va
  • The Nisibene Hymns Hymn 11 — 1. Thy chastening is, as a mother of our infancy:—her rebuke is merciful, in that Thou hast restrained,—the children from folly, and they have been made wise! R., Glory be to thy justice! 2. Let us search out Thy…vatican.va
  • The Nisibene Hymns Hymn 12 — 1. I will call in my affliction, on the Power that subdues all;—that is able to subdue, the Captor in his wrath,—as it overcame Legion. R., Glory to His grace! 2. The Evil One has repaid me my brethren, debts that he…vatican.va
  • The Nisibene Hymns Hymn 13 — Concerning Mar Jacob and his Companions. 1. Three illustrious priests, after the manner of the two great lights,—have carried on and handed down one to another, the See and the Hand and the Flock.—To us whose…vatican.va
  • The Nisibene Hymns Hymn 14 — 1. Under the three pastors,—there were manifold shepherds;—the one mother that was in the city,—had daughters in all regions.—Since Wrath has destroyed her dwellings,—Peace shall build up her churches. R. Blessed be…vatican.va
  • The Nisibene Hymns Hymn 15 — 1. If the head had not been right,—haply the members had murmured:—for when because of a perverse head—the course of the members is put astray,—they are wont to lay the blame on the head. R. Blessed be He who chose…vatican.va
  • The Nisibene Hymns Hymn 16 — 1. Herein is a mirror to be blamed,—if its clearness is darkened—because there are spots on its substance;—for the foulness that is on it becomes—a covering before them that look on it. R. Blessed be He Who polished…vatican.va
  • The Nisibene Hymns Hymn 17 — Concerning Abraham, Bishop of Nisibis. 1. Suffer, O Lord, that even my lowliness, should cast into Thy treasury its farthing, even as the merchant of our flock, who made increase of his talent of Thy doctrine, and…vatican.va
  • The Nisibene Hymns Hymn 18 — 1. O thou who art made priest after thy master, the illustrious after the excellent, the chaste after the grave, the watchful after the abstinent, thy master from thee has not departed; in the living we see the…vatican.va
  • The Nisibene Hymns Hymn 19 — 1. Thou who answerest to the name of Abraham, in that Thou art made father of many; but because to Thee none is spouse, as Sarah was to Abraham,—lo! Thy flock is Thy spouse; bring up her sons in Thy truth; spiritual…vatican.va
  • The Nisibene Hymns Hymn 20 — 1. O virgin-youth that art become bridegroom, move to a little jealousy thy mind, towards her who is the wife of thy youth: cut off the attachments which she had, in her girlhood with many others; rebuke her and call…vatican.va
  • The Nisibene Hymns Hymn 21 — 1. John who was a torch, laid bare and rebuked the wanton ones: they made haste and quenched the torch, that they might let loose the desire of their lust. Be thou a lamp in brightness, and make the works of darkness…vatican.va
  • The Nisibene Hymns Hymn 22 — XXXIV. [XXII.–XXV. (wanting); XXVI. (only a fragment remains); XXVII.–XXXIV. (relate to Edessa and Carrhæ).]vatican.va
  • The Nisibene Hymns Hymn 35 — Concerning Our Lord, and Concerning Death and Satan. 1. The Voice made proclamation: and they gathered and came; the hosts of the Evil One, together with his ministers. The army of the tares was gathered altogether,…vatican.va
  • The Nisibene Hymns Hymn 36 — 1. Our Lord subdued His might and constrained it, that His living death might give life to Adam. His hands He gave to the piercing of the nails, instead of the hand that plucked the fruit: He was smitten on the cheek…vatican.va
  • The Nisibene Hymns Hymn 37 — 1. Death was weeping for her, even for Sheol, when he saw her treasury that it was emptied. And he said, Who, then, has plundered thy riches? Gehazi stole and was discovered; I am stealing every day, but theft has…vatican.va
  • The Nisibene Hymns Hymn 38 — 1. My throne was set for me in Sheol: and one arose that was dead, and hurled me from it. Every man feared me alone, and I feared no man. Terror and trouble were among the living, rest and peace among the dead. In a…vatican.va
  • The Nisibene Hymns Hymn 39 — 1. There have come to me ransomers from among the saints, but none has plundered me like the Son of Mary. For lo! Elijah brought a dead man to life; and even though he himself escaped from my hands, yet had I…vatican.va
  • The Nisibene Hymns Hymn 40 — 1. The Evil One perceived his great humiliation, and boasted himself in the presence of his servants: he spoke great words to persuade them and said: “The knowledge which I possess, little of it is by nature; and…vatican.va
  • The Nisibene Hymns Hymn 41 — 1. The Evil One said, “I fear Him, even Jesus, lest He destroy my arts. For lo! I am thousands of years old, and never have I had repose. I have seen nothing established, that I have turned from and left. There has…vatican.va
  • The Nisibene Hymns Hymn 42 — 1. The Evil One wailed “Where now, is there a place for me to flee to from the righteous? I stirred up Death to slay the Apostles, that I might be safe from their blows. By their deaths now more exceedingly am I…vatican.va
  • The Nisibene Hymns Hymn 52 — Concerning Satan and Death. 1. I heard Death and Satan, as they disputed, which was the more powerful, among men. R., To Thee be glory, Son of the Shepherd of All, Who deliveredst His flock from the secret wolves…vatican.va
  • The Nisibene Hymns Hymn 53 — 1. Come, let us hear how they contend for victory: the guilty ones who never have conquered, nor will conquer.—2. Death said unto the Evil One, In the end the victory is mine: for Death is master of the close, as a…vatican.va
  • The Nisibene Hymns Hymn 54 — 1. Hear, O Freedom, the dispute of two servants: how they are convicted by each other, that they are powerless.—2. R., To Thee be glory by Whose humiliation Adam was exalted: and by Whose death he was raised, and…vatican.va
  • The Nisibene Hymns Hymn 55 — 1. Lo! the Evil One reproached Death, and was in turn reproached: from each and to each and against each, were their taunts.—2. R., To Thee be glory, Son of the Lord of All, Who diedst for all: for He was raised to…vatican.va
  • The Nisibene Hymns Hymn 56 — 1. With Freedom is thy struggle, O Evil One: it can cast on thee a muzzle, if it so please.—2. R., To Thee be glory in whose victory we have gained strength: and in whose resurrection we defy even Death itself!—3.…vatican.va
  • The Nisibene Hymns Hymn 57 — 1. Listen, my brethren, to Death, mocking the Evil One: that caused the head of our race to sin, and its mother.—2. R., To Thee be glory that by Thy humiliation, Satan is subdued: and that Thy abasement has exalted…vatican.va
  • The Nisibene Hymns Hymn 58 — 1. Lo! Death was prompt beforehand, to mock Satan: him who was doomed to become a mockery at the last.—2. R., Glory to Thee Who by Thy crucifixion, didst conquer the Evil One: and by Thy resurrection gain victory,…vatican.va
  • The Nisibene Hymns Hymn 59 — 1. Lo! Death for us on Satan, inflicts vengeance: come let us hear his shame and rejoice, for he rejoiced in our shame.—2. R., To Thee be glory from Thy flock, from Thee: are subdued both Death and Satan, under Thy…vatican.va
  • The Nisibene Hymns Hymn 60 — 1. O what amazement befel the Evil One, of a sudden, my brethren: when the sinful woman was corrected, and gained Wisdom!—2. R., Glory to the One Who alone, conquered the Evil One; and to Him yea Him be also…vatican.va
  • The Nisibene Hymns Hymn 61 — 1. In wisdom let us hearken to Death, O my beloved: how he accuses us for our weeping, and for our mourning.—2. R., To thee be praise Who cameth down, to follow Adam: and foundest Adam and also in the children of…vatican.va
  • The Nisibene Hymns Hymn 62 — 1. Lo! Death, the King of silence, complains, my brethren: that we have filled his abode with the wailing, of Hope cut off.—2. R., To Him be great praise Who comest down, to us here below: and suffered and rose again…vatican.va
  • The Nisibene Hymns Hymn 63 — 1. Who shall weigh the recompense of Abraham? whom I marvelled at when he bound, his only son.—2. R., To thee be glory, Voice that bringest to life the dead in Sheol: and they have come up as preachers, of His Son…vatican.va
  • The Nisibene Hymns Hymn 64 — 1. O feeble ones, why weep ye, over your dead: who in death are at rest from sorrows and sins?—2. R., Glory to Him Who endured all, for the sake of all men: yea tasted death for the sake of all, to bring all to…vatican.va
  • The Nisibene Hymns Hymn 65 — 1. Man, O Death, despise thou it not, that image of Adam: which like a seed is committed to earth, till the Resurrection.—2. R., To thee be glory Who didst descend and plunge, after Adam: and draw him out from the…vatican.va
  • The Nisibene Hymns Hymn 66 — 1. Hold your peace, O mortals (said Death), a little while: and be like me who am so silent, in the midst of Sheol.—2. R., To Thee be glory, Watcher, that didst come down, after them that slept: and utter the voice…vatican.va
  • The Nisibene Hymns Hymn 67 — 1. Come ye, let us hear how Death convicts the People: that harsher than Death was their sword, against the just.—2. R., To Thee be glory, Who by Thy sacrifice, hast redeemed our disgrace: and Whose death was instead…vatican.va
  • The Nisibene Hymns Hymn 68 — 1. Man., O, Death, be not thou boastful, over the just: the sons of thy Lord who at His command, come to dwell with thee.—2. R., To thee be glory that by Thy command, Death has reigned: and by Thy Resurrection has…vatican.va

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