The Eastern Cross/Library/The Nisibene Hymns
St. Ephrem's hymns from Nisibis, his home city on the Persian frontier, written during its sieges and after it was handed to Persia. The later hymns are on death, Satan and Christ's descent into Hades.
In those hymns death and Satan argue with each other, and Christ wins.
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About this edition
Translated by J. T. Sarsfield Stopford, in the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, second series, vol. 13 (1898), edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace.
This translation is in the public domain. We took the text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library and left out the editors’ footnotes.
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