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The Pearl
Seven hymns on the faith
St. Ephrem the Syrian · 4th century
St. Ephrem the Syrian · image, CC BY-SA 1.0
St. Ephrem holds up a pearl and finds in it a picture of Christ, the faith, the Church and the Virgin. Seven short hymns against those who try to pry into God with arguments.
A good first taste of St. Ephrem.
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About this edition
From 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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