Ephrem the Syrian
4th century · AD 373 · Syriac & Oriental · 790 passages
A deacon and poet who taught Scripture in hymns, rich with imagery drawn from paradise, light, and the Eucharist.
Background on Ephrem the Syrian
In his own words on 1 Timothy
- 1 Timothy 1:9
The Lord touched the leper in order to show that the law was not an obstacle to him who had constituted the law.… The leper was afraid to touch the Lord lest he defile him. But the Lord touched the leper to show him that he would not be defiled, he, at whose rebuke the defilement fled from the defiled one. … Samson ate honey from the dead body of an impure animal, and with the jawbone of a dead ass he was victorious and rescued Israel. God gave him water from the dead jawbone.
COMMENTARY ON TATIAN'S DIATESSARON 12.21
Quoted verbatim from public-domain English translations of the fathers — Aquinas's Catena Aurea, the Ante-Nicene and Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers, and related editions. Each quotation links to its source.