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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
The publication in two volumes by the “ Text and Translation Society ” of S. Ephraim's Prose Refutation of Mani, Marcion, and Bardaiṣān (1912–21) is an event in Syriac literature. Ephrem is the greatest Father of all the Syrian churches, and these two volumes contain, from the point of view of a modern scholar and theologian, the cream of his polemical writings. It was only two years ago that the Pope, as head of the Catholic Church, promoted the “ Edessene Deacon ” to the rank of a Doctor of the Universal Church, i.e. for all practical purposes, to the rank of a Thomas Aquinas.
page 524 note 1 In our nomenclature we generally follow the Eastern (Arabic) and not the Western (Greek) terminology. In the references the first number indicates the volume, the second the page, and the third the line.
page 525 note 1 Too much stress should not be laid on the value of this particle as quotation mark, because it is very often used expletively only.
page 526 note 1 This point is sufficiently emphasized in my edition of the works of Narsai. See vol. i, cap. iv of the Latin Introduction.
page 525 note 2 Attention has been drawn to this point in our new book Odes and Psalms of Solomon, vol. ii, p. 109.
page 529 note 1 Some copyists have, however, written it with a pé in an East Syrian way.
page 530 note 1 Syriac poetry is to be read according to the poetical licences, a good summary of which is found in Joseph David's Grammar and in my own.