The Syriac church of the fourth century: Ephraim the Syrian's Nisibene Hymns, Hymns on the Nativity and for the Epiphany, The Pearl, and three homilies, with Aphrahat the Persian Sage's Select Demonstrations and the editors' introduction. Modern English from the Post-Nicene Fathers translation.
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Ephraim: The Nisibene Hymns
1Nisibene Hymn 1: Like Noah in the Flood2Nisibene Hymn 2: Thanksgiving for the City’s Deliverance3Nisibene Hymn 3: Three Sieges, Three Hard Books4Nisibene Hymn 4: The Cry of the Little Ones5Nisibene Hymn 5: Chastened by My Helpers6Nisibene Hymn 6: The City Stripped Bare7Nisibene Hymn 7: Wrath Against the Greedy8Nisibene Hymn 9: Afflictions Like Job’s9Nisibene Hymn 10: My Children Have Been Slain10Nisibene Hymn 11: Your Chastening Is Like a Mother11Nisibene Hymn 12: The Power That Overcame Legion12Nisibene Hymn 13: Mar Jacob and His Companions13Nisibene Hymn 14: The Three Pastors14Nisibene Hymn 15: The Head and the Members15Nisibene Hymn 16: The Mirror16Nisibene Hymn 17: Abraham, Bishop of Nisibis17Nisibene Hymn 18: The Likeness of His Master18Nisibene Hymn 19: Your Flock Is Your Bride19Nisibene Hymn 20: The Name Set on the Flock20Nisibene Hymn 21: The Priest and the King21Nisibene Hymn 35: Our Lord, Death and Satan22Nisibene Hymn 36: Death Gives Up Adam23Nisibene Hymn 37: Death Weeps over Sheol’s Emptied Treasury24Nisibene Hymn 38: Death Is Thrown from His Throne25Nisibene Hymn 39: Death Remembers the Men of Old26Nisibene Hymn 40: Satan Boasts to His Servants27Nisibene Hymn 41: Satan Fears Jesus28Nisibene Hymn 42: The Bones of Thomas at Edessa29Nisibene Hymn 52: Satan and Death30Nisibene Hymn 53: Death and Satan Contend for Victory31Nisibene Hymn 54: The Dispute of the Two Servants32Nisibene Hymn 55: Taunts on Both Sides33Nisibene Hymn 56: The Counsel of Sin and Sheol34Nisibene Hymn 57: Death Mocks the Evil One35Nisibene Hymn 58: Death Curses Satan for the Cross36Nisibene Hymn 59: Death Takes Vengeance on Satan37Nisibene Hymn 60: The Evil One and the Sinful Woman38Nisibene Hymn 61: Death Blames the Living for Their Killing39Nisibene Hymn 62: Death Complains of Our Wailing40Nisibene Hymn 63: Death Honors the Bones of the Just41Nisibene Hymn 64: Satan Laughs at Our Mourning42Nisibene Hymn 65: The Seed Committed to the Earth43Nisibene Hymn 66: Death Gives Counsel to the Mourners44Nisibene Hymn 67: Death Convicts the People45Nisibene Hymn 68: The Slaves Who Became Lords