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Ephrem the Syrian: Selected Hymns

J. B. Morris, J. T. Sarsfield Stopford and A. Edward Johnston; NPNF2-13 (1898) · Translated text

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Collection: Nisibene Hymns — Hymn XIII.

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[Hymn VIII. is wanting, as also the earlier part of IX.]