Wednesday, December 8, 2021

Seasonal Thought from Ephrem the Syrian

  

Man [lit. Adam] imposed corruption on woman when she came forth from him;

today she has repaid him—she who bore for him the Savior. (Hymns on the Nativity 1:14, as found in Kathleen E. McVey, trans., Ephrem the Syrian: Hymns [Classics of Western Spirituality; New York: Paulist Press, 1989], 65)