Friday, December 31, 2021

John the Baptist being the Greatest "among those born of women" in Ephrem's Commentary on Tatian's Diatessaron

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    There is none [greater] among those born of women . With regard to the prophets, he was more eminent than they, although born of a wom...

The theology of baptism in Ephrem the Syrian (306-373) vs. Feeneyism

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In his commentary on Tatian's Diatessaron, it appears that  Ephrem the Syrian (306-373) believed one would appropriate the saving graces...

Carmel McCarthy on the dating of Chester Beatty MS 709

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    The vellum manuscript acquired by Sir Chester Betty in 1957 contains a total of seventy-five folios and consists of two clearly distin...

Mark 13:32 and the "Divine Deception" Apologetic of Ephrem the Syrian (306-373)

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    [ No one knows that day, neither an angel nor the Son . This is like what he said, Depart from me, cursed of my Father, into the etern...

Ephrem the Syrian (306-373) on the use of Hosea 11:1 in Matthew 2:15

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    [Because Israel, symbolically called “son” since Egypt, had lost its sonship through having worshipped Baal and offered incense to ido...

Ephrem the Syrian (306-373) on the Reason for Jesus Coming into the World

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A few days late, but some Christmas-themed thoughts from Ephrem the Syrian:     [Why did our Lord clothe himself with our flesh? So that t...
Thursday, December 30, 2021

The use of Amos 3:7 in Revelation 10:5-7 and the lack of "warning judgments"

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  An objection I have seen raised against the Latter-day Saint appeal to Amos 3:7, a common “proof-text” used to support the need for modern...