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Aphrahat the Persian Sage · c. 340 AD

Ante-Nicene Fathers (Roberts–Donaldson), Roberts, Donaldson, and Coxe (eds.), Ante-Nicene Fathers, Buffalo: Christian Literature Publishing, 1885–1887; digitized by CCEL.

The earliest Syriac Christian theologian; presbyter (and perhaps bishop) in the Persian Empire. His twenty-two Demonstrations, arranged according to the letters of the Syriac alphabet, are the earliest sustained witness to Christian theology written outside the Greco-Roman world — antedating the Nicene controversy in its specifically Greek terms.

Contents

  1. Title Page.
  2. Letter of an Inquirer.
  3. Of Faith.
  4. Of Wars.
  5. Of Monks.
  6. Of the Resurrection of the Dead.
  7. Of Pastors.
  8. Of Christ the Son of God.
  9. Of Persecution.
  10. Of Death and the Latter Times.