Origin and history of the books of the Bible, both the canonical and the apocryphal, designed to show what the Bible is not, what it is, and how to use it . ainst Sabellius and also against Paul of Samosata;during the Valerian persecution he was driven intoexile; and after a most unquiet life he died in his numerous writings we have only fragmentsremaining, which have been collected and published. Ephraem the Syrian was born at Nisibis in Mesopo-tamia, became abbot of the cloister in Edessa, and diedin 378. He was a voluminous writer in the Syrianlanguage; his works were highly esteemed
Origin and history of the books of the Bible, both the canonical and the apocryphal, designed to show what the Bible is not, what it is, and how to use it . ainst Sabellius and also against Paul of Samosata;during the Valerian persecution he was driven intoexile; and after a most unquiet life he died in his numerous writings we have only fragmentsremaining, which have been collected and published. Ephraem the Syrian was born at Nisibis in Mesopo-tamia, became abbot of the cloister in Edessa, and diedin 378. He was a voluminous writer in the Syrianlanguage; his works were highly esteemed; they weretranslated into Greek and read in many churches. Aswe have already observed, the text of the New Testa-ment itself was in one instance at least obliterated tofurnish parchment for a copy of Ephraems Sermons;a symbol of what has often happened in the Christianchurch since his time. His works have been frequentlyand very handsomely published. Epiphanius was of Jewish origin, and born in a vil-lage near Jerusalem about the year 310. After hisconversion to Christianity he became a Monk in Pales-tine and was afterwards made bishop of Salamis in. THE ONE HUNDRED WITNESSES. 115 the island of Cyprus. He was full of zeal againstheretics, and among his other writings is a ponderouswork against 80 heresies. He assailed with great energyJohn, bishop of Jerusalem, on account of his supposedattachment to the principles of Origen, and endeav-ored, though in vain, to enlist Chrysostom in his cru-sade against Origenism. He did not begin to be anauthor till after he was sixty, and pursued the callingwith characteristic zeal and industry till he was pastninety. He died while returning from a long journeywhich he had made in his zeal against Origenism. Hisworks are hasty, fiery, and full of mistakes, but valua-ble on account of the many quotations which he makesfrom ancient writings now lost. For his time he wasa remarkable linguist, being acquainted with Hebrew,Syrian, Egyptian, Greek
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