S. EPHRAIM’S QUOTATIONS
FROM THE GOSPEL
COLLECTED AND ARRANGED
BY
F. CRAWFORD BURKITT M.A.
CAMBRIDGE
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
1901
THIS book is an attempt to determine what text of the Gospels was used in the genuine works of S. Ephraim, and to investigate the bearing of his quotations upon the date of the Peshitta. S. Ephraim, commonly known as Ephraem Syrus, is the only one of the worthies of the Syriac-speaking Church whose name is well known both in the East and the West, and his surviving works, even when all doubtful and spurious pieces have been set on one side, are by themselves as voluminous as all the other remains of Syriac literature earlier than 400 AD. He himself died about 373 AD, so that any version of the Bible used by him must be at least as old as the fourth century.