Oriental wit and wisdom, or, the "Laughable stories" / collected by Mar Gregory John Bar-Hebraeus ; translated from the Syriac by E. A. Wallis Budge.

  • Bar Hebraeus
Date:
1899
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Credit: Oriental wit and wisdom, or, the "Laughable stories" / collected by Mar Gregory John Bar-Hebraeus ; translated from the Syriac by E. A. Wallis Budge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    because he was afraid for himself, but that he might warn his disciples not to fall. CXCII. Abba Ammon used to say, “There are some “men who might live in their cells for a hundred years, “and yet not know how it is meet for a recluse to “live therein V’ CXCIIL Abba Agathon said, “The man of anger “will never be accepted by man, even though one rose “from the dead.’^ CXCIV. Once when Abba Moses of Patra was batt¬ ling against fornication he went to Abba Isidore [for advice]. And Isidore took him up upon the roof of his house, and shewed him the hosts of devils waging war in the west and the angels who were gaining the mastery in the east. This he did to him so that Moses might be encouraged to fight, and he returned to his celP. vA^rdl .rdaJJo crA TJSflK' (fol. 245^2, No. 369). ^ The saying in full runs:—KlssK' r<!Aa .cn^xVniD rdk.'UxxA cn\ j3.i\ cucn.i .r^cico TsSoK' K'.icn .tm kAju cn-g^a-n V(fol. 262a, No. 495). ^ The full text runs:—K'^CVxlx.l r^lraTia .30^ r^CV^ in>001.1 K'ocn kAo rdz.a39 oo-Oqx^K'o AtK'o .cn^Vxis r<\.i .T^cv .Anxa r^o cn^vxixA r<lnoo cn^fXxViA cnxiooK'o cnis.i iaxOoK^.i K'vx* .ix) V^d .KlsiiJiai iO-jj .orA