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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    CXCVIII. One of the brethren asked Abba Sisoes, saying, “What wouldst thou do, O father, for I have “fallen?’^ Sisoes said to him, “Rise up,” and the brother said unto him, “I have fallen many times and risen up “[after them]. How long shall I continue to fall and “rise up.^” The old man said unto him, “Until death “shall overtake thee in one of them, I mean either in “rising up or in falling h” CXCIX. One of the brethren went into the world and married a woman, and when his master heard thereof he prayed and entreated God, saying, “O Lord, “permit not Thy servant to be dragged through the “mire of the world;” and when the betrothed man and his bride went in to sleep together, he gave up the ghost and was not united unto her. CC. One of the brethren was perfect to such a de¬ gree that even wild animals became his friends, and he used to nourish their young ^ Now a certain father icn KIaOx. K'caiKli vr^crAr^ ^ (fol. I75^^, No. 587). ^ In Palladius the text runs;—oa^r^isocssio Ar^z. r^r<' ,r<nS30 crA .WAj.i .Trxs^r^ KllZO .crA .drAAj .30^0 ,Cico •crA TJsjoK' .poOxi ^0^0 .ocn rCJwK' crA VSOK' .ToCVn ,rd^Sio crA C3C\^ crA orA ‘iioK' .Cm orA T.tjaK' .70013 Of^ Or^ .rdnflo .\\r^ cTi= Klxaia To.To^^.l vr<ljtjA ^ f^Q •i^'^OliA (fol. 2']6b, No. 592). ^ This story is told of Macarius of Alexandria, and in full reads:— f^ocn .T<Ui.'Uoa^r<' Qa»ijoio A^» oocn