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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    said unto him, “Go and enter a monastery of brethren, “and dwell with them if thou wishest to be perfect,” meaning thereby that to dwell [in peace] with the brethren was much more difficult than to live [friendlily] with wild animals. CCI. Abba Poemen said, “An evil nature is a wall “of brass between God and man.” ActA K'ocn ^ .T»x3C\ .rtli.Tk OQ-TJ K'ocn ,03 OOP .T^ fOliao 03d^^^\ d\=3TaC\ .r<lA_=3Cl^\ crA .irA T^.,nSkio crA ^oos .oojLOjnX.i .r<'.lQ3 K'^CUjj ytk r<LlJSP .‘tJSoK'o rtlnfio .Tnl cyA ^a.n3LO 'pxo ^ .,^CT3 oraxia ._ocnjii^^ jD-io K'Vm -Uw ^*.1 ood .,CT3al^^ ^ hAnx^o r^.TjjJ3730 r<^\inT. .’T^ rd3.T» ,03 KLrPoAo r^-app 003 .,030S«.io o3^\:^afiD ^vaioo rC^x^ys ^ -- ^-- - --*y. -^>,w Rosweyde^ Vifae Patrum, pp. 22%, 650, 732.