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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    going in with the bride to the feast, he brought out from his bosom the Book of the Apostle Paul, and ad¬ monished and taught the young woman the words which were written therein by the blessed man on virginity, saying, “It is better for a man not to approach “a woman ^ and I would that all men should live even “as do I in purityand again [where] he saith, “The “woman who hath never known man meditateth upon “her Lord, that she may be holy^ in her body and in “her soul.’' With words such as these did he exhort his betrothed one, and they made their bodies temples to the Holy Spirit. CCX. One of the old men said, “If thou seest a “young man who lusteth to go up to heaven of his “own will, take hold of his leg and sweep him thence.” CCXI. One of the solitaries had so thoroughly dried up his body through the labour of fasting and prayer that the sun could be seen [shining] through his ribs. CT3^c\^ >Ocn Eventually Ammon’s wife thinks it better for herself and her husband to live wholly apart, and they do so (fob 54^? Of Abba Ammon). ^ I Corinthians vii. i. Bar-Hebraeus quotes the Peshitta Version. ^ I Corinthians vii. 6. ^ The Peshitta has 4 I Corinthians vii. 34.