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See also:JACOB OF SERUGH , one of the best See also:Syriac authors, named by one of his biographers " the See also:flute of the See also:Holy Spirit and the See also:harp of the believing See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church," was See also:born in 451 at Kurtam, a See also:village on the See also:Euphrates to the See also:west of Varian, and was probably educated at See also:Edessa. At an See also:early See also:age he attracted the See also:attention of his countrymen by his piety and his See also:literary gifts, and entered on the See also:composition of the See also:long See also:series of metrical homilies on religious themes which formed the See also:great See also:work of his See also:life. Having been ordained to the priesthood, he became periodeutes or episcopal visitor of Ilaura, in Serugh, not far from his birthplace. His See also:tenure of this See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office extended over a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of great trouble to the See also:Christian See also:population of See also:Mesopotamia, due to the fierce See also:war carried on by See also:Kavadh II. of See also:Persia within the See also:Roman See also:borders. When on the loth of See also:January 503 Amid was captured by the Persians after a three months' See also:siege and all its citizens put to the See also:sword or carried See also:captive, a panic seized the whole See also:district, and the Christian inhabitants of many neighbouring cities planned
7 An affirmative See also:answer is given by See also:Wiseman (See also:Horne syr. pp. 181-8) and See also:Wright (See also:Catalogue 1168; Fragm. of the Syriac See also:Grammar of Jacob of Edessa, See also:preface; See also:Short Hist. p. 151 seq.). But See also:- MARTIN (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
Martin (in Jour. As. May–See also:June 1869, pp. 456 sqq.), See also:Duval (Grammaire syriaque, p. 71) and Merx (op. cit. p. 5o) are of theopposite See also:opinion. The date of the introduction of the seven Nestorian vowel-signs is also uncertain.
to leave their homes and flee to the west of the Euphrates. They were recalled to a more courageous See also:frame of mind by the letters of Jacob.' In 519, at the age of 68, Jacob was made See also:bishop of Batnan, another See also:town in the district of Serugh, but only lived till See also:November 521.
From the various extant accounts of Jacob's life and from the number of his known See also:works, we gather that his literary activity was unceasing. According to Barhebraeus (Chron. See also:Eccles. i. 191) he employed 70 amanuenses and wrote in all 76o metrical homilies, besides expositions, letters and See also:hymns of different sorts. Of his merits as a writer and poet we are now well able to See also:judge from P. Bedjan's excellent edition of selected metrical homilies, of which four volumes have already appeared (See also:Paris 1905—1908), containing 146 pieces.' They are written throughout in dodecasyllabic See also:metre, and those published See also:deal mainly with biblical themes, though there are also poems on such subjects as the deaths of Christian martyrs, the fall of the idols, the See also:council of See also:Nicaea, &c.3 Of Jacob's See also:prose works, which are not nearly so numerous, the most interesting are his letters, which throw See also:light upon some of the events of his time and reveal his See also:attachment to the Monophysite See also:doctrine which was then struggling for supremacy in the Syrian churches, and particularly at Edessa, over the opposite teaching of See also:Nestorius.' (N.
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