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The Church Fathers · c. 350–373
Hymns on Paradise
Ephrem the Syrian · c. 306–373
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What it is
Fifteen hymns imagining paradise as a mountain of ascending terraces, reading Genesis through image and paradox rather than argument.
Why it lasted
The finest poetry of the patristic age in any language, and theology conducted entirely in metaphor.
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Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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