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The Church Fathers · c. 500–510
The Discourses
Philoxenus of Mabbug · c. 440–523
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What it is
Thirteen instructions for monks on faith, simplicity, the fear of God, gluttony and lust, written in a Syriac of unusual clarity and almost no polemic.
Why it lasted
The finest ascetic prose in Syriac, by a bishop otherwise known for the ferocity of his opposition to Chalcedon.
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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