{"id":44357,"date":"2023-03-27T14:41:03","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T13:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=44357"},"modified":"2023-03-27T14:41:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T13:41:03","slug":"a-translation-of-a-homily-by-ephraem-graecus-online-in-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2023\/03\/27\/a-translation-of-a-homily-by-ephraem-graecus-online-in-english\/","title":{"rendered":"A translation of a homily by Ephraem Graecus online in English!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some years ago I wrote a very long article here on whether pseudo-Ephraim testifies in the 4-5th century to a belief in the Rapture<\/a>; the idea that, before the Tribulation described in Revelation, the saints will all be caught up in the air by God and taken away.\u00a0 This is quite a controversial subject in the USA, and this means that quite ordinary people are willing to study the question; and, therefore, they are willing to study the deeply obscure and seriously neglected texts in question.\u00a0 I believe that they have been doing so since, although I find it impossible to get Google to tell me who or where; or, equally possibly, I put in the wrong search terms.<\/p>\n

The texts in question form part of the “Ephraem Graecus” and “Ephraem Latinus” corpuses of texts, which simply get no attention.\u00a0 I have a list of the Ephraem Graecus stuff here<\/a>.\u00a0 So it is very good for everyone that these are being worked on.\u00a0 I am very much in favour of theological disputes that lead to study and translation of texts that would never otherwise be examined.\u00a0 Everybody benefits.<\/p>\n

Today a kind correspondent wrote to me about passages in Ephraem Graecus which seem to teach the doctrine of the tribulation and the rapture.\u00a0 It seems that a chap named Lee W. Brainard has been blogging away, and has located and – better – translated 10 passages in the works of Ephraem Graecus that support this view!\u00a0 The article, entitled “Ephraim the Syrian \u2014 Ten Undiscovered Pretribulation-Rapture Passages”, online here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is great!\u00a0 Translations of this material is precisely what we need.\u00a0 No doubt some of the translation details will be cavilled at, mercilessly criticised, etc.\u00a0 This is inevitable.\u00a0 It is incredibly easy to write, loftily, about “translation defects” once some poor chap has taken a machete and laboriously chopped an English version out of the uncharted forests of the raw Greek.\u00a0 Doing the first translation is what sorts out the men from the boys.<\/p>\n

But better yet, I find that Mr Brainard has plunged in and translated one homily completely!\u00a0 This is CPG 3946, the “Sermo in adventum domini, et de consummatione saeculi, et in adventum antichristi”.\u00a0\u00a0He has placed it online as “Ephraim the Syrian \u2014 Sermon on the Advent, the End, and the Antichrist”, here<\/a>.\u00a0 Needless to say, I have stashed a copy offline, in these delicate days.<\/p>\n

Good news.\u00a0 Let’s hope he does more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some years ago I wrote a very long article here on whether pseudo-Ephraim testifies in the 4-5th century to a belief in the Rapture; the idea that, before the Tribulation described in Revelation, the saints will all be caught up in the air by God and taken away.\u00a0 This is quite a controversial subject in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[640],"class_list":["post-44357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-my-diary-announcements","tag-ephraem-graecus"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}