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This otherwise unknown West Syrian (monophysite) author has left an imaginative "Life of Abel" (ET).  He is probably not the same man as the Symmachus who wrote a commentary on "Song of Songs" 6:10-end, to supplement that of the Syriac translation of Gregory of Nyssa's commentary on that book.
 
This otherwise unknown West Syrian (monophysite) author has left an imaginative "Life of Abel" (ET).  He is probably not the same man as the Symmachus who wrote a commentary on "Song of Songs" 6:10-end, to supplement that of the Syriac translation of Gregory of Nyssa's commentary on that book.
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=== Bibliography ===
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* S. P. Brock, ''Le Museon'' 87 (1974) pp.467-92.  English translation.

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This otherwise unknown West Syrian (monophysite) author has left an imaginative "Life of Abel" (ET). He is probably not the same man as the Symmachus who wrote a commentary on "Song of Songs" 6:10-end, to supplement that of the Syriac translation of Gregory of Nyssa's commentary on that book.

Bibliography

  • S. P. Brock, Le Museon 87 (1974) pp.467-92. English translation.