Hymns and homilies of Ephraim the Syrian
Hymns and homilies of Ephraim the Syrian Hymn III. Fix thou our hearing, that it be not loosed and wander! 1. Fix thou our hearing, that it be not loosed and wander! For it is a-wandering if one enquire, who He is and what He is like. For how can we avail, to paint in us the likeness, of that Being which is like to the mind? Naught is there in it that is limited, in all of it He sees and hears; all of it as it were speaks; all of it is in all senses. R., Praise to the One Being, that is to us unsearchable! 2. His aspect cannot be discerned, that it should be portrayed by our understanding:...
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