Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Vol. 13 — Section 520
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series Vol. 13
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[341] An examination of this ms. leads to the conclusion that its scribe was probably well informed in this matter. Its principal contents are, the "Book of Rays" of Gregory Barhebræus and three of his minor works. Between the first named and that which follows is inserted the extract from Demonstr. XXIII., above specified (p. 156), headed as we have seen with the author's names and additions,--"Aphrahat, the Sage, who is Jacob Bishop of Mar Mathai." Now Gregory himself, as Maphrian, was Bishop of Mar Mathai, and died and was buried in that monastery in 1286. It may be conjectured that…
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