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The thirteen Discourses of Philoxenos of Mabbug (445-523) were delivered to new monks at a monastery under his episcopal care. Written in elegant Syriac, the Discourses deal with the fundamentals of the monastic and ascetic life-faith, simplicity, fear of God, renunciation, and the struggle against the demons of gluttony and fornication. This is Philoxenos's longest work and his most popular. It avoids the strident character of his letters and commentaries that were composed to advance the anti-Chalcedonian movement.
This is the first English translation of an important Syriac text since the 1894 translation, now difficult to find. The introduction to this translation of the Discourses takes into account the scholarly work done and the books and articles published about Philoxenos in the past half century. There are no other titles in English that deal with the Discourses in this depth.
Contents
Contents
Preface vii
Introduction to the Discourses of Philoxenos of Mabbug xiii
List of Abbreviations lxxx
Mēmrā 1: Introduction 1
Mēmrā 2: On Faith 18
Mēmrā 3: On Faith 39
Mēmrā 4: On Simplicity 56
Mēmrā 5: On Simplicity 95
Mēmrā 6: On the Fear of God 126
Mēmrā 7: On the Fear of God 151
Mēmrā 8: On Renunciation of the World 176
Mēmrā 9: On Renunciation of the World 203
Mēmrā 10: On Gluttony 275
Mēmrā 11: On Asceticism 327
Mēmrā 12: On Fornication 386
Mēmrā 13: On Fornication 428
Bibliography 489
Biblical References 502
Index of Topics 509
