"This Jesus has made so many symbols | that I have fallen into the sea of them" (trans. Sebastian Brock, The harp of the Spirit: eighteen poems of St. Ephrem, 2nd enlarged ed., Studies supplementary to Sobernost 4 (Fellowship of St. Alban and St. Sergius, 1983), 16).
"This Jesus has multiplied for us mysteries. Amid billows of mysteries have I fallen, which show me in parable the life of the dead, in all mysteries and in all types" (trans. Stopford, NPNF, 2nd ser., vol. 13 (1898), p. 202; CCEL).
"Hic Jesus multiplicavit nobis typos, incidi in mare typorum, qui mihi parabolizant resurrectionem mortuorum omnimodis figuris et imaginibus" (trans. Bickell, Carmina Nisibena (1866), 157; Syriac, 70 ff.).
ܗܢܐ ܝܫܘܥ ܐܣܓܝ ܠܢ ܪ̈ܙܐ
ܒܝܬ ܓ̈ܠܠܐ ܕܐܪ̈ܙܘܗܝ ܢܦܠܬ ܕܐܡܬܠ ܠܢ ܚܝܬ ܡ̈ܝܬܐ
ܒܟܠ ܪ̈ܙܝܢ ܘܒܟܠ ܛܘ̈ܦܗܝܢ
St. Ephraem the Syrian, Carmina Nisibena 39.17. Original Syriac (which I do not read, and, so, may well have mangled): CSCO 240, Scriptores Syri 102.2, ed. Beck (1963), p. 27 l. 25-p. 28 l. 1. Selectable.
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