Hymns and Sermons of Saint Ephrem the Syrian, Volume 1

our first volume. We have deferred the dissertation on the life and acts of Ephrem, and on his metric art—in which many things are still doubtful and uncertain—to another volume, waiting to see if perhaps some light, hidden until now in the codices, might shine forth to dissipate the shadows.

I was writing at Leuven on the feast day of Saint Joseph, the 19th of March, 1882.