A discourse concerning Saint Ephrem:

That God went forth and the holiness of the nations and redeemed them: He looked, God saw in him and chose them. Within the sacrifices and the offerings of vanity: He hid His truth from the pride of the children of the blessed. He moved the name of the blessed one, it was upon his fear: and he set it as the treasure of the salvation of His Church. He called to the flyer amidst the nations from His arrangement: and he led him to the High One (to the dwelling)original: "lmotba" of the one who was persecuted. He adorned the Church with him, the spread one who was gathered: and he set him high to praise the creature.

He saw the glory of the children and the women from his ministry: and how he persecuted them to speak. And as if a river was flowing, he confessed to the youths: he chose a teacher and led the Savior to the Church for it. He was breaking it while he was standing among the women: that they might sing with voices the glory of the Son, amen. He was seeing the child of the children of the women, the knower: and he was speaking to them a new glory in a clear tongue. They were encircling him, the pages of blessed power: and instead of sweet songs . . . . . . . with loud voices. He taught them, the women, to sing: and that they should make groups with strong voices of life. And as these pillars were singing from him, Ephrem: like the sacrifices that he was speaking to them to praise. That Son who is in heaven (the exalted and the celestial)original: "mroma w'ilnaya" a new glory: to the One who redeemed you from the error of the Arameans.