Acts of the Martyrs and Saints, Volume 3

A discourse concerning Saint Ephrem:

Concerning his compositions and his prayers: He looked, he saw upon all the earth as: his shadow fell by the days of darkness and they are straightened: To whom he gives: to the proud who were not God and he separated them: he cast his yoke upon the ministers and he enslaved them: he planted for them living churches and he illuminated them: he was hidden upon the abysses and he commanded them: he built for them beings of life and he loved them: he drew the drawers and cast the days, he pursued them: he brought rest to souls in new paths and he redeemed them: he built for the dwellings and he redeemed the captives, he gave them rest: he set for the laborers and one of their masters and he proclaimed them: (And for the dwellings?) in the silence of the days he arranged them: he rode to the shining Persians who were in: he saw that which was: and he redeemed and he blossomed (flames?) in the hand by the ministers he released to the night that enlightened their lives for them, the watchers: and redemption comes forth in love the day from the house of their dwellings: he commanded by hand to the generations of the joyful he found their souls: and he redeemed the light-filled soul of the dark ones from within his own soul: he drew redemptions upon the drawers that were exhausted: and his soul released to the transient tabernacles: he was seeing death in that grace his redeemers: and he cast and the liberator of glory to the heavens of the light-filled ones in him: he praised all of them to the Lord, the One who was hidden: upon the Medes and by the hand of the ministers he cast them: and he threw in glory he to them their worthiness: that all might praise to the Lord and he praised by the hand of all.

(1) And for the dwellings. (2) Flames.