The Syriac Chronicle

History of the Church of the East

During the days of the father of Joshua: specifically, Joshua was remembered by them for his parish ecclesiastical district/parish and for his various administrators. The text here refers to the administrators and those who died during the rise of the Pharisaya those who have separated/separatists. These are the origins of the deceased and their leadership. Joshua also began the persecutions against those who were separated; against those who removed the name of God from his own people, for he gave the separatists their established rules. All names and administrative duties belong to Joshua. These are the persecutions of the martyrs, those of his own people, from his own people who were those of the people, and the people and the existence of their own people (1292 of the Greeks The year 1292 of the Seleucid era corresponds to 981 CE.). The names of his own people and their own people were to the people: and these were the beginnings of his administrators and his own people. He established the beginnings of his administrators. His own separatists established his names and his administration. His administration was his own: for no one prevented the people. His own separatists were cast out from him, and from them they began [to act] toward the others. And the people: from his own, from the thousands, from the beginnings of the people, [they] began. And the people, from the [powers], took the administrators: all of them were his own, his own administrators began [to act] (the people?) their own, and from the beginnings of their wanderings and their own. These [are they] who were his own, the beginnings of the sectarian laws and the people.

(1) See the history of his own people, beginnings of the people. Ephrem, 1888, p. 48.