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By the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, we begin to write the agaryata letters and profitable discourses that were composed by the holy and wise fathers who were at that time in the holy monastery of Qenneshre a famous monastic center on the Euphrates in Mesopotamia, which they sent to the monks, the masters of the islands, Ephesus, and Cyriacus.

INDEX

Of this book and the number of its pages, made by the holy [and] excommunicated Ignatius of Behnam.

On the reading or construction of the index

PROFITABLE LETTERS

Discourse

Number of pages which are inside this letter or of its composition original: "diptekhona" (lit. diptych/register) (¹)

1 . . . . . . . . . Introduction.
2

3 . . . . . . . . . Life of the blessed one of Ephesus.
3

7 . . . . . . . . . Discourse of the fathers of Qenneshre.
4

10 . . . . . . . . . Regarding master Abraham who was in the monastery of Qenneshre, [concerning] how [he lived].
5

12 . . . . . . . . . Regarding master Cyriacus.
6

12 . . . . . . . . . On the temperance of the monastery of Mesopotamia.
7

13 . . . . . . . . . Regarding the blessed Mar Abba-Dana.
8

14 . . . . . . . . . Regarding the various times that they spent in that holy monastery.
9

16 . . . . . . . . . Regarding the holiness of Mar Abba.
10

18 . . . . . . . . . How the blessed Mar Abba began the monastic life in [the time of] two.
11

20 . . . . . . . . . How the blessed Mar Abba began with the brethren in [the time of] three.
12

. . . . . . . . . Regarding the habit monastic clothing which they did not change, and the fear of God [present in] all the monks, and the two holy [men of] the temperance of Mesopotamia.
21 . . . . . . . . .

(1) That register. See Discourse 1.