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Every master of the Josephia Josephian order/school is known from the excellent, abundant works of the scholar of the Church, our Lord Laundos likely a Latinized or specific historical reference, and he is entrusted to the true administration of the Syriac Church, the beautiful Bar Hebraeus Son of the Hebrew. He is the one who, in the fortunate decisions that come from the experienced words and the teachers of the generations who preceded them—the thousands of their revelations and the refined laws that they learned from the conduct of the distinguished, clear streams—lived rightly in the administration of the entire Syriac gathering, patiently to assist in the quiet Josephian manner, and to satisfy the ancient antiquity, which is his concern. It is the wisdom of the deed that guides the name of Bar Hebraeus, the one who compiled the book for all lands and is beautifully alive. And in this shadow, the writings reveal the secrets of the true structures, and in the right way, he aided the Josephian persuasion. To this copy of the divine things, the whole living soul cried out and sought after: that the four teachers, in their choices and their complete holiness, are of those who, in our time, our Lord the Bishop, famous for his perfection, knew the copies of these lives, which are:
A: The Adiaman Adiyaman copy: Relying on the thousands of the elect, it was written in the lifetime of the head of the deacons, by the hands of the monk Yohannis John, from the section of the monastery of our Father Zaki Zacchaeus the martyr.
B: The Bilan copy: Written in its excellence by the hand of our Lord Father Jacob, teacher in the year 1488 AD, by the hands of the living Bishop.
C: The Beth-Sahda House of the Witness copy: Found by the hands of the servant Abdelhay Servant of the Living of Beth-Sahda, from Habbab in the year 1891, and its print in the year 1892, telling of the divinity and placing the archaeology study of ancient things upon it in its printing.
D: The Azaz copy: In its printing in the year 1877 AD, by Yohannan John Joseph Azaz, in the days of Patriarch Peter IV.
The quiet supplications and the holy blessings in these copies are glorious, they...