Historical Writings of John of Ephesus

And because the Son was distanced from the Father, for the redemption of humanity, he could not be. For how, apart from us, would he cast himself as our life, unless in us, in our own souls? And thus our souls [are] in the unified life, for the blessed one has a soul. 7 v. a. And his workmanship—it was this, how that which he cast like the word of the blessed one into that humanity, while he swallowed all wickedness and cast it away, and clothed it in the garment of power. At a time when the [mystery] of the bodily [presence] was not known to him, how even that wonder, which was of the dew, was substituted in sweetness, in the uprightness of the essence, so that he would not be known to the fear of death, not from now. And if the likeness of death and the changing of death is not found, as he enters toward him, for he sends a departure toward the blessed one, as to how he should pray for him that he might depart. And immediately he asks of him a petition. And when this word was spoken to him, he went and saw him and asked for him, and said to him: "Behold, I am ready." And the blessed one cast [a] prayer, and at that very hour, he was released over him. And he was relieved for the elder, and he rejoiced, because it was because of the stillness Syriac: shalya - referring to a state of ascetic quietude or interior peace that something happened to him, and it was easy for him to pray for him so that he might be healed. And he did all that he commanded, because that blessed one said to him: "Behold, you have awakened, because you tested the Lord as if you were an unbeliever; and I am asking." And the anointing/healing which the blessed one had, fell upon him, and by his power, he was carrying him in everything, only in that which the Church and the shadow that was made for him 7 v. b. [and] he was stillness [to] his thoughts of likeness. He did not establish, but from that, in temporality and from these whisperings, he fled. For he understood the power of the prayer of the elder, the prosyutha persuasiveness/intercession over him, the manifestations which in all the fear and in all time were visible. And in the service, they were visibly in the church: that which is the image and the blood of the coming [one], he was fenced; everyone who was heard at the time in the spirit. And the reputation of the blessed one was radiant, at the time to a great distance, because he distanced himself, he understood and lived the guardian of the monastic life that was, and all the fear toward him was known. And from the ammanya mother/maternal figure, how it was in humanity, he was in the house, because the action [was] a mystery.