Syriac Patrology, Part One, Volume One: The Demonstrations of Aphrahat the Persian Sage

Volume one of Patrologia Syriaca, edited under the direction of René Graffin and published by Firmin-Didot in Paris in 1894. This is the first installment of an unfinished critical series intended to gather the surviving Syriac Christian literature with parallel Latin translation. The volume is given over entirely to Aphrahat (Aphraates) the Persian Sage (c. 270–c. 345), whose twenty-three Demonstrations are the earliest substantial Syriac Christian writings to survive. It contains the Epistola Interrogatoris (the letter of the unnamed correspondent who prompted the work) and Demonstrations I–XXII; Demonstration XXIII (De Acino) appears in the second volume of the series. The Syriac text was edited from the British Museum, Vatican, and Paris manuscripts and translated, vocalized, and annotated by Dom Jean Parisot, O.S.B. Each opening presents the Syriac text and Latin translation in facing columns numbered sequentially in Patrologia-Latina style.