The Church Fathers · 337–345
The Demonstrations
Aphrahat · c. 280–c. 345
What it is
Twenty-three treatises by the Persian Sage on faith, love, fasting, prayer, war, humility, and the sons of the covenant — written entirely outside the Greek theological world.
Why it lasted
The earliest substantial Syriac Christian theology, and the clearest picture of a church that developed with almost no Hellenistic influence.
Scripture it works from
Where to read it
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