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03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices
12 Assyrian Identity
03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices
03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices
Keywords
bridal chamber
Period
4th century CE
Channel
Christian-Syriac philosophers and scholars
Text The Life of Pelagia: We (= Christian bishops) believe that we have a bridal chamber in heaven that will not pass away, in a place that will last for ever and ever; and we have a fiancé who will neither die nor become corrupted; we have in heaven an inheritance to which the entire world cannot be compared; a happiness whose joy and felicity cannot be described is ours; ours too is the fragrance that never fades away … What more need I say: we have vast promises in the supernal heights stored up with our hidden Lord who cannot be seen. It is he we should please, but we fail to do so; it is for him that we should adorn our bodies and souls, but we totally fail to do so. We should take pains over ourselves in order to scrub away the dirt of sins, to become clean from evil stains; but we have paid no attention to our souls in the attempt to adorn them with good habits so that Christ may desire to dwell in us.
Brock, Sebastian and Susan Ashbrook Harvey. Holy Women of the Syrian Orient. Introduced and Translated. The Transformation of the Classical Heritage 13. Berkeley: University of California Press 1987.
