Ephrem’s words against Julian (1)

Text
Ephrem Syrus, (Hymns against Julian) 3.4-5, 9, 17:
I stood over him and derided his paganism and said, “Is this indeed he who exalted himself against the Living Name and forgot that he is dust?” … I stood and wondered at him whose downfall I had so fully seen. “This is his majesty and this is his pomp! This is his kingship and this is his chariot! This is a clump of earth that has disintegrated!” … The Just One by all (manner) of deaths was capable of destroying him, but he kept (for him) a downfall fearful and bitter, so that on the day of his death all things should be drawn up before his eyes: Where is that oracle that reassured him? And the goddesses of weapons that she did not come to his aid? And the companies of his gods that they did not come to save him? … For he had mockingly named the brothers Galileans. Behold in the air the wheels of the Galilean king! He thunders in His Chariot; the Cherubim bear Him. The Galilean revealed (the chariot) and handed over the flock of the soothsayer to the wolves in the wilderness, but the Galilean herd increased and filled the whole earth.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Ephrem Syrus, (Hymns against Julian) 3.4-17

Bibliography

Amar Annus

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