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True Father and Mother (1)

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01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery




12 Assyrian Identity




Keywords
marriage
monasticism
Period
Roman Empire
Sasanid Empire
Channel
Syrian philosophers and scholars


Text
Philo of Alexandria, Allegorical Interpretation 2.49:
For the sake of sense-perception the Mind, when it has become her slave, abandons both God the Father of the universe, and God’s excellence and wisdom, the Mother of all things, and cleaves to and becomes one with sense-perception so that the two become one flesh and one experience.

Aphrahat, Demonstrations 18.10 (the commentary on Genesis 2:24):
Who is it who leaves father and mother to take a wife? The meaning is as follows: as long as a man has not taken a wife, he loves and reveres God his Father and the Holy Spirit his Mother, and he has no other love. But when a man takes a wife, then he leaves his (true) Father and Mother.

Pseudo-Macarian. Homilies 54.4.5:
It is right and fitting, children, for you to have left all that is temporal and have gone off to God: instead of an earthly father you are seeking the heavenly Father, and instead of a mother who is subject to corruption, you have as a Mother the excellent Spirit of God, and the heavenly Jerusalem. Instead of the brothers you have left you now have the Lord who has allowed himself to be called brother of the faithful.


Sources (list of abbreviations)
Aphrahat, Demonstrations 18.10
Philo of Alexandria, Allegorical Interpretation 2.49
pseudo-Macarian. Homilies 54.4.5

Bibliography

Brock 1990, 80-81Brock, Sebastian. “The Holy Spirit as Feminine in Early Syriac Literature.” In: Janet Martin Soskice (ed.). After Eve: Women, Theology and the Christian Tradition. London: Marshall Pickering 1990, 73-88.

Amar Annus


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