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A. Overview of Pseudo-Ephraem:1. Here is the full text of both the Latin and Syraic versions of Pseudo-Ephraem.2. As you will see, Pseudo-Ephraem teaches that Christians escape tribulation by death not rapture!3. Rapture advocates use "Pseudo-Ephraem" as an example of rapture doctrine that was believed and taught in 375 AD. Such a use of Pseudo-Ephraem is wrong, unscholarly and desperate. But this desperation is because Pseudo-Ephraem is the only example they can find before 1830 of Rapture doctrine. Of course, Pseudo-Ephraem DOES NOT teach rapture or anything even close to it.4. The purpose of this section of the outline is...

Saint Ephrem of Syria. Denver, Colo., Jun 3, 2012 / 07:12 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On June 9, the Roman Catholic Church honors Saint Ephrem of Syria, a deacon, hermit, and Doctor of the Church who made important contributions to the spirituality and theology of the Christian East during the fourth century.Eastern Catholics and Eastern Orthodox Christian celebrate his feast on January 28.In a 2007 General Audience on St. Ephrem’s life, Pope Benedict XVI noted that St. Ephrem became known as the “Harp of the Holy Spirit,” for the hymns and writings that sang the praises of God “in an...

Authority Over Demons O Christ, the praise and joy of those who love you: you are my life, my light, and my gladness! Despise not me, who am worthless; cast me who am vile not away, for the enemy will be exceedingly pleased if I am plunged into despair because of the fog of error which surrounds me. He will rejoice only when he sees that despair is beginning to make me his captive. Rather do you, according to your ardent love, shame his hopes, snatch me from his teeth, deliver me from his crafty schemes, from all that he...