Portrait of Aphrahat

Fathers

Aphrahat

Persian sage

Aphrahat (fl. 4th c.) was a Persian Christian sage who wrote in Syriac under the Persian kings. He is called the Persian Sage.

Dates
fl. 4th c.
Role
Persian sage
See
Persia

The Demonstrations are twenty-three discourses on faith, love, fasting, war, and the resurrection. They are the earliest extended Christian theology in Syriac.

Writings