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Title
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Handed over to Assyrians
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Date
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8th century
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Description
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"Nor did we find any history dealing with the time of afflictions and bitterness that came upon us and our fathers, or an author who wrote anything about the bad and bitter times that came upon us on account of our sins, when we were delivered into the hands of the Assyrians and the Barbarians.
Therefore, we decided to leave a record of this evil time and bitter affliction, which the land suffered in our day and in our time, at the hands of the Assyrians, whom the prophet described: "The Assyrian is the rod of my anger, and the stick of my punishment is in his hand; I will send him against an idolatrous nation and I will command him against a malicious people."
This rod or stick of the Lord that He stretched forth and gave to the Assyrian in order to chastise the earth was also seen ascending in the sky, and was visible for many days. Perhaps those who will come after us into the world will listen, tremble, fear the Lord, and walk before Him with integrity, lest He should deliver them too, as is the case with us, into the hands of this rapacious wolf."
In this passage, he says that “we” were handed over to the Assyrians and Barbarians, showing he is part of the same suffering group. His people are the Syriac-speaking Christians, descendants of the ancient Arameans, and rejects being an Assyrian himself.
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Language
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Syriac-Aramaic
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Publisher
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Manuscript:
(Vat.sir 162, f. 122r-121v.)
Syriac (chabot): https://archive.org/details/incertiauctorisc0104unse/page/n165/mode/2up, p. 165
Translation: https://archive.org/details/MichaelRaboExtract4th6th/ZuqninIV_Harrak_1999/page/n49/mode/2up, p. 138.
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Manuscript
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Syriac (chabot)
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Translation
