SPEAR Factoids about Sin

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event: Severus wrote a letter to Cosmas on the subject of forgiving those who involuntarily commune with heretic provided they confess their sin. See factoid page

event: Severus wrote a letter to John the scholastic in which he answered questions posed by another. The questions dealt with repentance for refusing to submit to monastic discipline and repentance for self-castration in one's youth. See factoid page

event: Because the woman was very beautiful, many of the men of Amida sought to sleep with her. When they could not prevail against her, they petitioned the governor of Amida to arrest her. The young man cried out in a loud voice that the woman was his wife. See factoid page

event: Tribunus resists marriage fearing that such a worldly attachment would lead to sin and the begetting of children who would sin and die. See factoid page

event: After hearing about the old man's practices, John repented of his sins. See factoid page

event: Anonymous 3780 performed ordinations against canon law and made many false oaths. See factoid page

event: Cosmo,seeing that the woman was beautiful like a pearl, took her away from the governor's men. Weeping, she asked Cosmo to pray for her. See factoid page

event: Severus of Antioch sent a letter to Anonymi 3726 on the subject of Musonius, especially his greed, pride, and disruptive behavior. See factoid page

event: John followed the man and woman, hoping to find out their identity. When he found them John took an oath to protect the secret of their marriage and holiness. The woman spoke to John about the sin and evil of the world, bringing him to teras and repentance. See factoid page

event: Cyrus falsely claimed to be a priest and performed invalid ordinations. See factoid page

event: Severus and the bishops of Antioch urged the Apamean bishops to repent of their sin. See factoid page

event: Between 513 and 518, Severus wrote a letter to Aurelius about showing a kind disposition to sin, and how to handle cases of self-mutilation. See factoid page

event: Sometime during his episcopacy Severus of Antioch sent a letter to Victor on the subject of the monk John and his lust for money. See factoid page

event: Harfat's ascetic practice consisted of living in solitude on a remote mountain where he wept constantly in sorrow over his great sins. See factoid page

event: John the scholastic wrote a letter to Severus in which he sought answers to questions someone else had asked him. The questions dealt with repentance for refusing to submit to monastic discipline and repentance for self-castration in one's youth. See factoid page

event: Sometime during his episcopacy Severus of Antioch wrote a letter to the clergy of Antaradus regarding a difficult set of circumstance surrounding their efforts to have a bishop ordained for their city and the case of Leontius, a deacon who had been disciplined because of his sin but was unrepentant and indeed sought to become head deacon. See factoid page

event: In response to Caesarea's desire to leave her marriage to live a sanctified life, Severus encourages her to remain in her marriage, stating that to leave her husband even for pure reasons would be a grave sin, and that great glory is given to God by faithful wives and mothers. See factoid page

event: Severus condemned the late bishop Simeon for being a greedy and corrupt bishop. See factoid page

event: After a dispute with Hilarian about a monastery and a presumptuous and illeagl forging of signatures by Callistus, Paul fled to the royal city. See factoid page

event: Sometime between 519-525 Anonymous 3751 conducted a trial in an un-canonical fashion to addressed accusations of sexual sin between John and Anonymi 3752. This brought him into conflict with the archimandritess Heracliana The details of this event are difficult to decipher. See factoid page

event: In the convent, the man refused to speak to the brothers, calling himself a stranger, sinner, and son of Adam. See factoid page

event: Julian accidentally communed with heretics and confessed his sin. See factoid page

event: Cyrus was a lapsed clergyman who sought to be reinstated without signing a written declaration of orthodox faith. See factoid page

event: The old man continuously asked the archimandrite of the Amida convent for a dismissal. Curious, John asks the man about his eating, sleeping, and prayer habits. He eats and prays the way he does out of recognition of human sinfulness. See factoid page

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“Keyword Page for Sin,” in SPEAR: Syriac Persons Events and Relations, general editor Daniel L. Schwartz, $nav-base/aggregate/keyword/sin.html, 2023-03-23T12:35:07.574-04:00.

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