Bishop Solomon: The Book of the Bee Year: ca. 1200–1300

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Bishop Solomon:The Book of the BeeYEAR: ca. 1200–1300
FIRST, THE APOLOGY.
CHAPTER I. OF GOD’S ETERNAL INTENTION IN RESPECT OFTHE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE.
CHAPTER II. OF THE CREATION OF THE SEVEN NATURES (SUBSTANCES)IN SILENCE.
CHAPTER III. OF EARTH, WATER, AIR, AND FIRE.
CHAPTER V. OF THE ANGELS.
CHAPTER VII. OF EFFUSED (CIRCUMAMBIENT) LIGHT.
CHAPTER LVI. OF DEATH AND THE DEPARTURE OF THE SOULFROM THE BODY.
CHAPTER LIX. OF THE HAPPINESS OF THE RIGHTEOUS ANDTHE TORMENT OF SINNERS, AND IN WHAT STATE THEY ARE THERE.
CHAPTER LX. WHETHER MERCY WILL BE SHEWN TO SINNERSAND THE DEVILS IN GEHENNA, AFTER THEY HAVE BEEN TORMENTEDAND SUFFERED AND BEEN PUNISHED, OR NOT? AND IFMERCY IS TO BE SHEWN TO THEM, WHEN WILL IT BE?

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Abstract

TRUSTING in the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, we begin to write this book of gleanings called “The Bee,” which was composed by the saint of God, Mar Solomon, metropolitan of Perath-Maishan, that is Bassorah (al-Basrah), one of His companions. O Lord, in Thy mercy help me. Amen.

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