Mystic Treatises
Ascetical Homilies (Selected)
Orthodox
Twenty-eight homilies on repentance, the passions, watchfulness, and mercy — Isaac’s counsel for a heart at war with sin.
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About this edition
Text from A. J. Wensinck’s Mystic Treatises by Isaac of Nineveh (1923), translated from Bedjan’s Syriac. We print twenty-eight Homilies in full, keeping Wensinck’s numbering.
Homilies included: 1–10, 30–33, 36–38, 45, 50, 62–63, 66, 72, 74, 76, 79, 83–84 — chosen for repentance, trust in God, the passions, guarding the heart, temptation, mercy, and humility.
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Three companion volumes on the same question: How does the believer put sin to death?