John of Ephesus (or of Asia) (c. 507 – c. 586) was a leader of the non-Chalcedonian Syriac-speaking Church in the sixth century, and one of the earliest and most important of historians who wrote in Syriac.
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Spare their women for Thy Sake,
And if that is not too easy
We will pardon Thy Mistake.
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