Federal sons

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The federal sons ( Syrian ܒܢܝ ܩܝܡܐ bnay qyāmā ) were a community similar to monasticism within the Syrian Church of the 4th century, which combined ascetic life with active social and ecclesiastical activity. Asceticism and celibacy were prerequisites for admission to this group, which determined ecclesiastical life. Existing marriages were canceled:

“The woman is obliged to live with women,
the man should live with men
and if a man wants
to be in holiness, then his wife should not live with him
lest he return to his former nature
and be considered an adulterer. "

- Aphrahat : Demonstration 4: Of the covenant sons

This group included the Syrian church writers Aphrahat and Ephrem the Syrians .

literature

  • Aphraates , Peter Bruns : Instructions I (=  Fontes Christiani. Bilingual new edition of Christian source texts from ancient times and the Middle Ages . Volume 5 ). Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau / Basel / Vienna / Barcelona / Rome / New York 1991, ISBN 3-451-22106-3 (Syriac, German).
  • David Hellholm, Tor Vegge, Øyvind Norderval, Christer Hellholm (Eds.): Ablution, Initiation, and Baptism. Late Antiquity, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-024753-4 , p. 1120 .