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Ephrem wrote a wide variety of hymns, poems, and sermons in verse, as well as prose biblical exegesis.

These were works of practical theology for the edification of the church in troubled times.

So popular were his works, that, for centuries after his death, Christian authors wrote hundreds of pseudepigraphal works in his name.

Ephrem's works witness to an early form of Christianity in which western ideas take little part.

He has been called the most significant of all of the fathers of the Syriac-speaking church tradition.