Jerome. Lives of Illustrious Men 115
115 Ephrem the deacon PL 23, 707
Ephraim, deacon of the church at Edessa, composed many works in the Syriac language, and became so distinguished that his writings are repeated publicly in some churches, after the reading of the Scriptures.
I once read in Greek a volume by him On the Holy Spirit, which some one had translated from the Syriac, and recognized even in translation, the incisive power of lofty genius. He died in the reign of Valens.
943 Ephraem, Edessenae Ecclesiae diaconus, multa Syro sermone composuit, et ad tantam venit claritudinem, ut post lectionem Scripturarum publice in quibusdam ecclesiis ejus scripta recitentur. Legi ejus de Spiritu sancto Graecum volumen, quod quidam de Syriaca lingua verterat, et acumen sublimis ingenii, etiam in translatione, cognovi. Decessit sub Valente principe.
944 Ἐφραὶμ, τῆς ἐν Ἐδέσσῃ ἐκκλησίας διάκονος, πολλὰ τῇ τῶν Σύρων διαλέξει συντέθηκε, καὶ εἰς τοσαύτην ἦλθε λαμπρότητα, ὥστε μετὰ τὴν ἀνάγνωσιν τῶν θείων Γραφῶν, δημοσίᾳ, ἔν τισι τῶν ἐκκλησιῶν ἀναγινώσκεται τὰ συγγράμματα Ἀνέγνων περὶ τοῦ ἁγίου Πνεύματος Ἑλληνικὸν τεῦχος, ὅπερ τινὲς ἀπὸ τῆς Σύρων γλώτῆς μετέφρασαν, καὶ τὸ ἄκρον τῆς ὑψηλοτάτης διανοίας, ἐκ τῆς μεταφράσεως ἔγνων. Ἐτελεύτησε βασιλεύοντος Γρατιανοῦ.