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SEVEN SLEEPERS OF EPHESUS, THE , according to the most common form of an old legend of Syrian origin, first referred to in Western literature by Gregory of Tours (De glor. mart. c. 95), seven Christian youths of Ephesus
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hearing what had happened, hastened to the spot in time to hear from their lips that God had wrought this wonder to confirm his faith in the resurrection of the dead. This message delivered, they again fell asleep.Gregory says he had the legend from the interpretation of a certain Syrian "; in point of fact the story is common in Syriac sources. It forms the subject of a homily of Jacob of Sarug (ob. A.D. 521), which is given in the Acta sanctorum. Another Syriac version is printed in Land's Anecdota, iii. 87 seq.; see also Barhebraeus, Chron. eccles. i. 142 seq., and compare Assemani, Bib. Or. i. 335 seq. Some forms of the legend give eight sleeperse.g. an ancient MS. of the 6th century now in the British Museum (Cat. Syr. MSS. p. 1o90). There are considerable variations as to their names. The legend rapidly attained a wide diffusion throughout Christendom ; its currency in the East
Mahomet (sus. xviii.), who calls them A,Fhab al-Kahf, " the men of the cave."According to Biruni (Chronology, tr. by Sachau, p. 285) certain undecayed corpses of monks were shown in a cave as the sleepers of Ephesus in the 9th century . The seven sleepers are a favourite subject in early medieval art. The story is well told in Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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