Seven Sleepers of Ephesus
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- Опубліковано 31 лип 2023
- One of the most loved, well travelled, and incredible, stories from the Early Church. The tale of the seven sleepers from the city of Ephesus is one of the most unusual and exciting episodes we've done yet.
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Article on the historicity of the story: www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2009...
Homily on the Seven Sleepers by Jacob of Serugh: en.wikisource.org/wiki/Transl...
An article about the Seven Sleeper story's travels: forthewynnblog.wordpress.com/...
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It was only a few days ago that I came across your channel; and I can't tell you how grateful I am for your efforts! I live in India and here persecution of Christians is coming back. Stories like today's give me great encouragement and hope. Thank you.
where are you in India?
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Wow I’ve never heard about them. Thank you for sharing this. Glory to God. ☦️🙌
Not only an incredible story but the opening music is wonderful! Another brilliant episode. Thank you!
This was incredible! I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed this episode. Amazing. Simply amazing.
So glad to hear that! It is one of our favourites so far!
Even more...
".... After that, Mary Magdalene returned from Rome to Ephesus to St. John the Theologian whom she assisted in the work of preaching the Gospel. With great love toward the resurrected Lord, and with great zeal, she proclaimed the Holy Gospel to the world as a true apostle of Christ. She died peacefully in Ephesus and, according to tradition, was buried in the same cave in which later seven youths were miraculously put to sleep for hundreds of years and, after that, were brought to life and then died (August 4). The relics of St. Mary Magdalene were later transferred to Constantinople...."
From the Prologue of Ohrid - Saint Nikolaj Velimirović
July 22 according to the Church Calendar
Hilarious, brothers. I was literally taking a 3 hour nap in the middle of the workday, which I don’t typically do, feeling super drowsy for some reason and then after waking I get on UA-cam and this pops up. Was beginning to think I gave into sloth but I’m taking this video as a providential sign that I just needed to rest more and trust Jesus to work things out in my life even when I am not working, striving, or fighting; for “He gives His beloved sleep.”
God bless
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This is astonishing! How is this not more known? Once more I have learned something cool on your channel! Thank you!
Fantastic storytelling and graphics, great cadence. Really; well done.
Really appreciate that, thank you!
@@Patristix My wife started doing a Saints video on my channel, I told her she should start watching yours so we can sort of work up the quality gradually.
Good job being the gold standard! xD
Love this story ☦️
Just found this. I'm a fellow Orthodox who loves this story. Your presentation is fantastic. I'm happy to subscribe!!
Thank you and welcome to the channel!
Our Father can DO ANY MIRACLE ❣️🙏 Grateful for your Sharing this Wonderful, Historic event!🌹
Just when you thought you'd heard it all😊
Bless you and thank you 🌸
THANK YOU UA-cam algorithm ❤ i would have never discovered this wonderful channel.
Really disappointed I've been to Ephesus in modern day Turkey and no one ever mentioned this legend or offered to take us to the cave. But did go to a monastery in the hills were it is said st Peter took Mary mother of Jesus before they left i believe for Egypt.
I couldn’t be more joyful that I am Orthodox. I don’t want to laud this over anyone, I just sincerely hope to share it with everyone.
Nice Video🤍☦️ and a blessed Dormition Fast to all my brothers and sisters in christ
While I've heard the story, I hadn't heard all the corroborating details. Fantastic, thanks for sharing!
Hello from Romania! i went to Holy Mount Athos, in Greece, where I've heard this story. it is very beautiful and i enjoyed hearing it in English too.
Glory to you our God, glory to you!
“And may God awake you at the proper time.” Love that! One of my favorite stories from the early Church. It is still in the Roman Martyrology, but few in the West read that anymore.
Latin Rite here. Loved this!
Such a fascinating story. I didn't know about this at all. Amazing, thank you.
Thanks for bringin this gold to our time.
Thanks for watching!
Love this episode, welcome back I missed you both❤
Marvelous! My first time hearing this story as well! Thank you for sharing it!
A pleasure! It's a really really good one
What an awesome video!! May God bless you and your channel!!
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Amen to that! A very helpful tea
'The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus' is also mentioned in Surah Al Kahf (The Cave) in the 18th chapter of the Qur'an but is not a Christian interpretation story it is an Islamic interpretation ☪
its a proof that quranic story is based on different religions stories
@@_blank_007 No, it's proof that the Quran tells true events.
Thank you!!!!
Love your work, and God bless. Can you please talk about Virgin Mary's story, her birth, and her death. Thanks.
This is a really cool story! I love your videos, God bless you guys!
Thank you, Silas!
very interesting, god bless!✋🏻
Cool story!
This story is so famous that it even made it into the Qur’an. I grew up Muslim, now I’m a follower of Jesus. The Chapter/Surah of the Qur’an is Al-Kahf/The Cave, referring to the people of the cave. It mentions a group of men facing persecution, sleeping in a cave for hundreds of years, and coming out to find the town was now ruled by a peaceful emperor. Word for word, i dont remember if it is in the Hadith or the Quran, I remember the scene of the coin, where they realize how long they have slept because of the old emperor being on the coin.
I,ve seen the movie too
God bless
Ex-Muslim here as well. I didn't know about the coin scene so I think it's probably from the Hadith. I just remember that it didn't make sense to me at all when I was a Muslim.
Yes, it showed God's power but seemed very arbitrary why would He choose this way of showing His power. It makes incredibly more sense now that I understand its link to our Lord's Resurrection. Even funnier to think that Islam also teaches Christ's crucifixion and death are some kind of misundertanding.
I just wish more Muslims who read/listen to Surat Al-Kahf every Friday would know what it actually means. And would repent and follow Christ.
@@lounaannajung4454You must do some research on the Surah Al Kahaf and read tafseer of the Surah so you can get the whole scenerio why this all happened. In Hadith and Tafseer there is way more details about this incident so you must do some research before giving your opinion to Muslims to convert to Christianity
Prophet Muhammad was asked by some rabbis three questions: about the youths in the cave, about the nature of the spirit, and about dhul qarnayn.
A portion of Surah Kahf was revealed by Allah in response to two of those questions.
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Hi From Ethiopia Orthodox💙 i kmow about this Saints it's Written in my Church as well we Commomrate them on Feb 13
Hi I'm newly baptized. I love to read about the saints... Can you recommend any books or collections?
Thank you for this channel. May you also be blessed
Definitely ask your priest, he'll have some good sources. There are a number of good books and websites and also Orthodox calendar apps for your phone that are really useful
@@Patristix thank you for your reply.. I will do that. Again, thank you for your work on this beautiful channel. I have learned much. May you also be blessed.. -Michael
There goes that number 7 again
A prayer at the end is a great idea.
We have a version of this story in quaran with several differences
This blew my mind 👁️👁️
It's a great story!
Read it In the Holy Quran to, in the chapter Surah Kahf
What is the music from the intro? :)
It's a track called 'Appassionato' by an artist called Nono. We license from Artlist artlist.io/referral/21928/Stephan
These individuals where true Christians in that they didn’t worship Christ and only saw him for what he was and is…a prophet of God. Their beautiful story takes place almost a century before the council of nicea decided to make Christ a god and develop the trinity. The early Christian’s were monotheist and did worship idols or men the way modern Christian’s do.
The story was first recorded in the early 500s, and the sleepers were reported to have awoken in the year AD 434.
The first council of Nicea (which did not create Trinitarian theology, but confirmed it as dogma) was in AD 325 almost a hundred years BEFORE the awakening of the sleepers. The earliest found record of the event is by a Trinitarian Christian theologian named Jacob of Serugh, writing in the early 500s. There was a church dedicated in memory of the sleepers by at least AD 520.
The Quaran was compiled a century AFTER this around the year 610.
This was the very first story I read after discovering the orthodox calendar.
I recommend you this wonderful series that talks about these belivers young men ❤
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They sleep 309 years
Seven sleepers with one dog 🐕
Today, Friday, Aug. 4th Check for synaxarion entry on the Seven Sleepers.
Are the 7 dwarfs in the movie snow white taken from the 7 sleepers of Ephesus?
The number 7 has a lot of appearances in stories and in Christianity. So perhaps the dwarfs are drawing on the same number? It is the Biblical number of completion.
But didn’t Theodosius II live like 100 years or something after they were supposed to wake up
4:50 am and I can’t sleep 😅
I have this video several times and I just saw one that tells similar story and they sleep for 300yrs tarsus turkey ? Is this the same one?
The story of the Seven Sleepers was retold a century later in the Quran. The main points are the same but the length of sleep and a few details are changed. So it's the same story retold
Hindsight is 20/20. But I kinda wish if I knew what the "good parts" of 80s years.
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Puzzled by ending"factual" confirmations,&,if claiming a miracle or simply a famous tale. All the historical confirmations were what one would expect in either case while the chance of any details end abruptly with "Oh,they died that night. No more questions." Fun story but I expect if there was any stronger facts you'd have said (?) or are there?
Is this story authentic?
this legen written by jacob of serugh
I know the Orthodox tradition considers itself as one entity but why is there a Greek and Russian church?
Like do they each focus on a different aspect of the faith (like would russians focus on suffering while greek focuses on the esoteric) do to their general congregation or is the difference caused by something else? Or is it just geographic domains of the different Bishops.
(Also a video of the hierarchy would be cool)
Different geographic domains/jurisdictions. There's also Romanian, Serbian, Bulgarian, and more. We may do videos on hierarchy down the road!
@@Patristix then why isn't there an American or Australian orthodox church? I'm just getting into the faith so I want to know these differences before I jump in fully.
@@CashFreedman There may be down the road, these things take time and Orthodoxy has been out in America and Australia a VERY short time in the grand scheme of history. Would definitely recommend as soon as possible visiting an Orthodox Church and asking all your questions of a priest there! The internet and books is no match for the chats and discussions and hearing our services. We often say to those curious about Orthodoxy to 'come and see', rather than 'read and research', though of course both will happen. God bless!
hi
I find it fascinating that the period between Decius and Theodosius II is ~184 years but the Qur'an states the sleepers slept for 300+9 years, so it unknowingly quotes a story that contradicts its correctness.
Notwithstanding the fact humans don't live that long and can't sleep through a period that long without any water or sustenance, the historical accuracy of this event would be confirmed if we have official records of Theodosius II meeting the sleepers and recounting their story, finding they died and ordering building the church over the cave in their honour, but we do not have that.
After I lister to this story.. I wonder how the muslim can have their own story of the seven sleepers in their Quran.
Prophet Muhammad was asked three questions to test his prophethood by some rabbis.
One of those questions was about the youths in the cave.
Allah revealed Surah Kahf to Prophet Muhammad containing two of the three answers to those questions, the other question was answered in Surah Isra.
That's truly astonishing story, and I enjoyed this episode. Sadly, because of this tale found its way to the Qur'an, I highly doubt its reliability until I could explore the original sources more.
This is also mentioned in the Quran chapter 18 of the Quran is called the chapter of the cave it explains how they have run away from the evil ruler who was a pagan
Brother in quran god told this story ....
and that my friends is how christianity spreads...
This story is also told in Quran, but little bit twisted
Saints had to go turkey a very holy land mentioned in the bible many times
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