On Epistle 25

Carrying along Bcheiry Table 2, p. 64: indeed, #25 is a pessimistic view - as far as I translated, which you'll likely notice I started tapering off as its author started to blather, as is his wont. (We may also read the summary, "XXIII".) But its view is not of a world in turmoil. Isho'yahb as bishop isn't (here) concerned with the world, beyond his diocese.

Our man deals here with a local concern with his local community. I do not see "heresy" in this letter; by extension, the target is not the Had-Qnoma. (So I agree with Bcheiry that this menace is yet to arrive.) The "worm" has come from within the community itself.

One more vital point: it's addressed straight to the top, to Isho'yahb II (wherever he is); and not to Arbela - nor to Mar Gabriel in Kirkuk. There was peste en Bet-Garmay.

FIEY 4/15/23: E. XXV is discussed end of ch. IV, p. 333 in French.