Event Factoid: Severus recommended that
Elisha
sell the complete copy of that Bible that had been owned by
John
before his death, and use the funds for the care of the poor.
Sources:
E. W. Brooks and E. W. Brooks, eds.,Letters I to LXI,inA Collection of Letters of Severus of Antioch , from Numerous Syriac Manuscripts, Patrologia Orientalis 12 (Paris: Firmin-Didot et cie, 1919), p: 277, part: 34.