Literary Coptic gradually declined, and within a few hundred years, Egyptian bishop Severus Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ found it necessary to write his History of the Patriarchs in Arabic.
O copto literario declinou gradualmente ata o punto de que, ao cabo duns cantos séculos, o bispo exipcio Severus Ibn al-Muqaffa atopou necesario escribir a súa Historia dos patriarcas en árabe.