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Tatian: Diatessaron — Arabic Witness
Hope W. Hogg; ANF09 (1897) · Edition commentary
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Translator and historical edition notes (part 3)
Luke vii. 10.
Luke vii. 11.
Luke vii. 12.
Lit. company.
Luke vii. 13.
Luke vii. 14.
Luke vii. 15.
Luke vii. 16.
Luke vii. 17.
Matt. viii. 18.
Luke ix. 57a; Matt. viii. 19.
Matt. viii. 20.
Luke ix. 59.
Luke ix. 60.
Luke ix. 61.
Luke ix. 62.
Lit. plough of the yoke.
Mark iv. 35; Luke viii. 22d.
cf., e.g., at § 17, 19, § 23, 16, where the same Arabic and Syriac word is used; cf. also the ambiguity of the Greek (R.V. has left).
Mark iv. 36a; Luke viii. 22b.
Mark iv. 36c; Matt. viii. 24a.
Lit. commotion.
Luke viii. 23c.
Or, abundance.
Mark iv. 38a.
Matt. viii. 25.
Luke viii. 24b.
Mark iv. 39b.
Mark iv. 40.
Luke viii. 25b.
The last clause belongs in the Greek to verse 41.
Luke viii. 26.
Luke viii. 27a.
Mark v. 2b; Luke viii. 27c.
Mark v. 3b.
Mark v. 4a.
Luke viii. 29c.
Imperfect tense.
Mark v. 4b, 5a.
Matt. viii. 28b.
Mark v. 5b.
Mark v. 6.
Mark v. 7a; Luke viii. 28b.
Mark v. 7c; Luke viii. 29a.
Lit. and it was for him.
Luke viii. 30.
Luke viii. 31.
Luke viii. 32.
Luke viii. 33.
Mark v. 13b.
Luke viii. 34.
Luke viii. 35.
cf. Syriac versions.
Luke viii. 36.
Mark v. 16b.
Luke viii. 37a.
Matt. ix. 1.
Luke viii. 38.
Luke viii. 39a.
Mark v. 20.
Lit. the ten cities.
Mark v. 21a; Luke viii. 40b.
Luke viii. 41a.
Mark v. 23a.
Matt. ix. 18b.
Matt. ix. 19.
Mark v. 24b.
Mark v. 25.
Mark v. 26.
Mark v. 27.
See § 8, 17, note.
Mark v. 28.
Mark v. 29.
Mark v. 30.
Luke viii. 45b.
Luke viii. 46.
Luke viii. 47a.
Mark v. 33b; Luke viii. 47c.
Luke viii. 48; Mark v. 34b.
Luke viii. 49.
Luke viii. 50.
Mark v. 37.
Mark v. 38.
Mark v. 39.
Luke viii. 53.
Mark v. 40b.
Mark v. 41.
Luke viii. 55a.
Mark v. 42b.
Luke viii. 55b.
Luke viii. 56.
Matt. ix. 26.
Matt. ix. 27.
Matt. ix. 28.
Matt. ix. 29.
Lit. went forward to (cf. § 8, 17, note).
Matt. ix. 30.
Matt. ix. 31.
Matt. ix. 32.
Matt. ix. 33.
Matt. ix. 35.
Matt. ix. 36.
Lit. cast away (cf. meanings of Syriac word).
Matt. x. 1a; Luke ix. 1b.
Luke ix. 2.
Matt. x. 5.
§ 34, 40, shows that this Arabic form may be so translated.
Matt. x. 6.
Matt. x. 7.
Matt. x. 8.
Matt. x. 9f.
Mark vi. 8b; Luke ix. 3.
Matt. x. 10c; Mark vi. 9a.
Matt. x. 10d.
Matt. x. 11.
Matt. x. 12; Matt. x. 13.
Matt. x. 14a; Mark vi. 11b.
Matt. x. 15.
Matt. x. 16.
The word is occasionally used in this sense, but ordinarily means sound, unhurt.
Matt. x. 17.
Matt. x. 18.
Matt. x. 19.
From this point down to Matt. x. 27a, is assigned by Vat. ms. to Mark.
Borg. ms. reads, but what ye are granted ye shall speak, and ye shall be given in, etc., and there seems to be a trace of this reading in Ciasca’s text.
Matt. x. 20.
Matt. x. 21.
Matt. x. 22.
See note to § 1, 78.
Matt. x. 23.
Matt. x. 24.
Matt. x. 25.
Matt. x. 26.
See note to § 9, 21.
Matt. x. 27a; Luke xii. 3b.
Luke xii. 4a; Luke x. 28b.
Perhaps this Arabic word is a copyist’s error for that used a few lines further down in Luke xii. 5, the Arabic words being very similar; but see note on § 1, 14.
Syriac.
Luke xii. 5; Matt. x. 29.
The Vat. ms., like the Brit. Mus. text of Ibn-at-Tayyib’s Commentary, omits for a farthing, retaining in a bond. The two phrases are simply different explanations of the same Syriac consonants. These are really the naturalised Greek word rendered farthing in Eng. version; but they also form a Syriac word meaning bond.
Matt. x. 30.
Matt. x. 31.
Matt. x. 32.
Matt. x. 33.
Luke xii. 51.
Luke xii. 52.
Luke xii. 53.
Matt. x. 36.
Matt. x. 37.
Matt. x. 38.
Matt. x. 39.
Or, soul.
Or, soul.
Matt. x. 40.
Matt. x. 41.
Or, receive.
Or, receive.
Matt. x. 42a; Mark ix. 41b.
Matt. xi. 1.
Luke x. 38.
Luke x. 39.
Luke x. 40.
Luke x. 41.
Or, agitated.
Luke x. 42.
Mark vi. 12.
Mark vi. 13.
Luke vii. 18.
Lit. And his disciples told John, as in the Greek, etc.
Matt. xi. 2a; Luke vii. 19.
Luke vii. 20.
Luke vii. 21.
Luke vii. 22.
A different word from that used in the preceding verse. It is either an Arabic copyist’s error for the word for deaf used in Ibn-at-Tayyib’s Commentary, or a careless blunder.
Luke vii. 23.
Luke vii. 24.
Luke vii. 25.
Luke vii. 26.
Luke vii. 27.
Matt. xi. 11.
Luke vii. 29.
Syriac. In Arabic the word ordinarily means believed.
Luke vii. 30.
See below, § 20, 28, note.
Matt. xi. 12a.
Luke xvi. 16.
Matt. xi. 12b.
Matt. xi. 13.
Matt. xi. 14.
Matt. xi. 15.
Luke xvi. 17.
Luke vii. 31b.
See § 1, 49, note.
Luke vii. 32.
Luke vii. 33.
Luke vii. 34.
Luke vii. 35.
Mark iii. 20, and verse 19b.
Luke xi. 14.
Matt. xii. 24.
Luke xi. 16.
Matt. xii. 25.
Matt. xii. 26a.
Mark iii. 26b; Matt. xii. 26b.
Luke xi. 18b; Matt. xii. 27.
Matt. xii. 28.
Matt. xii. 29.
The word used in the Syriac versions (Pesh. and Cur.) means garments as well as utensils, and the Arabic translator has chosen the wrong meaning (cf. § 42, 44).
Certain derivatives from the same root signify bind, but hardly this word.
The two Arab. mss. differ in this word, but the meaning is about the same. Perhaps both are corrupt.
Luke xi. 21.
Luke xi. 22.
Luke xi. 23.
Mark iii. 28.
Mark iii. 29.
Mark iii. 30.
Matt. xii. 32.
Matt. xii. 33.
Or, a tree good.
Or, a tree evil.
Matt. xii. 34.
Luke vi. 45a.
Matt. xii. 36.
Matt. xii. 37.
Luke xii. 54.
Luke xii. 55.
Matt. xvi. 2b.
Matt. xvi. 3.
Matt. xvi. 4; this is reckoned to verse 3 in the Greek.
Matt. xii. 22.
Matt. xii. 23.
Mark vi. 30.
Wrought may have arisen from taught by a transcriptional error (transposition of l and m) within the Arabic text. As it appears to occur in both mss., they would seem to have a common origin, which, however, can hardly have been the autograph of the translator.
Mark vi. 31.
Luke vii. 36.
Luke vii. 37.
Luke vii. 38.
Luke vii. 39.
A comparison with the Syriac text recommends this rendering.
Luke vii. 40.
Luke vii. 41.
Luke vii. 42.
Luke vii. 43.
Luke vii. 44.
Lit. sunk, a word the choice of which is explained by the Syriac.
Luke vii. 45.
Or, I.
Luke vii. 46.
Same word in Arabic.
Same word in Arabic.
Luke vii. 47.
Luke vii. 48.
Luke vii. 49.
Luke vii. 50.
John ii. 23b.
John ii. 24.
The meaning is not apparent.
John ii. 25.
Luke x. 1.
Luke x. 2.
Luke x. 3.
Luke x. 4.
Luke x. 5.
Luke x. 6.
Luke x. 7.
cf. Syriac versions.
Luke x. 8.
Luke x. 9.
Luke x. 10.
Luke x. 11.
The first letter of the word has been lost.
Lit. that, as often in this work.
Luke x. 12.
Matt. xi. 20.
Lit. powers.
Matt. xi. 21.
Matt. xi. 22.
Matt. xi. 23.
The word as printed by Ciasca perhaps means gifts, but by dropping a point from the second letter we get the post-classical word given in the text above.
Matt. xi. 24.
Luke x. 16.
See below, § 20, 28, note.
Luke x. 17.
Luke x. 18.
The word translated devil in preceding verse.
Luke x. 19.
This is an Arabic clerical error for forces. The Syriac word for power means also military forces, which was apparently rendered in Arabic army, a word that differs from race only in diacritical points.
Luke x. 20.
Luke x. 21.
Luke x. 22.
cf. Pesh. and A.V. margin.
Matt. xi. 28.
Matt. xi. 29.
Lit. that (cf. above, § 1, 50, note).
Matt. xi. 30.
Luke xiv. 25.
Luke xiv. 26.
Or, his life; or, his soul.
Luke xiv. 27.
Luke xiv. 28.
This rendering assumes that tower is treated as feminine.
Luke xiv. 29.
Or, it.
Luke xiv. 30.
Luke xiv. 31.
Or, a king like him.
Luke xiv. 32.
Luke xiv. 33.
Or, let.
Matt. xii. 38.
Matt. xii. 39.
See § 1, 49, note.
Luke xi. 30.
Matt. xii. 40.
Luke xi. 31.
See note to § 10, 13.
Matt. xii. 41.
Luke xi. 24.
Luke xi. 25.
Luke xi. 26.
Matt. xii. 45b.
Luke xi. 27.
Luke xi. 28.
Matt. xii. 46a; Luke viii. 19a.
Matt. xii. 46c; Luke viii. 19b.
Mark iii. 31; Matt. xii. 47.
Matt. xii. 48.
Matt. xxii. 49.
Matt. xii. 50.
Luke viii. 1.
The Arabic printed text gives no sense. A simple change in the diacritical points of one letter gives the reading of the Syriac versions, which is adopted here.
Luke viii. 2.
Luke viii. 3.
Matt. xiii. 1.
Matt. xiii. 2.
Matt. xiii. 3.
Matt. xiii. 4a; Luke viii. 5b.
Matt. xiii. 5.
Matt. xiii. 6.
Luke viii. 7; Mark iv. 7b.
Luke viii. 8a; Mark iv. 8b.
cf. Peshitta (against Cur. and Sin.).
Luke viii. 8c.
Mark iv. 10; with additions from Matt. xiii. 10, and Luke viii. 9.
Mark iv. 11; Matt. xiii. 11.
Matt. xiii. 12.
Matt. xiii. 13.
Matt. xiii. 14.
Matt. xiii. 15.
Matt. xiii. 16.
Luke x. 23b.
Matt. xiii. 17.
Mark iv. 13b.
Matt. xiii. 18.
Mark iv. 14.
Matt. xiii. 19.
Matt. xiii. 20.
Matt. xiii. 21a.
Luke viii. 13b; Matt. xiii. 21c.
See above, § 1, 40, note 2.
Or, is seduced (cf. § 25, 17, note).
Matt. xiii. 22a.
Mark iv. 19b.
Luke viii. 15.
Matt. xiii. 23b.
Mark iv. 26.
Mark iv. 27.
Or, while.
Mark iv. 28.
Mark iv. 29.
Lit. fatteneth, as in Peshitta.
Matt. xiii. 24.
Matt. xiii. 25.
Matt. xiii. 26.
Matt. xiii. 27.
Matt. xiii. 28.
Matt. xiii. 29.
See above, § 4, 24, note.
Matt. xiii. 30.
Matt. xiii. 31a.
Luke xiii. 18b.
Mark iv. 30b; Luke xiii. 19a.
Matt. xiii. 31c; Mark iv. 31b.
Matt. xiii. 32b; Mark iv. 32b.
Mark iv. 33; or rather Matt. xiii. 33a.
Luke xiii. 20b.
Matt. xiii. 33b.
Matt. xiii. 34a; Mark iv. 33b.
Matt. xiii. 34b; Matt. xiii. 35.
The word (if not a corruption of that used in the Brit. Mus. text of Ibn-at-Tayyib’s Commentary, and in § 43, 46 where, however, according to Ciasca’s foot-note, it was not the word first written by the scribe) is Syriac. Perhaps it means the ends of the earth (see P. Smith, Thes. Syr.). Still a third word is used in § 47, 42.
Mark iv. 34b.
Matt. xiii. 36.
cf. § 11, 32, note.
Matt. xiii. 37.
Matt. xiii. 38.
Matt. xiii. 39.
Singular.
Matt. xiii. 40.
Matt. xiii. 41.
Matt. xiii. 42.
Matt. xiii. 43.
Matt. xiii. 44.
Matt. xiii. 45.
Matt. xiii. 46.
Matt. xiii. 47.
cf. note to § 10, 8.
Matt. xiii. 48.
Matt. xiii. 49.
Matt. xiii. 50.
Matt. xiii. 51.
Matt. xiii. 52.
Matt. xiii. 53.
Matt. xiii. 54.
Mark vi. 2.
Lit. powers.
Matt. xiii. 55.
Matt. xiii. 56.
Matt. xiii. 57.
Luke iv. 23.
cf. above, § 4, 24, note.
Luke iv. 24.
Mark vi. 4b.
Luke iv. 25.
Luke iv. 26.
Luke iv. 27.
Of the Syriac versions Cur. and Sin. are wanting. Pesh. has Aramæan.
Mark vi. 5.
Lit. powers.
Mark vi. 6a.
Luke iv. 28.
Luke iv. 29.
Luke iv. 30.
Mark vi. 6b.
Matt. xiv. 1; Luke ix. 7b.
Mark vi. 14b.
There can be little doubt that this is the meaning of the Arabic. There is nothing like it in the Peshitta; the Curetonian is of course lacking; but the phrase in the Sinaitic is very similar.