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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 4)
Luke ix. 7c.
Luke ix. 8a; Matt. xvi. 14b.
Here begins verse 8a in Greek.
Luke ix. 8b; Mark vi. 15b.
Mark vi. 16; Matt. xiv. 2b.
Mark vi. 17.
Mark vi. 18.
Mark vi. 19.
Mark vi. 20.
Matt. xiv. 5.
Mark vi. 21.
Perhaps appointment (cf. Moesinger, p. 165; but Isho‘dad [Harris, Fragments, p. 65] and the Brit. Mus. text of Ibn-at-Tayyib’s Commentary have the ordinary reading).
Mark vi. 22.
Mark vi. 23.
Mark vi. 24.
Or simply ask.
Mark vi. 25.
Mark vi. 26.
Mark vi. 27.
Mark vi. 28.
Mark vi. 29.
Matt. xiv. 12b.
Or, to tell.
Luke ix. 9.
Matt. xiv. 13a; John vi. 1b.
A misunderstanding or slavish reproduction of the Syriac. The Brit. Mus. text of Ibn-at-Tayyib’s Commentary has of Galilee, Tiberias.
Mark vi. 33a.
cf. Syriac versions and margin of R.V.
John vi. 2b.
John vi. 3.
John vi. 4.
John vi. 5a.
Mark vi. 34b.
Luke ix. 11b.
Matt. xiv. 15a.
Or, came.
Mark vi. 36.
cf. the addition in the Sinaitic Syriac.
Matt. xiv. 16.
Matt. xiv. 17a.
John vi. 5b.
John vi. 6.
John vi. 7.
Probably a mistaken rendering of the ordinary Syriac reading.
John vi. 8.
John vi. 9.
Luke ix. 13b; considerably changed.
John vi. 10b; and Luke ix. 14b, 15a.
Mark vi. 40.
Matt. xiv. 18.
Mark vi. 41a.
Matt. xiv. 19b.
Matt. xiv. 20a; John vi. 12.
John vi. 13.
Matt. xiv. 21.
Mark vi. 45.
John vi. 14.
John vi. 15.
John vi. 16.
cf. Syriac versions.
John vi. 17.
John vi. 18.
Matt. xiv. 24.
Matt. xiv. 25.
John vi. 19a, c.
Lit. travelled.
Matt. xiv. 26.
Matt. xiv. 27.
Matt. xiv. 28.
Matt. xiv. 29.
Matt. xiv. 30.
Matt. xiv. 31.
Matt. xiv. 32.
Matt. xiv. 33.
John vi. 21b.
Mark vi. 54a; Mark vi. 51b.
Mark vi. 52.
Lit. from.
Mark vi. 54; Mark vi. 55.
Strictly used of severe chronic disease.
Mark vi. 56.
cf. § 12, 13, and note to § 8, 17.
The word used at § 12, 35.
Or, revived, i.e., made to live.
John vi. 22a.
John vi. 23.
Lit. on the border of.
John vi. 24.
John vi. 25.
John vi. 26.
Or, for the sake of.
John vi. 27.
Sic.
Lit. this.
John vi. 28.
John vi. 29.
John vi. 30.
John vi. 31.
John vi. 32.
Represents a mistaken vocalisation of the Peshitta.
Lit. equity; see above, § 3, 53, note.
John vi. 33.
John vi. 34.
John vi. 35.
John vi. 36.
John vi. 37.
John vi. 38.
John vi. 39.
John vi. 40.
John vi. 41.
John vi. 42.
John vi. 43.
John vi. 44.
John vi. 45.
i.e., therefore (see note, § 9, 21).
John vi. 46.
John vi. 47.
John vi. 48.
John vi. 49.
John vi. 50.
John vi. 51.
John vi. 51b; in Ciasca’s text John vi. 51b–71 are cited as vi. 52–72. (See Introduction, 20, note.)
John vi. 52.
John vi. 53.
John vi. 54.
John vi. 55.
Or, eaten.
Or, drunk.
John vi. 56.
John vi. 57.
John vi. 58.
John vi. 59.
John vi. 60.
John vi. 61.
John vi. 62.
John vi. 63.
Lit. speech.
John vi. 64.
Or, did.
John vi. 65.
John vi. 66.
John vi. 67.
John vi. 68.
John vi. 69.
John vi. 70.
John vi. 71.
Or, was to.
Luke xi. 37.
Luke xi. 38.
Or, him.
Luke xi. 39.
Luke xi. 40.
Luke xi. 41.
cf. Peshitta.
Mark vii. 1.
Mark vii. 2.
Mark vii. 3.
i.e., were holding.
Or, custom, tradition; and so wherever the word occurs.
Mark vii. 4.
Mark vii. 5.
Sic.
Matt. xv. 3.
Matt. xv. 4a; Mark vii. 10b.
Mark vii. 11.
The printed Arabic text has he receiveth and they, resulting from a misplacement of diacritical points by an Arabic copyist.
Mark vii. 12.
The printed Arabic text has he receiveth and they, resulting from a misplacement of diacritical points by an Arabic copyist.
Mark vii. 13.
The printed Arabic text has he receiveth and they, resulting from a misplacement of diacritical points by an Arabic copyist.
Mark vii. 8.
Mark vii. 9.
Here begins verse 9 in Greek.
The Syriac word for injure also means reject, deny.
Matt. xv. 7.
Matt. xv. 8.
Sic.
Matt. xv. 9.
Mark vii. 14.
Mark vii. 15.
Mark vii. 16.
Matt. xv. 12.
Matt. xv. 13.
Matt. xv. 14.
The Arabic word is here used with a Syriac meaning.
Mark vii. 17a; Matt. xv. 15.
Mark vii. 18b.
Mark vii. 19.
This clause in the Peshitta is not very clear, and the Arabic version fails to get from it the meaning of the Greek.
Matt. xv. 18.
Mark vii. 21.
Or, From within, from.
Mark vii. 22.
Mark vii. 23.
Matt. xv. 20b.
Matt. xv. 21a; Mark vii. 24b.
Or, about him.
Mark vii. 25a.
Mark vii. 26a.
Matt. xv. 22b.
Or, the devil.
Matt. xv. 23.
Matt. xv. 24.
Matt. xv. 25.
Matt. xv. 26.
Matt. xv. 27.
Matt. xv. 28a.
Mark vii. 29b.
Matt. xv. 28b.
Mark vii. 30.
Mark vii. 31.
Mark vii. 32.
Mark vii. 33.
Mark vii. 34.
Mark vii. 35.
Mark vii. 36.
Mark vii. 37.
John iv. 4.
John iv. 5.
John iv. 6.
Lit. six hours (cf. Syr.).
John iv. 7.
John iv. 8.
John iv. 9.
John iv. 10.
For the form cf. below, § 34, 40.
John iv. 11.
John iv. 12.
John iv. 13.
John iv. 14.
John iv. 15.
John iv. 16.
John iv. 17.
John iv. 18.
John iv. 19.
John iv. 20.
John iv. 21.
John iv. 22.
John iv. 23.
John iv. 24.
John iv. 25.
John iv. 26.
John iv. 27.
Or, was speaking.
But see note to § 7, 38.
John iv. 28.
John iv. 29.
John iv. 30.
John iv. 31.
John iv. 32.
John iv. 33.
The text is uncertain.
John iv. 34.
John iv. 35.
Or, come beforehand.
John iv. 36.
So in the Arabic, contrary to the usual practice of this writer (cf. § 6, 19).
John iv. 37.
John iv. 38.
John iv. 39.
John iv. 40.
John iv. 41.
John iv. 42.
John iv. 43.
John iv. 44.
John iv. 45a.
Luke v. 12.
Mark i. 41.
Lit. to cleanse.
Mark i. 42.
Mark i. 43.
Mark i. 44.
Mark i. 45a.
Luke v. 15.
This phrase does not occur in the Syriac versions (Cur. wanting), but is obviously a Syriac construction.
Luke v. 16.
John v. 1.
John v. 2.
Or, baptism. The phrase almost exactly reproduces the Syriac versions.
John v. 3.
John v. 4.
Or, baptism. The phrase almost exactly reproduces the Syriac versions.
John v. 5.
John v. 6.
Or, learned.
John v. 7.
John v. 8.
John v. 9.
John v. 10.
Vat. ms. has he.
John v. 11.
John v. 12.
John v. 13.
John v. 14.
John v. 15.
John v. 16.
John v. 17.
John v. 18.
John v. 19.
John v. 20.
John v. 21.
John v. 22.
John v. 23.
John v. 24.
John v. 25.
John v. 26.
Borg. ms. reads his person.
Borg. ms. reads his person.
John v. 27.
Lit. that; or, Verily.
John v. 28.
John v. 29.
John v. 30.
John v. 31.
So Ciasca’s Arabic text. Borg. ms. has If I, and instead of and so, etc., simply a witness which is not true, etc.; but its text of the next sentence is quite corrupt.
So Ciasca’s Arabic text. Borg. ms. has If I, and instead of and so, etc., simply a witness which is not true, etc.; but its text of the next sentence is quite corrupt.
John v. 32.
John v. 33.
John v. 34.
Or, be saved.
John v. 35.
Or, that (man).
Were it not also in Ibn-at-Tayyib’s Commentary (Brit. Mus. text) we should assume now to be a corruption of an original Arabic reading, for a season (cf. Syr.).
John v. 36.
John v. 37.
John v. 38.
John v. 39.
This word (often used by our translator) means in Syriac (transposed) believe, think, hope (cf. § 8, 8, note).
John v. 40.
John v. 41.
John v. 42.
John v. 43.
John v. 44.
John v. 45.
This word (often used by our translator) means in Syriac (transposed) believe, think, hope (cf. § 8, 8, note).
John v. 46.
John v. 47.
Matt. xv. 29.
Matt. xv. 30a.
John iv. 45b.
Matt. xv. 30b.
Matt. xv. 31.
Matt. xv. 32.
Mark viii. 3b.
Matt. xv. 33.
Matt. xv. 34.
Matt. xv. 35.
Matt. xv. 36.
Matt. xv. 37.
Matt. xv. 38.
Matt. xv. 39.
Arabic Magadu, as in Peshitta.
Matt. xvi. 1a; Mark viii. 11b.
Mark viii. 12a; Matt. xvi. 4.
Mark viii. 12b.
Mark viii. 13.
cf. § 11, 32, note.
Mark viii. 14.
The change of a single letter in the Arabic would turn not even into except; but Ibn-at-Tayyib’s Commentary (Brit. Mus. text) also has not even.
Mark viii. 15.
Matt. xvi. 7.
Matt. xvi. 8.
Lit. What. See note to § 7, 38.
Mark viii. 17b.
Mark viii. 18.
Mark viii. 19.
Or, ye took.
Mark viii. 20.
Or, ye took.
Mark viii. 21a; Matt. xvi. 11.
Or, concerning.
Matt. xvi. 12.
Mark viii. 22.
Lit. one, probably representing Syriac idiom (cf. Sinaitic?).
Mark viii. 23.
The Peshitta also omits on him.
Mark viii. 24.
Mark viii. 25.
An intransitive word.
Mark viii. 26.
Mark viii. 27a.
Matt. xvi. 13b.
Or, his disciples being alone. There is no such clause in the Syriac versions (Pesh., Sin.).
The Arabic, which reappears in Ibn-at-Tayyib’s Commentary (Brit. Mus. text), and seems to represent the consonantal text of the Peshitta, is awkward. § 23, 34 (Arabic), shows, however, that the rendering given in the text is the meaning intended by the translator.
Matt. xvi. 14.
Matt. xvi. 15.
Matt. xvi. 16.
Matt. xvi. 17.
Matt. xvi. 18.
Same Arabic word in both places. See note to § 5, 11.
Matt. xvi. 19.
Matt. xvi. 20.
Matt. xvi. 21a.
The word is freely used in this work in the post-classical sense of about to.
Mark viii. 31b.
Mark viii. 32a.
The Arabic might perhaps be construed and to speak, depending on began in § 23, 40; but the clause agrees with the Sinaitic of Mark, as does the following.
Matt. xvi. 22.
Mark viii. 33a.
Matt. xvi. 23b.
Mark viii. 34a; Luke ix. 23b.
Mark viii. 35.
Luke ix. 25.
Or, lose.
Or, self; or, soul.
Mark viii. 37.
Or, self; or, soul.
Mark viii. 38.
Matt. xvi. 27.
See § 23, 40, note.
Mark ix. 1.
i.e., already come.
Matt. xvi. 28b.
Matt. xvii. 1.
Luke ix. 29a.
Matt. xvii. 2b; Luke ix. 29b.
Or, become white. In the Pesh. the verb is transitive. In Sin. the clause is omitted.
Mark ix. 3b; Mark ix. 4.
Luke ix. 31b.
Luke ix. 32.
Luke ix. 33a.
Matt. xvii. 4b.
Luke ix. 33c.
Mark ix. 6b; Matt. xvii. 5a.
Luke ix. 34b.
Matt. xvii. 5b.
Luke ix. 36a.
Matt. xvii. 6.
Matt. xvii. 7.
Matt. xvii. 8.
Matt. xvii. 9.
Mark ix. 10a; Luke ix. 36c.
Mark ix. 10b.
Mark ix. 11a; Matt. xvii. 10b.
Mark ix. 12.
Mark ix. 13.
Matt. xvii. 12b.
Matt. xvii. 13.
Mark ix. 14.
Mark ix. 15.
This rendering assumes that the diacritical point is due to a clerical error. The text as printed can hardly be translated without forcing.
This Arabic word repeatedly represents a Syriac ran (cf. § 53, 11). A different word is so used in § 26, 21.
Luke xiii. 31.
Luke xiii. 32.
Luke xiii. 33.
The Syriac word used in the Peshitta is here translated just as it was translated in § 1, 79 (see note); but the Greek shows that in the present passage the Syriac word means go about (cf. Cur.).