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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 7)
John xi. 13.
John xi. 14.
John xi. 15.
John xi. 16.
The Syriac word for Twin.
John xi. 17.
John xi. 18.
Arabic mil, a somewhat indefinite distance.
John xi. 19.
John xi. 20.
John xi. 21.
John xi. 22.
John xi. 23.
John xi. 24.
John xi. 25.
John xi. 26.
John xi. 27.
John xi. 28.
John xi. 29.
John xi. 30.
John xi. 31.
John xi. 32.
John xi. 33.
This is the Syriac word (cf. the versions, and below, § 44, 44; see also Ibn-at-Tayyib’s Commentary, ad loc).
John xi. 34.
John xi. 35.
So in Syriac versions.
John xi. 36.
John xi. 37.
John xi. 38.
John xi. 39.
Borg. ms. omits some time: he hath been.
John xi. 40.
John xi. 41.
John xi. 42.
John xi. 43.
John xi. 44.
John xi. 45.
John xi. 46.
John xi. 47.
John xi. 48.
John xi. 49.
John xi. 50.
John xi. 51.
So both mss.; but the Vat. ms. had originally a reading equivalent to the text above with of omitted.
John xi. 52.
John xi. 53.
John xi. 54.
The Arabic word as printed (following Vat. ms.) means a place for monks to live in, but we should certainly restore a diacritical point over the last letter, and thus obtain another Syriac loan-word (that used here in the Peshitta), meaning town. See also Ibn-at-Tayyib’s Commentary, ad loc.
John xi. 55.
John xi. 56.
John xi. 57.
Luke ix. 51.
The present Arabic reading in going could pretty easily arise from that assumed in the translation above.
Luke ix. 52.
This and the following verb are singular in the printed Arabic (against the versions), although Ciasca renders them plural. A copyist using a carelessly written Arabic exemplar might conceivably overlook the plural terminations. Besides, they are often omitted in Syriac mss.
cf. note, § 1, 40.
Luke ix. 53.
Lit. his body.
Luke ix. 54.
Luke ix. 55.
Luke ix. 56.
John xii. 1.
cf. the Greek phrase.
John xii. 2.
Lit. he made (cf. first note to § 38, 43, last sentence).
Mark xiv. 3a.
John xii. 9.
John xii. 10.
John xii. 11.
John xii. 3a.
Mark xiv. 3b.
John xii. 3b.
John xii. 4.
John xii. 5.
John xii. 6.
Lit. fell (cf. § 25, 18).
Mark xiv. 4.
Matt. xxvi. 9.
Mark xiv. 5b.
Or, spake angrily to.
Matt. xxvi. 10a.
Mark xiv. 6b.
John xii. 7b.
John xii. 8a.
Mark xiv. 7b.
Matt. xxvi. 12.
Lit. cast, as in Greek.
Mark xiv. 8b; Mark xiv. 9.
Luke xix. 28.
Luke xix. 29a; Matt. xxi. 1b.
Matt. xxi. 2a; Mark xi. 2b.
Matt. xxi. 2b; Luke xix. 30b.
Sic.
Dual in Arabic.
Matt. xxi. 2c; Luke xix. 31a.
Matt. xxi. 3b; Matt. xxi. 4.
Matt. xxi. 5.
John xii. 16.
Matt. xxi. 6a; Luke xix. 32b.
Matt. xxi. 6b; Luke xix. 33.
Luke xix. 34.
Mark xi. 6b; Matt. xxi. 7.
Matt. xxi. 8.
Luke xix. 37.
The Syriac versions have the.
Matt. xxi. 9b [or better Luke xix. 38a.].
Mark xi. 10a.
Or, and, Blessed.
The Arabic has to, but it probably represents the Syriac text with the meaning given above.
Luke xix. 38c.
John xii. 12b.
Lit. the heart (or, pith) of the palm. The word pith, which occurs also in the Æhiopic version (Ezek. xxvii. 25; Jubilees, ch. 16) and in Ibn-at-Tayyib’s exposition, though not in the Brit. Mus. gospel text, is perhaps used here of the inner branches from its resemblance to the post-biblical Hebrew word employed in accounts of the Feast of Tabernacles.
John xii. 13.
Luke xix. 39.
Luke xix. 40.
Luke xix. 41.
Luke xix. 42.
Lit. are found, a rendering due to the Syriac.
Luke xix. 43.
Luke xix. 44.
So Ciasca’s text, following Vat. ms. The other ms. has drag, which by restoring a diacritical point to the third radical would give destroy, the reading of the Syriac versions. Ibn-at-Tayyib’s Commentary has hide.
Matt. xxi. 10.
Matt. xxi. 11.
John xii. 17.
John xii. 18.
Matt. xxi. 14.
Matt. xxi. 15.
Matt. xxi. 16.
John xii. 19.
John xii. 20.
John xii. 21.
John xii. 22.
John xii. 23.
John xii. 24.
John xii. 25.
Or, soul; or, self.
Or, soul; or, self.
John xii. 26.
John xii. 27.
John xii. 28.
John xii. 29.
John xii. 30.
John xii. 31.
John xii. 32.
John xii. 33.
John xii. 34.
John xii. 35.
John xii. 36.
Luke xvii. 20.
Luke xvii. 21.
Luke xxi. 37.
Luke xxi. 38.
i.e., used to come.
Matt. xxiii. 1.
Matt. xxiii. 2.
Matt. xxiii. 3.
Matt. xxiii. 4.
Or, touch.
Matt. xxiii. 5a.
Mark xii. 37b.
Mark xii. 38.
Mark xii. 39.
Matt. xxiii. 5b.
Matt. xxiii. 7b.
Mark xii. 40.
The Syriac word means on the pretext of as well as because of (cf. § 50, 11, note).
Matt. xxiii. 8.
This word is not spelled in the ordinary way. Doubtless we should supply two diacritical points and read, with the Syriac versions, My master.
Matt. xxiii. 9.
cf. Peshitta.
Matt. xxiii. 10.
Matt. xxiii. 11.
Matt. xxiii. 12.
Luke xi. 43.
Matt. xxiii. 14.
Syriac, same as in § 40, 35; Arabic different.
Matt. xxiii. 13a.
Luke xi. 52a.
Matt. xxiii. 13b.
Matt. xxiii. 15.
Adopting the reading of Borg. ms. (cf. next verse).
Perhaps this reading is due to the easy confusion of d and r in Syriac; but it might also conceivably be a corruption of the Arabic word in the next clause. It occurs also in the text of Ibn-at-Tayyib’s Commentary.
Doubtless the Arabic word should be read as a monosyllable, as in Ibn-at-Tayyib’s Commentary.
Matt. xxiii. 16.
See § 10, 13.
Matt. xxiii. 17.
Matt. xxiii. 18.
See § 10, 13.
Matt. xxiii. 19.
Matt. xxiii. 20.
Matt. xxiii. 21.
Matt. xxiii. 22.
Matt. xxiii. 23.
Matt. xxiii. 24.
The Arabic word as printed gives no suitable sense. Either the last radical has been omitted, or the last two radicals have exchanged places.
Matt. xxiii. 25.
Matt. xxiii. 26.
Matt. xxiii. 27.
Lit. are seen.
Matt. xxiii. 28.
Luke xi. 45.
Luke xi. 46.
Or, touch.
Matt. xxiii. 29a; Luke xi. 47b; Matt. xxiii. 29b.
Matt. xxiii. 30.
Matt. xxiii. 31.
Matt. xxiii. 32.
Lit. boundary or limit.
Matt. xxiii. 33.
Matt. xxiii. 34.
cf. 8, 34.
Matt. xxiii. 35.
Or, earth.
Or, sanctuary.
Matt. xxiii. 36.
See § 1, 49, note.
Matt. xxiii. 37.
Matt. xxiii. 38.
Matt. xxiii. 39.
John xii. 42.
Lit. become.
John xii. 43.
John xii. 44.
John xii. 45.
John xii. 46.
The text as it stands ought to mean I am a light. I am come; but it is a word-for-word reproduction of the Peshitta, and should therefore doubtless be rendered as above.
John xii. 47.
Or, to save the world (cf. § 1, 78, note).
John xii. 48.
See § 20, 28, note.
John xii. 49.
Not the same word.
Not the same word.
John xii. 50.
Luke xi. 53.
So Ciasca, following Vat. ms. The true reading, however, is probably that underlying the Borg. ms. If we restore diacritical points to the radical letters we get deceiving (cf. § 41, 31), an alternative meaning (or the word laying wait for, used in the Peshitta. The Arabic follows the Peshitta very closely in this and the following verse.
Luke xi. 54.
Luke xii. 1.
Luke xii. 2.
Luke xii. 3.
John xii. 36b.
John xii. 37.
John xii. 38.
John xii. 39.
John xii. 40.
John xii. 41.
Matt. xxiv. 1.
Or, and shewed.
Mark xiii. 1b; Luke xxi. 5b.
Matt. xxiv. 2a.
Luke xix. 43a; Luke xix. 44b [or rather Matt. xxiv. 2b, or Mark xiii. 2b].
Mark xiv. 1.
Lit. before two days would be (cf. Sin. and above, § 39, 1, note).
cf. § 41, 16, note.
Mark xiv. 2.
Mark xiii. 3.
Luke xxi. 7b; Matt. xxiv. 3b.
Matt. xxiv. 4a; Luke xvii. 22b; Matt. xxiv. 4b.
Matt. xxiv. 5a.
Luke xxi. 8b.
Mark xiii. 6b; Luke xxi. 8c.
Mark xiii. 7a; Matt. xxiv. 7b; Luke xxi. 9b.
Or, that ye be, if we suppose the present text to have resulted from the loss of the second of two alifs.
Matt. xxiv. 7a.
Luke xxi. 11.
Or, omit that.
Matt. xxiv. 8.
Luke xxi. 12.
Luke xxi. 13.
Mark xiii. 10.
Luke xii. 11.
Mark xiii. 11b.
Luke xxi. 14.
Luke xxi. 15.
The Arabic text lacks a letter.
Borg. ms. reads you the fruits of wisdom.
Matt. xxiv. 9.
Matt. xxiv. 30.
See § 25, 17, note.
Luke xxi. 16.
Luke xxi. 18.
Luke xxi. 19.
Or, possess.
Matt. xxiv. 11.
So the Arabic text; but it doubtless simply represents the Syriac, which here agrees with the Greek.
Matt. xxiv. 12.
Matt. xxiv. 13.
Matt. xxiv. 14.
So the Arabic text; but it doubtless simply represents the Syriac, which here agrees with the Greek.
Luke xxi. 20.
Luke xxi. 21.
Luke xxi. 22.
Matt. xxiv. 15.
So Vat. ms., following the Peshitta. Ciasca follows Borg. ms., which by a change of diacritical points has the hardly grammatical reading, see that it is the desolation, the unclean thing spoken of. Ibn-at-Tayyib’s Commentary supports Vat. ms.
Matt. xxiv. 16.
Mark xiii. 15.
Mark xiii. 16.
Luke xxi. 23.
Luke xxi. 24.
This word has a Syriac meaning given to it. In Arabic it means war.
Mark xiii. 21.
Matt. xxiv. 24.
Mark xiii. 23.
Matt. xxiv. 26.
Matt. xxiv. 27.
Luke xvii. 25.
cf. § 16, 2.
Matt. xxiv. 20.
Matt. xxiv. 21.
Same Arabic (and Syriac) word as in § 41, 50.
Mark xiii. 20.
Luke xxi. 25.
Same Arabic (and Syriac) word as in § 41, 50.
So the Borg. ms. The Vat. ms., followed by Ciasca, has grief.
Luke xxi. 26a.
Mark xiii. 24a; Matt. xxiv. 29.
Matt. xxiv. 30.
Matt. xxiv. 31.
Lit. the end of heaven unto its end.
Luke xxi. 28.
Or, deliverance.
Matt. xxiv. 32.
cf. Peshitta, which text the translator seems to have misread.
Matt. xxiv. 33.
Matt. xxiv. 34.
Matt. xxiv. 35.
Luke xxi. 34.
cf. Peshitta.
Luke xxi. 35.
Luke xxi. 36.
Mark xiii. 32.
Mark xiii. 33.
Mark xiii. 34.
Mark xiii. 35.
cf. § 9, 21.
Mark xiii. 36.
Mark xiii. 37.
Matt. xxiv. 37.
Matt. xxiv. 38.
Matt. xxiv. 39.
Luke xvii. 28.
Luke xvii. 29.
Luke xvii. 30.
Or, appeareth.
Luke xvii. 31.
cf. § 14, 24 note.
Luke xvii. 32.
Luke xvii. 33.
Luke xvii. 34.
Luke xvii. 35.
Luke xvii. 36.
Luke xvii. 37.
Matt. xxiv. 42.
Matt. xxiv. 43.
Matt. xxiv. 44.
Luke xii. 41.
Luke xii. 42a [Borg. ms. omits Luke xii. 42a]; Matt. xxiv. 45.
i.e., the steward.
Borg. ms. has trusted and faithful. Doubtless we should supply diacritical points to the reading of Vat. ms., and translate trusted and wise. Ibn-at-Tayyib’s Commentary, however, has both and wise and the word translated with control, used in a different sense.
Matt. xxiv. 46.
Luke xii. 44a; Matt. xxiv. 47b.
Matt. xxiv. 48; Luke xii. 45b.
Matt. xxiv. 49b.
Matt. xxiv. 50.
Matt. xxiv. 51a.
Luke xii. 46b.
Matt. xxiv. 51b.
Matt. xxv. 1.
Matt. xxv. 2.
Matt. xxv. 3.
Matt. xxv. 4.
Matt. xxv. 5.
Matt. xxv. 6.
Matt. xxv. 7.
Matt. xxv. 8.
Matt. xxv. 9.
See § 10, 17, and § 4, 24, note.
Matt. xxv. 10.
Matt. xxv. 11.
Matt. xxv. 12.
Matt. xxv. 13.
Matt. xxv. 14.
Matt. xxv. 15.
cf. § 27, 2, note.
Matt. xxv. 16.
Matt. xxv. 17.
Matt. xxv. 18.
Matt. xxv. 19.
Matt. xxv. 20.
Matt. xxv. 21.
Matt. xxv. 22.
Matt. xxv. 23.
A Persian word. The Vat. ms. omits it.
Matt. xxv. 24.
Matt. xxv. 25.
Matt. xxv. 26.