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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 8)
Matt. xxv. 27.
Lit. table (cf. Peshitta).
Matt. xxv. 28.
Matt. xxv. 29.
Matt. xxv. 30.
Luke xii. 35.
Luke xii. 36.
Luke xii. 37.
cf. Peshitta (and Greek).
Luke xii. 38.
Matt. xxv. 31.
Matt. xxv. 32.
Matt. xxv. 33.
Or, and setteth; but the Peshitta confirms the rendering given above.
Matt. xxv. 34.
cf. § 17, 17, note.
Matt. xxv. 35.
Matt. xxv. 36.
Matt. xxv. 37.
Matt. xxv. 38.
Matt. xxv. 39.
Matt. xxv. 40.
Perfect tenses, as in Peshitta.
Matt. xxv. 41.
Matt. xxv. 42.
Matt. xxv. 43.
Matt. xxv. 44.
Matt. xxv. 45.
Matt. xxv. 46.
Matt. xxvi. 1.
Borg. ms., the Lord Jesus.
Matt. xxvi. 2.
Matt. xxvi. 3.
Matt. xxvi. 4.
Matt. xxvi. 5.
Luke xxii. 2b.
Luke xxii. 3.
Luke xxii. 4a; Matt. xxvi. 15a.
Mark xiv. 11a; Matt. xxvi. 15b.
Probably the letter that stands for and should be repeated, and the phrase rendered and appointed.
So Vat. ms. (following Peshitta) and Ibn-at-Tayyib’s Commentary. Borg. ms., followed by Ciasca, has dirhams of money.
Luke xxii. 6.
Lit. became responsible unto. Syriac versions as in text above (cf. § 44, 33).
The Arabic (lit. a stumbling or a cause of stumbling) doubtless represents the Syriac.
Mark xiv. 12.
John xiii. 1.
John xiii. 2.
John xiii. 3.
John xiii. 4.
John xiii. 5.
John xiii. 6.
John xiii. 7.
John xiii. 8.
John xiii. 9.
John xiii. 10.
The Arabic word means swimmeth. The Syriac versions have is bathed, which Borg. ms. misreads bathed, and Vat. ms. (followed by Ciasca) corrupts into batheth, rendering it swimmeth.
John xiii. 11.
John xiii. 12.
John xiii. 13.
John xiii. 14.
John xiii. 15.
John xiii. 16.
John xiii. 17.
John xiii. 18.
Or, This my saying.
John xiii. 19.
John xiii. 20.
Luke xxii. 27.
Luke xxii. 28.
Luke xxii. 29.
Luke xxii. 30.
cf. § 44, 9, note.
cf. § 44, 9, note.
Luke xxii. 7.
Vat. ms. has the word day on the margin, added by a late hand.
The misprint in the Arabic text has been overlooked in the list of Corrigenda.
Or, kill.
Luke xxii. 8.
Luke xxii. 9.
Luke xxii. 10a.
Mark xiv. 13b; Luke xxii. 10b.
Luke xxii. 11a.
Matt. xxvi. 18b.
Luke xxii. 11b.
Luke xxii. 12.
Mark xiv. 15.
Mark xiv. 16.
Luke xxii. 14.
Luke xxii. 15.
Luke xxii. 16.
John xiii. 21a.
The Syriac word is retained. In Arabic it properly means become strong or proud (cf. § 38, 17).
Mark xiv. 18b; Mark xiv. 19.
Mark xiv. 20.
Luke xxii. 21.
Mark xiv. 21.
John xiii. 22.
Luke xxii. 23.
John xiii. 23.
The Syriac versions have reclining.
John xiii. 24.
John xiii. 25.
Lit. fell.
John xiii. 26.
John xiii. 27.
John xiii. 28.
John xiii. 29.
Matt. xxvi. 25.
John xiii. 30.
John xiii. 31.
A simple change of diacritical points would give the reading of the Greek and of the Syriac versions.
A simple change of diacritical points would give the reading of the Greek and of the Syriac versions.
John xiii. 32.
Mark xiv. 22a.
Matt. xxvi. 26b.
Mark xiv. 23a.
Matt. xxvi. 27b.
Mark xiv. 23b.
Mark xiv. 24a.
Matt. xxvi. 28.
Matt. xxvi. 29.
Peshitta adds it. The reading of the Sinaitic is doubtful.
Luke xxii. 19b.
Luke xxii. 31.
Luke xxii. 32.
Past tense in Syriac versions.
We may translate, with the Syriac versions, that thy faith fail not, only if we assign a somewhat Syriac meaning to the verb, and assume either an error in diacritical points (t for y) or an unusual (Syriac) gender for faith.
cf. Syriac versions.
John xiii. 33.
John xiii. 34.
John xiii. 35.
John xiii. 36.
Matt. xxvi. 31.
The Arabic word is not unlike the word for stumble, and Borg. ms. omits me.
Vat. ms. omits this night.
Matt. xxvi. 32.
Matt. xxvi. 33.
Luke xxii. 33b.
John xiii. 37b.
John xiii. 38a.
Mark xiv. 30b.
Luke xxii. 34b; Mark xiv. 31.
Or, went on saying.
Lit. end in. Or, if I come to (the point of).
John xiv. 1.
The diacritical points in both Vat. (followed by Ciasca) and Borg. mss. appear to demand a rendering inquire for be troubled. In Ibn-at-Tayyib’s comments (not the text), however (with other points), we have the meaning wail (root nhb). Every Syriac version uses a different word.
John xiv. 2.
Or, ranks.
Or, should tell.
Probably the Arabic represents a Syriac For I.
John xiv. 3.
John xiv. 4.
Different words.
Different words.
John xiv. 5.
cf. Ibn-at-Tayyib’s Commentary (f. 352a) and order of words in Peshitta (not Sin.).
John xiv. 6.
John xiv. 7.
Lit. have known.
John xiv. 8.
Different forms, as in Peshitta.
John xiv. 9.
More exactly, hast thou not come to know.
Different forms, as in Peshitta.
John xiv. 10.
John xiv. 11.
John xiv. 12.
John xiv. 13.
John xiv. 14.
The Borg. ms. has me clearly (cf. Peshitta). The Vat. ms. is ambiguous.
John xiv. 15.
John xiv. 16.
John xiv. 17.
Probably a misreading of the Peshitta (not Sin. or Cur.), since the next clause also agrees with it.
John xiv. 18.
John xiv. 19.
John xiv. 20.
John xiv. 21.
John xiv. 22.
John xiv. 23.
Lit. the (cf. Syriac versions).
John xiv. 24.
John xiv. 25.
John xiv. 26.
John xiv. 27.
John xiv. 28.
This word is quite unlike that used in § 45, 29.
The Syriac form of the introductory particle is wrongly used, for in Arabic it has interrogative force.
John xiv. 29.
John xiv. 30.
John xiv. 31a.
Luke xxii. 35.
The first letter of the Arabic word has lost its diacritical point.
Luke xxii. 36.
Luke xxii. 37.
A possible rendering of the Syriac he was reckoned.
Luke xxii. 38.
John xiv. 31b; Luke xxii. 39.
John xv. 1.
John xv. 2.
John xv. 3.
John xv. 4.
John xv. 5.
John xv. 6.
The verbs may be active or passive, but are singular (cf. § 38, 43, note).
John xv. 7.
John xv. 8.
John xv. 9.
John xv. 10.
John xv. 11.
Two words from the same root.
Two words from the same root.
John xv. 12.
John xv. 13.
John xv. 14.
John xv. 15.
John xv. 16.
Different words.
Or, shall and will, respectively.
Or, shall and will, respectively.
John xv. 17.
Or, have commanded.
John xv. 18.
John xv. 19.
John xv. 20.
cf. § 8, 34, note.
cf. § 8, 34, note.
John xv. 21.
The Arabic text (Vat.) is grammatically inaccurate, and the Borg. ms. has know not.
John xv. 22.
John xv. 23.
John xv. 24.
John xv. 25.
John xv. 26.
John xv. 27.
John xvi. 1.
Lit. sway (as one does in dozing).
John xvi. 2.
Or, the, as in Borg. ms.
John xvi. 3.
John xvi. 4.
John xvi. 5 [in the Greek and English verse 5 begins at But.].
In the Greek and English verse 5 begins at But.
John xvi. 6.
John xvi. 7.
Or, best.
John xvi. 8.
John xvi. 9.
John xvi. 10.
John xvi. 11.
Lit. that (cf. Peshitta).
John xvi. 12.
Or perhaps receive (them). Possibly a Syriac d has been read r. But Ibn-at-Tayyib in the text of his Commentary (f. 357a) has a word which perhaps might be rendered accommodate yourselves (to them) (same letters, but last two transposed), while his comment (f. 357b) gives ye cannot bear it.
John xvi. 13.
Or, And.
The Syriac words for remind and lead differ only in the length of a single stroke. Ibn-at-Tayyib (ibid. f. 357b) almost seems to have read illumine you with, although he calls attention to the “Greek” reading.
John xvi. 14.
John xvi. 15.
Same tense.
Same tense.
John xvi. 16.
John xvi. 17.
John xvi. 18.
John xvi. 19.
John xvi. 20.
Not quite the usual formula, there being here no article.
The Arabic might also be rendered be turned, but the Syriac is intransitive.
John xvi. 21.
John xvi. 22.
John xvi. 23.
Not quite the usual formula, there being here no article (cf. also § 47, 5).
John xvi. 24.
John xvi. 25.
Not the usual word for proverb or parable (cf. Syriac versions).
So Vat. ms. and Peshitta. The Borg. ms., followed by Ciasca, has and a time when.
Not the usual word for proverb or parable (cf. Syriac versions).
cf. Peshitta.
John xvi. 26.
John xvi. 27.
John xvi. 28.
John xvi. 29.
John xvi. 30.
John xvi. 31.
John xvi. 32.
John xvi. 33.
John xvii. 1.
John xvii. 2.
Lit. it or him.
John xvii. 3.
In the Borg. ms. the sentence begins with that they might, the preceding clause being omitted.
The above is perhaps the most natural rendering of the Arabic; but the latter is really only an awkward word-for-word reproduction of the Peshitta, which means know thee, who alone art the God of truth, and him whom thou didst send, (even) Jesus the Messiah.
John xvii. 4.
John xvii. 5.
John xvii. 6.
John xvii. 7.
So Ciasca’s text. The Vat. ms. has I, with the Peshitta and probably Sinaitic.
John xvii. 8.
John xvii. 9.
John xvii. 10.
John xvii. 11.
So in Sinaitic. The Peshitta omits My.
John xvii. 12.
John xvii. 13.
John xvii. 14.
John xvii. 15.
John xvii. 16.
John xvii. 17.
John xvii. 18.
John xvii. 19.
John xvii. 20.
John xvii. 21.
John xvii. 22.
John xvii. 23.
Vat. ms. has as.
cf. Peshitta, as pointed in the editions.
John xvii. 24.
cf. § 17, 17, note.
John xvii. 25.
The Arabic as it stands should mean My Father is righteous; but it is simply the ordinary Syriac reading, and is so rendered above.
John xvii. 26.
Or perhaps may.
John xviii. 1.
Matt. xxvi. 36.
Vat. ms. has and on.
The word rendered plain (cf. Dozy, Supplement, sub voc.), which occurs also in the text of Ibn-at-Tayyib (loc. cit., f. 362b), properly means lake. The word in the Jerusalem Lectionary means valley as well as stream. For the whole clause cf. the text of John xviii. in Die vier Evangelien, arabisch, aus der Wiener Handschrift, edited by P. de Lagarde, 1864.
cf. Sinaitic Syriac and Luke xxii. 39.
John xviii. 2.
Luke xxii. 40a; Matt. xxvi. 36b.
Luke xxii. 40b; Matt. xxvi. 37.
Matt. xxvi. 38.
Luke xxii. 41a.
Mark xiv. 35b.
Lit. fell on his knees.
Lit. let this hour pass. The Borg. ms. omits him.
Mark xiv. 36a.
Luke xxii. 42b.
Matt. xxvi. 40a; Mark xiv. 37b.
Matt. xxvi. 40b.
Matt. xxvi. 41a; Matt. xiv. 38b.
Lit. diseased. The Arabic word is rare in the sense required by the context (cf. Pesh.).
Matt. xxvi. 42.
This reading would perhaps more easily arise out of the Sinaitic than out of the Peshitta.
Mark xiv. 40.
Matt. xxvi. 44.
Luke xxii. 43.
Luke xxii. 44.
cf. Peshitta. Or, And although he was afraid.
The Peshitta (hardly Cur.) is capable of this interpretation.
cf. Syr., especially Peshitta.
Luke xxii. 45a.
Luke xxii. 46; Matt. xxvi. 45b.
Mark xiv. 41b.
cf. Syr., especially Peshitta.
Mark xiv. 42a; Matt. xxvi. 46b.
cf. § 4, 20, note.
Matt. xxvi. 47.
John xviii. 3.
cf. John xviii. 3 (Jerusalem Lectionary). In Syriac Romans means soldiers. The Arabic footsoldiers might be man (singular).
Matt. xxvi. 48; Mark xiv. 44b.
cf. Syriac versions. Obviously we must supply a diacritical point over the last radical, or read the middle one as dhal.
Lit. him to —. Borg. ms. probably means bear him away.
John xviii. 4a.
Matt. xxvi. 49; Matt. xxvi. 50a.
Luke xxii. 48b.
Matt. xxvi. 50b; Luke xxii. 52a, c.
John xviii. 4b; John xviii. 5.
John xviii. 6.
John xviii. 7.
John xviii. 8.
John xviii. 9.