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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 9)
Matt. xxvi. 50c.
Luke xxii. 49.
John xviii. 10.
John xviii. 11a.
John xviii. 11c; Matt. xxvi. 52b.
Withis doubtless an accidental repetition of by (the same Arabic particle) in the next clause.
Matt. xxvi. 53.
The introductory interrogative particle may represent an original Or.
Vat. ms. omits than, and has more only in the margin by another hand.
Matt. xxvi. 54.
Luke xxii. 51b.
The phrase is awkward. The rendering is different in the text (f. 292a, cf. Lagarde, Die vier Evv.), and yet again in the comment (f. 293a) of Ibn-at-Tayyib’s Commentary.
Matt. xxvi. 55.
Luke xxii. 53b.
Matt. xxvi. 56.
John xviii. 12a.
cf. § 11, 11.
Mark xiv. 51.
Lit. one.
Mark xiv. 52.
John xviii. 12b; John xviii. 13.
John xviii. 14.
John xviii. 15.
John xviii. 16.
John xviii. 17a.
Luke xxii. 57; Mark xiv. 68b.
John xviii. 18a.
Luke xxii. 55a.
John xviii. 18c; Matt. xxvi. 58b.
John xviii. 19.
cf. § 6, 40, note.
John xviii. 20.
Peshitta, spake; Sin. omits the verse; Cur. lacking.
John xviii. 21.
John xviii. 22.
See § 9, 7, note.
John xviii. 23.
Borg. ms. has the evil.
John xviii. 24.
John xviii. 25a.
Mark xiv. 69a.
Matt. xxvi. 71b; Matt. xxvi. 73b.
Matt. xxvi. 72.
Luke xxii. 58a; John xviii. 26a.
This is an alternative meaning of the Syriac word affirmed, used in the Peshitta.
Luke xxii. 59b.
cf. Sinaitic (Curetonian wanting). Vat. ms., which Ciasca follows, adds him or it.
Matt. xxvi. 73c; John xviii. 26b.
Mark xiv. 71.
Borg. ms., by adding diacritical points, gets asserted.
Luke xxii. 60b.
Luke xxii. 61a.
Mark xiv. 30b, c.
Luke xxii. 62.
Luke xxii. 66a.
Matt. xxvii. 1b.
Matt. xxvi. 59b.
Matt. xxvi. 60a.
Mark xiv. 59.
Matt. xxvi. 60b.
Mark xiv. 57b; Mark xiv. 58.
Syriac order, but not in agreement with the versions.
Mark xiv. 59; Matt. xxvi. 63a.
Mark xiv. 60a.
Matt. xxvi. 62b.
Vat. ms. has anything, when these.
Mark xiv. 61a.
Luke xxii. 66b.
The word usually means synagogue in this work.
Luke xxii. 67.
Luke xxii. 68.
Matt. xxvi. 63b.
Matt. xxvi. 64a.
Luke xxii. 70.
Matt. xxvi. 64b.
Mark xiv. 63a; Matt. xxvi. 65b.
The foreign word used in the Peshitta is preserved. The Sinaitic uses a Syriac word meaning garment.
Luke xxii. 71.
Mark xiv. 64b; Matt. xxvi. 66.
Mark xiv. 65a; Luke xxii. 63b.
Mark xiv. 65c; Matt. xxvi. 68.
See § 9, 7, note.
Luke xxii. 65.
See § 7, 17, note.
John xviii. 28; Mark xv. 1b.
cf. Luke xxiii. 1a.
cf. Matt. xxvii. 2; Mark xv. 1.
Arabic, diwdn.
John xviii. 28c.
Matt. xxvii. 11a; John xviii. 29.
Lit. plea.
John xviii. 30.
Luke xxiii. 2b.
John xviii. 31.
John xviii. 32.
John xviii. 33.
John xviii. 34.
John xviii. 35.
See § 4, 24, note.
The Syriac word.
John xviii. 36.
John xviii. 37.
John xviii. 38a.
Luke xxiii. 4.
Luke xxiii. 5.
Or, led astray (cf. § 25, 17, note).
cf. Syriac versions.
Luke xxiii. 6.
Luke xxiii. 7.
Luke xxiii. 8.
Same word as in § 10, 16 (see note there).
Luke xxiii. 9.
Luke xxiii. 10.
Luke xxiii. 11.
Luke xxiii. 12.
Lit. and there was.
Luke xxiii. 13.
Luke xxiii. 14.
The Arabic word may also, like the Syriac, mean thing, but hardly, as that does here, fault or crime. The Vat. ms., pointing differently, reads thing. The same confusion occurs at § 40, 35 (cf. a converse case in § 25, 40).
So Ciasca’s text, following the Borg. ms. The Vat. ms. has plotted, which is nearer the Syriac accuse.
Luke xxiii. 15.
Luke xxiii. 16.
Luke xxiii. 18a.
Mark xv. 3a.
Matt. xxvii. 12.
Matt. xxvii. 13.
Matt. xxvii. 14.
Matt. xxvii. 19.
See § 3, 12, note.
Matt. xxvii. 15.
Matt. xxvii. 16.
Matt. xxvii. 17a.
John xviii. 39.
John xviii. 40.
Luke xxiii. 19.
Ciasca’s text, following the Vat. ms., has disorder. Borg. ms. has division (cf. heresies, Curetonian of § 50, 37), which by addition of a diacritical point gives sedition; cf. § 50, 37 (Ciasca, following Vat. ms.), and Peshitta (both places).
Mark xv. 8.
Mark xv. 9a; Matt. xxvii. 17b.
Matt. xxvii. 18.
Matt. xxvii. 20.
Matt. xxvii. 21.
Matt. xxvii. 22a.
Mark xv. 13.
Luke xxiii. 20.
Luke xxiii. 21.
Luke xxiii. 22.
Our translator has retained the Syriac word, which in this context means fault (see § 50, 11, note).
Luke xxiii. 23.
The word used in Vat ms. means a repeated charge or attack. That in Borg. ms. is probably used in the post-classical sense of importuning him. Either word might be written by a copyist for the other. The same double reading probably occurs again at § 53, 55.
Mark xv. 15a; Luke xxiii. 25a.
Matt. xxvii. 26b.
cf. Syriac versions.
Matt. xxvii. 27.
Matt. xxvii. 28.
John xix. 2.
Matt. xxvii. 29b.
This may be a mere clerical error (very natural in Arabic) for scoffed at, the reading of the Syriac versions. This being so, it is worthy of remark that the reading is apparently common to the two mss. The Syriac words are, however, also somewhat similar. The Jerusalem Lectionary has a word agreeing with the text above.
Lit. Peace.
Matt. xxvii. 30.
John xix. 3b.
John xix. 4.
This reading may be a corruption of a very literal rendering of the Peshitta.
cf. § 50, 11.
John xix. 5.
John xix. 6.
cf. § 11, 11, note.
See § 50, 35, note.
John xix. 7.
John xix. 8.
John xix. 9.
John xix. 10.
Borg. ms., Why speakest; a reading that might be a corruption of the Peshitta.
John xix. 11.
Lit. even one (Pesh.).
John xix. 12.
John xix. 13.
John xix. 14.
Lit. six hours.
John xix. 15.
Matt. xxvii. 24.
Or, that.
cf. Peshitta. Or, Ye know (cf. Sinaitic).
Matt. xxvii. 25.
John xix. 16a.
Matt. xxvii. 3.
Matt. xxvii. 4.
Matt. xxvii. 5.
Borg. ms. omits and he went away.
Lit. strangled.
Matt. xxvii. 6.
cf. § 32, 15, note.
Matt. xxvii. 7.
Matt. xxvii. 8.
Matt. xxvii. 9.
Or, at that (time).
Matt. xxvii. 10.
John xix. 16b; Mark xv. 20b.
John xix. 17a; Matt. xxvii. 31b.
Matt. xxvii. 32a; Mark xv. 21b.
Matt. xxvii. 32b.
Luke xxiii. 26b.
Luke xxiii. 27.
Lit. being burned. The text is probably corrupt.
Luke xxiii. 28.
Luke xxiii. 29.
Luke xxiii. 30.
Luke xxiii. 31.
Lit. wood (cf. Syr. and Greek).
Luke xxiii. 32.
Or, others, malefactors.
Luke xxiii. 33a; John xix. 17c.
Luke xxiii. 33b.
Mark xv. 28.
Mark xv. 23a.
Matt. xxvii. 34b; Mark xv. 23b.
John xix. 23.
John xix. 24.
Matt. xxvii. 36.
John xix. 19.
Matt. xxvii. 37.
John xix. 20.
A different word from that in the preceding verse; in each case, the word used in the Peshitta (Cur. and Sin. lacking).
John xix. 21.
The Syriac words, retained in Ibn-at-Tayyib’s Commentary (f. 366a), seem to have been transposed. Vat. ms. omits he, probably meaning but that he said.
John xix. 22.
In a carelessly written Arabic ms. there is almost no difference between hath been written and I have written, as it is in Ibn-at-Tayyib (loc. cit., f. 366a).
Luke xxiii. 35a; Matt. xxvii. 39.
cf. § 7, 17, note. Borg. ms. has jesting at.
The Arabic text has deriding (cf. § 51, 37). Either with is accidentally omitted, or, more probably, we should correct the spelling to shaking (cf. Syriac versions).
Matt. xxvii. 40a; Mark xv. 29.
Matt. xxvii. 40c.
Matt. xxvii. 41.
Matt. xxvii. 42a.
Luke xxiii. 35c; Matt. xxvii. 42c.
Verse 37 or Mt.
Matt. xxvii. 43.
Luke xxiii. 36.
Luke xxiii. 37.
Matt. xxvii. 44.
Borg. ms. has boys (an easy clerical error).
Luke xxiii. 39.
Luke xxiii. 40.
Luke xxiii. 41.
Our deed might be read we have done, and perhaps our translator’s style would justify our writing as for to.
Luke xxiii. 42.
Luke xxiii. 43.
Borg. ms. has Verily, verily.
John xix. 25.
A single word in Arabic.
Vat. ms. has and Mary.
John xix. 26.
John xix. 27.
Matt. xxvii. 45a; Luke xxiii. 44b.
Lit six hours and nine hours respectively.
Lit six hours and nine hours respectively.
Luke xxiii. 45a; Mark xv. 34.
In Vat. ms. the second word is like the first. The syllable Ya doubtless is the Arabic interjection O!
The Borg. ms. omits from which to me.
Matt. xxvii. 47.
Borg. ms. omits when they, and has and said.
John xix. 28.
John xix. 29a; Matt. xxvii. 48.
Mark xv. 36b.
cf. § 12, 13, note.
John xix. 30a.
Matt. xxvii. 49; Luke xxiii. 34.
Or, Let us.
Luke xxiii. 46a.
Lit. lay down.
John xix. 30b.
Matt. xxvii. 51.
cf. Syriac versions and Ibn-at-Tayyib’s Commentary. Vat. ms. omits the face of.
Matt. xxvii. 52.
Matt. xxvii. 53.
Matt. xxvii. 54.
This sentence is a good example of word-for-word translation of the Peshitta.
Luke xxiii. 47b; Matt. xxvii. 54b.
Luke xxiii. 48.
John xix. 31.
The word is probably plural.
John xix. 32.
John xix. 33.
John xix. 34.
Lit. ripped.
John xix. 35.
John xix. 36.
John xix. 37.
Lit. ripped.
Luke xxiii. 49a; Mark xv. 41b.
Matt. xxvii. 56a; Mark xv. 40b.
Matt. xxvii. 56c; Mark xv. 40c, 41c.
Luke xxiii. 49b.
Mark xv. 42.
Luke xxiii. 50.
Matt. xxvii. 57.
Borg. ms. omits.
Luke xxiii. 51b.
Syriac versions.
John xix. 38b.
Lit. the.
Luke xxiii. 51a.
Luke xxiii. 51c.
Mark xv. 43b.
Mark xv. 44.
Mark xv. 45a.
Matt. xxvii. 58b; Mark xv. 46a.
John xix. 38d; John xix. 39.
The preparation used in embalming.
John xix. 40.
John xix. 41.
Mark xv. 46. Lit. a stone.
John xix. 42.
Matt. xxvii. 60b.
On the plural, which is to be found also in Ibn-at-Tayyib’s Commentary, see § 38, 43, note (end). The word chosen might be simply a clerical error for an original Arabic rolled.
Lit. cast (cf. Sinaitic).
Mark xv. 47a.
Dual. The clause (from came) is found verbatim in Sin. and Cur. at Luke xxiii. 55. Here, after the word Luke of the reference, at the end of leaf 117 of Vat. ms., is a note by a later hand: “Here a leaf is wanting.” This second and last lacuna extends from § 52, 37, to § 53, 4.
Luke xxiii. 55b.
Matt. xxvii. 61b.
Luke xxiii. 56a; Mark xvi. 1b.
cf. Sinaitic.
The two Arabic words are practically synonymous (cf. Luke xxiii. 56, Pesh.).
Luke xxiii. 56.
Luke xxiii. 56c.
Matt. xxvii. 62.
Matt. xxvii. 63.
Matt. xxvii. 64.
The ms. omits the tomb.
Lit. three days.
Matt. xxvii. 65.
The word might be taken as a collective noun, singular. But cf. Peshitta and § 52, 51.
Matt. xxvii. 66.
Matt. xxviii. 1a; Luke xxiv. 1b.
cf. Peshitta. The Arabic word is variously explained.
Matt. xxviii. 1b; Luke xxiv. 1d.
Mark xvi. 3.
Mark xvi. 4b; Matt. xxviii. 2a.
Luke xxiv. 2; Matt. xxviii. 2b.
Matt. xxviii. 3.
Matt. xxviii. 4.
Luke xxiv. 3.
Mark xvi. 5b.
The diacritical points of the first letter must be corrected.
Matt. xxviii. 5.
Matt. xxviii. 6.
The Borg. ms. indicates the beginning of the sections, not by titles, but by “vittas ampliusculas auroque oblinitas” (Ciasca, Introduction). Ciasca indicates in the Corrigenda, opposite p. 210 of the Arabic text, where this section should begin.
Luke xxiv. 4.
Luke xxiv. 5.
Luke xxiv. 6.
Luke xxiv. 7.
Matt. xxviii. 7a.
Mark xvi. 7b; Matt. xxviii. 7c.
Possibly the translator’s style would warrant the translation as.
Luke xxiv. 8; Matt. xxviii. 8a.
Mark xvi. 8b.
John xx. 2.
John xx. 3.
John xx. 4.
Lit. hastened and preceded.