Introductory Notes

Section XII

Page 19 of 468

¹⁸⁸⁸ And all the multitude of the Gadarenes entreated him to depart from them, because that great fear took hold upon them.

[2, 3]⁸⁸⁹ But Jesus went up into the ship, and crossed, and came to his city.⁸⁹⁰ And that man from whom the devils went out entreated that he might stay with him; but⁴ Jesus sent him away, and said unto him,⁸⁹¹ Return to thy house, and make known what⁵ God hath done for thee.⁸⁹² And he went, and began to publish in Decapolis⁸⁹³ what Jesus had done for him; and they all marvelled.

⁶⁸⁹⁴ And when Jesus had crossed in the ship to that side, a great multitude received⁷ him; and they were all looking for him.⁸⁹⁵ And a man named Jairus, the chief of the⁸ synagogue, fell before the feet of Jesus,⁸⁹⁶ and besought him much, and said unto him, I have an only daughter, and she is come nigh unto death;⁸⁹⁷ but come and lay thy⁹ hand upon her, and she shall live.⁸⁹⁸ And Jesus rose, and his disciples, and they followed¹⁰ him.⁸⁹⁹ And there joined him a great multitude, and they pressed him.

[11, 12]⁹⁰⁰ And a woman, which had a flow of blood for twelve years,⁹⁰¹ had suffered much of many physicians, and spent all that she had, and was not benefited at all, but her¹³ trouble increased further.⁹⁰² And when she heard of Jesus, she came in the thronging of¹⁴ [Arabic, p. 47] the crowd behind him, and touched⁹⁰³ his garments;⁹⁰⁴ and she thought within¹⁵ herself, If I could reach to touch his garments, I should live.⁹⁰⁵ And immediately the fountain of her blood was dried; and she felt in her body that she was healed¹⁶ of her plague.⁹⁰⁶ And Jesus straightway knew within himself that power had gone out of him; and he turned to the crowd, and said, Who approached unto my garments?¹⁷⁹⁰⁷ And on their denying, all of them, Simon Cephas and those with him said unto him, Our Master, the multitudes throng thee and press thee, and sayest thou, Who approached¹⁸ unto me?⁹⁰⁸ And he said, Some one approached unto me; and I knew that¹⁹ power went forth from me.⁹⁰⁹ And that woman, when she saw that she was not hid²⁰ from him, came fearing and agitated (for she knew what had happened to her),⁹¹⁰ and fell down and worshipped him, and told, in the presence of all the people, for what²¹ reason she touched him, and how she was healed immediately.⁹¹¹ And Jesus said unto her, Be of good courage, daughter; thy faith hath made thee alive; depart in peace, and be whole from thy plague.

²²⁹¹² And while he was yet speaking, there came a man from the house of the chief of the synagogue, and said unto him, Thy daughter hath died; so trouble not the²³ teacher.⁹¹³ But Jesus heard, and said unto the father of the maid, Fear not: but believe²⁴ only, and she shall live.⁹¹⁴ And he suffered no man to go with him, except²⁵ Simon Cephas, and James, and John the brother of James.⁹¹⁵ And they reached the house of the chief of the synagogue; and he saw them agitated, weeping and wailing.²⁶⁹¹⁶ And he entered, and said unto them, Why are ye agitated and weeping? the²⁷ [Arabic, p. 48] maid hath not died, but she is sleeping.⁹¹⁷ And they laughed at him, for²⁸ they knew that she had died.⁹¹⁸ And he put every man forth without, and took the father of the maid, and her mother, and Simon, and James, and John, and²⁹ entered into the place where the maid was laid.⁹¹⁹ And he took hold of the hand of the maid, and said unto her, Maid, arise.⁹²⁰ And her spirit returned, and straightway³⁰ she arose and walked:⁹²¹ and she was about twelve years of age.⁹²² And he commanded³¹ that there should be given to her something to eat.⁹²³ And her father wondered greatly:³² and he warned them that they should tell no man what had happened.⁹²⁴ And this report spread in all that land.

³³⁹²⁵ And when Jesus crossed over from there, there joined him two blind men, crying³⁴ out, and saying, Have mercy on us, thou son of David.⁹²⁶ And when he came to the house, those two blind men came to him: and Jesus said unto them, Believe ye³⁵ that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, our Lord.⁹²⁷ Then he touched⁹²⁸³⁶ their eyes, and said, As ye have believed, it shall be unto you.⁹²⁹ And immediately their eyes were opened. And Jesus forbade them, and said, See that no man know.³⁷⁹³⁰ But they went out and published the news in all that land.

³⁸⁹³¹ And when Jesus went out, they brought to him a dumb man having a devil.³⁹⁹³² And on the going out of the devil that dumb man spake. And the multitudes marvelled, and said, It was never so seen in Israel

⁴⁰⁹³³ And Jesus was going about in all the cities and in the villages, and teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease⁴¹ [Arabic, p. 49] and sickness; and many followed him.⁹³⁴ And when Jesus saw the multitudes, he had compassion on them, for they were wearied and scattered,⁹³⁵ as sheep⁴² that have no shepherd.⁹³⁶ And he called his twelve disciples, and gave them power and⁴³ much authority over all devils and diseases;⁹³⁷ and sent them two and two, that they⁴⁴ might proclaim the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.⁹³⁸ And he charged them, and said, Walk not in the way of the heathen, nor enter into the cities of the Samaritans.⁹³⁹ [45, 46]⁹⁴⁰ Go especially unto the sheep that are lost of the sons of Israel.⁹⁴¹ And⁴⁷ when ye go, proclaim and say, The kingdom of heaven is come near.⁹⁴² And heal the sick, and cleanse the lepers, and cast out the devils: freely ye have received, freely [48, 49] give.⁹⁴³ Get you not gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses;⁹⁴⁴ and take nothing for the way, except a staff only; nor bag, nor bread; neither shall ye have two tunics,⁵⁰ nor shoes, nor staff, but be shod with sandals;⁹⁴⁵ for the labourer is worthy of his food.⁵¹⁹⁴⁶ And whatever city or village ye enter, inquire who is worthy in it, and there be until [52, 53] ye go out.⁹⁴⁷ And when ye enter into the house, ask for the peace of the house: and if the house is worthy, your peace shall come upon it;⁹⁴⁸ but if it is not worthy, your⁵⁴ peace shall return unto you.⁹⁴⁹ And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your sayings, when ye go out from that house, or from that village, shake off the dust⁵⁵ [Arabic, p. 50] that is under your feet against them for a testimony.⁹⁵⁰ And verily I say unto you, To the land of Sodom and Gomorrah there shall be rest in the day of judgement, rather than to that city.

Notes

1
Parechein mikropsuchian, perhaps "causes you ill-feeling." The translation of Serapion's letter with this note is taken from Mr. Armitage Robinson's edition of the gospel.
888
a.
889
.
890
.
4
I know no other instance of stauriskein.
891
a.
5
cf. , where Syr. Pesch. reads: "They say, These bodies shall not remain on the cross, because the sabbath dawneth."
892
.
893
Lit. the ten cities.
6
The text here is corrupt: for epesanto I have provisionally read epesan te.
894
a; b.
7
For autos horas we must read autes horas (cf. Clem., Hom., xx., 16); aute is the equivalent in later Greek literature of ekeine, as in the modern tongue (cf. Lc. x. 7, 21, and xii. 12; || ekeine, Mt., Mc.)
895
a.
8
I have ventured to substitute meta, "together with" (cf. ), for kata, "down upon." Dr. Swete, however, keeps kata, and interprets it as "against," i.e., to guard the sepulchre against.
896
a.
897
b.
9
The form of the question in the Greek suggests a negative answer.
898
.
10
[cf. John passim.]
899
b.
900
.
901
.
13
[cf. .]
902
.
14
[cf. ; .]
903
See § 8, 17, note.
904
.
15
[cf. .]
905
.
16
[cf. .]
906
.
17
For further explanation of the method followed see 20.
907
b.
18
See notes to § 7, 47, and § 52, 36, of the present translation.
908
.
19
See below, 12, (2).
909
a.
20
See also below, 6, and 20.
910
b; c.
21
Bibl. Or., i., 619.
911
; b.
22
Mai, Vet. script. nova. collect., iv., 14.
912
.
23
cf. Zahn, Forschungen, i., 294 ff.
913
.
24
See below, § 7, 47, note, and § 52, 36, note.
914
.
25
See below, § 28, 43, note.
915
.
26
See below, foot-notes, passim.
916
.
27
The first leaf bears a more pretentious Latin inscription, quoted by Ciasca, p. vi.
917
.
28
Can this be a misprint for 95?
918
b.
29
See below, 13.
919
.
920
a.
30
He does not state, in so many words, that the list is absolutely exhaustive.
921
b.
922
b.
31
See, e.g., below, § 13, 42, note, and § 14, 43, note.
923
.
32
See the valuable article of Guidi, "Le traduzioni degli Evangelii in arabo e in etiopico" (Atti della R. Accademia dei Lincei; Classe di Scienze Morali, Storiche e filologiche. Serie Quarta, 1888, Parte Prima—Memorie, pp. 5-38). Some of his results are briefly stated in Scrivener, A Plain Introd. to the Crit. of the N.T., 4th ed., ii., 162.
924
.
33
cf.the foot-notes passim, e.g., § 13, 14, § 14, 24.
925
.
34
See below, note to Subscription.
926
.
35
See a glaring case in § 52, 11.
927
.
928
Lit. went forward to (cf. § 8, 17, note).
36
The references to the readings of the Diatessaron in Ibn-at-Tayyib's own commentary on the gospels (see next note) are remarkably impersonal for one who had made or was to make a translation of it.
929
.
37
A specially important part of the general question is this, What are the mutual relations of the following: (1) a supposed version of at least Matthew and John made from the Syriac by Ibn-at-Tayyib, mentioned by Ibn-al-Assal in the Preface to his scholarly recension of the gospels (ms. numbered Or. 3382 in Brit. Mus., folio 384b) and used by him in determining his text; (2) the gospel text interwoven with the commentary of Ibn-at-Tayyib on the gospels, a commentary which De Slane says the author wrote in Syriac and then translated into Arabic; (3) our present work. Of mss. testifying to No. 1 we have some dating from the time of Ibn-al-Assal himself; of No. 2 we have, in addition to others, an eleventh-century ms. in Paris, described by De Slane (catalogue No. 85) as being "un volume dépareillé du ms. original de l'ouvrage"; of No. 3 we have of course the Vatican and Borgian mss. What is the mutual relation of these texts; were any two of them identical? The Brit. Mus. ms. of the second has many points of contact with the third, but is dated 1805 a.d. Does the older Paris ms. stand more or less closely related? Did Ibn-at-Tayyib himself really translate any or all of these texts, or did he simply select or edit them? Space does not permit us to point out, far less to discuss, the various possibilities.
930
.
38
The text is given below in full at its proper place.
931
.
39
Prof. Gottheil, indeed, announced in 1892 in the Journal of Biblical Literature (vol. xi., pt. i., p. 71) that he had been privately informed of the existence of a complete copy of the Syriac Diatessaron. Unfortunately, however, as he has kindly informed me, he has reluctantly come to the conclusion that the ms. in question, which is not yet accessible, is "nothing more than the commentary of Ishodad" mentioned in the text. A similar rumor lately circulated probably originated simply in the pamphlet of Goussen mentioned in the next note. S. Bäumer, on the other hand, in his article, "Tatians Diatessaron, seine bisher. Lit. u. die Reconstruction des Textes nach einer neuentdeckten Handschrift" (Literarischer Handweiser, 1890, 153-169) which the present writer has not been able to see, perhaps refers simply to the Borgian ms.
932
.
40
Attention was called to these by Profs. Isaac H. Hall and R. J. H. Gottheil (Journ. of Bibl. Lit., x., 153 ff.; xi., 68 ff.); then by Prof. J. R. Harris (Contemp. Rev., Aug., 1895, p. 271 ff., and, more fully, Fragments of the Com. of Ephr. Syr. on the Diatess., London, 1895) and by Goussen (Studia Theologica, fasc. i., Lips., 1895).
933
.
41
Prof. Harris promises an edition of this commentary.
934
.
935
Lit. cast away (cf. meanings of Syriac word).
42
Harris, Fragments, p. 14, where the Syriac text is quoted.
936
a; b.
43
Bib. Or., ii., 159 f. Most of them are repeated again by Bar Hebræus (d. 1286), although some confusion is produced by his interweaving some phrases from Eusebius of Cæsarea. (Bib. Or., i., 57 f., and a longer quotation in English in Contemp. Rev., Aug., 1895, p. 274 f.)
937
.
44
Lagarde's statement (Nachrichten von der Königl. Gesellsch. der Wiss., etc., zu Göttingen, 1891, No. 4, p. 153) that a ms. had been discovered, appears to have been unfounded. Prof. Rahlfs of Göttingen kindly tells me that he believes this is so.
938
.
939
§ 34, 40, shows that this Arabic form may be so translated.
940
.
941
.
47
The two Armenian mss. are dated a.d. 1195.
942
.
943
f.
944
b; .
50
Edited by Ernestus Ranke, Marb. and Lips., 1868.
945
c; a.
51
For other forms of the Diatessaron, of no critical importance, see S. Hemphill, The Diatessaron of Tatian (London, 1888), Appendix D and the refs. there.
946
d.
947
.
948
; .
54
Nachrichten von der Königl. Gesellsch. der Wiss., etc., March 17, 1886, No. 4, p. 151 ff.
949
a; b.
55
See notes to § 1, 81, and § 4, 29.
950
.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 9, ed. Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe (1885–96). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.