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Excerpt from The Earliest Life of Christ Ever Compiled From the Four Gospels, Being the Diatessaron of Tatian (Circ 160) Literally Translated From the Arabic Version and Containing the Four Gospels Woven Into One Story
The ms. Which reached the Borgian Museum in this singular way, has been the means of explaining the difficulties which prevented the general acceptance of the Vatican ms. As Tatian's work; for, although ms. XIV. Closed with a distinct statement that it contained the Diatessaron of Tatian, grave doubts rested upon this assertion (which, it was thought, might only express the Opinion of the transcriber), because the contents differed in some important respects from those of the Diatessaron as described by some of the Fathers. In the first place, ms. XIV. Contained the genealogies plainly declared by Theodoret to have been absent from the 00pies he found in use in his diocese. In the Borgian ms, however, these genealogies are absent from the body of the work, but are put together as an appendix bearing the title, The Book of the Generation of Jesus. It follows that the Borgian ms. Represents an older and more faithful copy of a work which originally did not contain the genealogies at all, but to which they were added in course of time, first of all in an appendix as an acknowledged addition to the original, and then eventu ally as a part of the text itself. Another obstacle to the acceptance of ms. XIV. Was, that it began with the opening words of S. Mark's Gospel instead of those of S. John's, as stated by early writers. Here also the Borgian copy solved the mystery; for it had S. Mark's words: The Gospel of Jesus, the Son of the living God, separated from the main body of the work, as a title, the work itself commencing with.
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