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Fragments of the Commentary of Ephrem Syrus upon the Diatessaron is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Diatessaron is a prominent Gospel harmony created by Tatian, an early Christian apologist and monk. The Diatessaron was used as the standard Gospel text in the liturgy of at least some sections of the Syrian Church for possibly up to two centuries and was quoted or alluded to by Syrian writers. This volume contains the English translation of fragments from St. Ephraim’s commentary on the...

as (p. 21) the passage where he says that Joseph was so gentle as not to expel her from the house, sed cum ea habitaret; but it even turns up in the objection made by an ideal Adoptionist interlocutor who says (p. 26) Nonne ergo conjugium sanctum est, testante Apostolo, Thorus eorum sanctum est1? This instance is the more curious, since the Cureton reading was probably intended as an Anti-Adoptionist correction. But the fact is that the reading must have acquired great prevalence, for we find traces
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