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Excerpt from S. Ephraim's Quotations From the Gospel, Vol. 7: Collected and Arranged
The relation of the Peshitta to the Evangelion da-mepharreshe and of both to the Diatessaron has been a subject of controversy ever Since the publication of the Curetonian text. According to Dr Hort the analogy between the Syriac and the Latin versions is complete. There was an Old Latin' Version or Versions current in the West, the mss of which differed widely one from the other. Late in the 4th century, S. Jerome was commissioned by P0pe Damasus to put an end to the confusion by preparing a Revised Version corrected from the Greek. The Gospels were published in 383 ad, and after a struggle this Revised Version superseded its predecessors. Dr Hort contended that the same thing must have happened in the East, and that the Curetonian (the only MS of the Evangelion da-mepharreshe published during his lifetime) bore the same relation to the Peshitta that Codex Vercellensis (a) or Codex Veronensis (b) bears to the Latin Vulgate. No one supposes that S. Jerome used either of the particular mss which we call a and b as the basis of his revision; but a and b were mss of the same class as those which S. Jerome revised by means of his Greek mss. Similarly the Curetonian ms, according to Dr Hort, was one of the same class as that which underlies the Peshitta text of the Gospels.
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