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The Diatessaron of Tatian
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[2696] The Syriac versions have the.
[2697] Matt. 21.9; Luke 19.38.
[2699] Or, and, Blessed.
[2700] The Arabic has to, but it probably represents the Syriac text with the meaning given above.
[2701] Luke xix. 38:38c.
[2703] Lit. the heart (or, pith) of the palm. The word pith, which occurs also in the Æhiopic version (Ezek. xxvii. 25; Jubilees, ch. 16) and in Ibn-at-Tayyib’s exposition, though not in the Brit. Mus. gospel text, is perhaps used here of the inner branches from its resemblance to the post-biblical Hebrew word employed in accounts of the Feast of Tabernacles.
[2709] Lit. are found, a rendering due to the Syriac.
[2712] So Ciasca’s text, following Vat. ms. The other ms. has drag, which by restoring a diacritical point to the third radical would give destroy, the reading of the Syriac versions. Ibn-at-Tayyib’s Commentary has hide.
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