Mar Aphrahat and Luqa 15:8

[Paul Younan]

Shlama Akhi Yuri,

In Mar Aphrahat's Demonstrations on Faith, we find the following quote from Luqa 15:8:

[font=Estrangelo (V1.1)]hl ty0d Ftn0 Yh 0dy0
Jwhnm dx dbwtw Nyzwz 0rs9
Fyb 0mxw 0gr4 0rhnm fw[/font]

"What woman, who has ten coins and loses one of them, and (Waw Proclitic) not does light a lamp and sweep (Khama) the house..."

Now let's see how the Peshitta and Old Scratch read:

Peshitta:
[font=Estrangelo (V1.1)]hl ty0d Ftn0 Yh 0dy0
Jwhnm dx dbwtw Nyzwz 0rs9
Fyb 0mxw 0gr4 0rhnm fw[/font]
"What woman, who has ten coins and loses one of them, and (Waw Proclitic) not does light a lamp and sweep (Khama) the house..." (exactly 100% the same as Mar Aphrahat)

Old Scratch Sinaiticus:
[font=Estrangelo (V1.1)]hl ty0d Ftn0 Yh 0dy0
Jwhnm dx db0tw Nyzwz 0rs9
Fyb 0mxw 0gr4 0rhnm f[/font]
"What woman, who has ten coins and loses one of them, not does light a lamp and sweep (Khama) the house..."

Old Scratch Cureton:
[font=Estrangelo (V1.1)]hl ty0d Ftn0 Yh 0dy0
Jwhnm dx dbwtw Nyzwz 0rs9
Fyb 04nkw 0gr4 0rhnm f[/font]
"What woman, who has ten coins and loses one of them, not does light a lamp and organizes (kansha) the house..."

As you can see, Akhi, the reading from Mar Aphrahat is 100% the same as the Peshitta. Both Old Scratch readings differ, however, in the following important ways:

• (1) Old Scratch (s) has the imperfect of the PEAL [font=Estrangelo (V1.1)]db0t[/font], whereas Mar Aphrahat uses [font=Estrangelo (V1.1)]dbwt[/font] just like the Peshitta
  (2) Both Old Scratch (s) and © are missing the Waw Proclitic, included in Aphrahat and the Peshitta
  (3) Old Scratch © uses a completely different word, [font=Estrangelo (V1.1)]04nk [/font]for "sweep~organize", instead of the word employed by both the Peshitta and Mar Aphrahat - [font=Estrangelo (V1.1)]0mx[/font]
  

So what do you think here, Akhi - should we believe the "scholarly consensus" about a long-missing Diatesseron.....or what? (it sure as heck ain't Old Scratch Mar Aphrahat is using!) <!-- s --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/happy.gif" alt="" title="Happy" /><!-- s -->