05-14-2004, 05:58 PM
Quote:Aphrahat expounded on Peshitta readings from memory, called Targums. A large percentage of the time, as my examples show, it happends to be a word-for-word match (against Old Scratch.)
Other times, they match nothing at all. This is where Aphrahat is paraphrasing.
But he is ok and Ephrem is not? He is doing exactly the same thing as Ephrem is, yet Ephrem is a westener, so he can't be a difinitive source.
Since Aphrahat is doing the same thing as Ephrem, I will still submit that Ephrems commentary is valid, the greek fragment is genuine, and stick by it as proof against inscription by some wayword monk on a peshitta harmony.
End of story.